The next day as that Muslim village set out to confront the crusader army, a young boy ran through the gathering and stood at the hooves of Abu Qudaamah’s horse.  “I ask you by Allah to allow me to join the army.” Some of the elder fighters laughed at the boy.  “The horses will trample you,” they said.  But Abu Qudaamah looked down into his eyes as he asked again, “I ask you by Allah, let me join.”  Abu Qudaamah then said, “On one condition, if you are killed you will take me with you to Jannah amongst those you will be allowed to intercede for.”  That young boy smiled.  “It’s a promise.”

When the two armies met and the fighting intensified, the young boy on the back of Abu Qudaamah’s horse asked, “I ask you by Allah to give me 3 arrows.”  “You’ll lose them!”  The boy repeated, “I ask you by Allah to give me them.”  Abu Qudaamah gave him the arrows and the boy took aim. “Bismillaah!” The arrow flew and killed a Roman. “Bismillaah!” The second arrow flew, killing a second Roman. “Bismillaah!” The third arrow flew, killing a third Roman. An arrow then struck the boy in the chest – knocking him off the horse.  Abu Qudaamah jumped down to his side, reminding the boy in his final breaths, “Don’t forget the promise!” The boy reached into his pocket, extracted a pouch and said, “Please return this to my mother.”  “Who’s your mother?” asked Abu Qudaamah. “The women that gave you the braids yesterday.”

Think about this Muslimah.  How did she reach this level of Taqwa where she would sacrifice her hair when today other women do the same to imitate Kafir icons, and her son when other women would die so long as their son stayed home.  Indeed, she spent her life in the obedience of Allah, and when exam time came, she passed. Not only did she pass herself, but her children shone with that same beauty of Iman, children that she herself raised.

Very often – and perhaps in our times when we have forgotten much of the Sunnah – the lectures, khutbahs, and talks are all directed to the Muslim men.  We forget that from the Hady – guidance and way – of Rasul Allah – sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam – was that he would allocate a specific day of the week to teach the women. Women would come up to him in Hajj, in the street, even in his home and ask him questions about the Deen.  At the Eid Salah, after addressing the men, he would take Bilal and go to the women section and address the women.  Allah revealed an entire Surah by the name of Surah An-Nisa – the Women.  And another by the name of – Maryam.  And a third by the name of al Mujaadalah – the women who pleads.  It is in enlivening this Sunnah that today this speech shall be addressed to the believing women, al-Mu’minaat.

Dear Sister, Dear Mother, Dear Daughter.  Everyone is looking for happiness and fun, and I am sure you are not excluded.  Where is that happiness and fun though?  And where and when do you want that happiness?  Do you want happiness, do you want to have `fun’ in this life at the expense of the hereafter?  Or is it in the hereafter, when you meet Allah that you want to be happy?

Every where you go you shall find a swarm of people and media and culture swearing to you that happiness is the happiness of the Dunya. Is it really happiness though?  On the day of Repayment, Allah shall take the most `happiest’ kafir of the Dunya and dip him in Jahannam – Hellfire.  Then he shall ask him, “Have you ever seen any happiness?” The Kafir will say, “Never!”

Nay, the happiness is only the happiness of the hereafter no matter what happens in this Dunya.  Allah shall bring on the Day of Repayment the most tested human and dip him in Jannah – Paradise.  He shall then ask him, “Have you ever seen sadness?”  And that person shall say, “Never!”

And don’t think that this happiness and fun is exclusive to the hereafter.  It is very much tied to this life as well.  Listen and understand the words of Allah:

Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while he (or she) is a true believer verily to him We will give a good life (in this world with respect, contentment and lawful provision), and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best of what they used to do (i.e. Paradise in the Hereafter). – Surah AnNahl (16/97)

Dear Sister, you have to understand that you or anyone may enter Hellfire!  By Allah, we are not better than Fatimah, the daughter of Rasul Allah – sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam.  And he said to her, “O Fatimah the daughter of Muhammad, Ask me whatever you wish from my wealth, for I shall avail you nothing to Allah.”  Meaning that it doesn’t matter if you’re my daughter, if you don’t work for Jannah, saying to Allah that my father is so and so will not help you in anyway.

Islam is filled with many Mu’minahs that completed their Taqwa of Allah.  When the other girls put up posters of kafir singers and kafir athletes and kafir actresses, you should put up posters in your heart of Fatimah and many other Mu’minahs.

Aasiyah, the wife of Fir’own. Her Eeman in Allah thrived under the shadow of someone that said, “I am your Lord, Most High!” When news reached Fir’own of his wife’s Eeman he beat her and commanded his guards to beat her. They took her out in the scalding noon heat, tied her hands and feet and beat her perpetually. Who did she turn to? She turned to Allah! She prayed, “My lord, build for me a home with you in Paradise and save me from Fir’own and his deeds and save me from the transgressive people.”

It was narrated that when she said this, the sky opened for her and she saw her home in Paradise. She smiled. The guards watched astonished – she’s being tortured and she smiles? Frustrated, Fir’own commanded a boulder to be brought and dropped on Aasiyah, to crush her to death. But Allah took her soul before the boulder was brought and she became an example for all the believing men and women till the end of time:

[And Allah has set forth an example for those who believe: the wife of Fir'own (Pharaoh) – when she said, "My Lord, Build for me a home with You in Paradise, and save me from Fir'own and his deeds, and save me from the transgressive-disbelieving people.] -Tahreem 66/11

When we talk about Jihad and Shuhadaa’ – martyrs, do you know who the first Muslim in Islam to be killed in the path of Allah was?  It was Summayah, the mother of Ammar.  When Abu Jahl heard of her Islam and her husband Yaasir and her son Ammar, he whipped them all and beat them. So much so, that Rasul Allah would pass by them as they went through this test of their Iman and would say to them, “Be patient O family of Yaasir, for you have a date set (when you shall enter) Jannah!”

As Abu Jahl beat Sumayyah one day, she refused to recant her Deen, something that enraged Abu Jahl. He took a spear as she lay on the burning sand, looking up to the sky, and he speared her through her midsection.  She was the first of her family and the entire Ummah to meet Allah as a Martyr.

Dear Sister, our role models come from the Quran.  You may have heard the story of the boy and the  king. When the entire village became Muslim by the death of that young boy, the king ordered that an enormous fire be kindled and that all those who would not recant their religion be burnt alive.  A Mu’minah, stood with her baby over the fire. She looked at her baby, and seeking her child’s weakness and innocence, she considered turning her back.  The baby said to her, “What are you waiting for mother.  Go forward for you are on the truth!”  She nodded.  Then with her baby in hand she was pushed to her death.

[And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of all Praise!- * Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness to all things.]. – Surah AlBuruj, 8,9

And dear sister, your role models come to you from today.  As her son tells us, a senior women in a Muslim land decided that all the vanity that normally happens in the gatherings of women was not for her.  She turned to Salah and praying at night, and in her old age, she found herself calling to her so  one night from her prayer room.  He son says, “I came in and she was in Sajda saying that she was paralysed!” Her son took her to the doctors and she began a cycle of rehabilitation, but there was little hope. She then commanded her son to take her back home, take her back to her prayer room, take her back to that Sajdah.  As she prayed to Allah in her sajdah, the night came when she called to her son.  “Astawdi’ukallaah alladhee laa yadee’u wa daa’i'uh – I leave you in the trust of Allah, and whenever something is left in Allah’s trust it is never lost.”  She passed away in her sajdah.  Her muscles froze in that position and so they had to wash her body as she was in Sajdah. The prayed Janazah for her as her body was in sajdah. The carried her to the grave yard as her body was in Sajdah.

The buried her as she was in Sajdah.  And the Prophet said that we shall all be resurrected on what we died on, she shall be resurrected on the day of judgement in Sajdah to Allah – Jalla Jalaaluhu wa taqaddasat asmaa’uhu – because that it how she lived and died.

Part II

There are many other stories that we know about of powerful believing mothers, wives and sisters and many, many that Allah only knows about. Whenever a halaqah is going on, the Muslim women outnumber the men. At the American Open University, (www.open-university.edu) the overwhelming majority of students are Muslim women.  Go to an Islamic teachers/schools conference, attend a lecture and you shall see the mismatch of sisters to brothers.  Sometimes it is sad to see all these brothers lacking the motivation that many Muslimahs have.  But if there is a beautiful sign in all this, it is that – in sha’ Allah ta’ala – those sisters are going to raise an army of believing men and women in the coming generation. WAllahu akbar!

When Imam Ahmad was still young, his father died.  He would tell his students of the work his mother went through in raising him, and he would pray for her.  In the cold Baghdad nights, she would wake long before him to warm the water so that her son Ahmad could make wudu for Fajr.  Then she would wrap him in blankets, herself cloaked in her Jilbaab, and guide him through the dark, cold alleys to reach the main Masjid, long before Fajr so that her son could get a good seat in class.  Her son Ahmad – at that age in grade 2 or 3 – would sit all day long studying Quran and Sunnah, and she would wait for him to finish so that she could drop him home safely.  At the age of 16, she prepared money and food for him and told him, “Travel for your search of knowledge.”  He left for Makkah and Madinah and many other places and et many great scholars.  She raised Ahmad to become one of the four greatest Imams in Islam.

Dear sister, after all this, ask a non-Muslim what it is that he wants from you?  Does he want you to be liberated?  Liberated from what? From Allah and his Messenger?  From the Quran and the Sunnah?  From Jannah?  From this deen that Allah chose for you?

And what is he going to give you in return?  Happinness?  By Allah, he does not own any happiness to give.  Is he going to give you love and protection from punishment in the grave and from the gateke pers of hellfire and from death?  Why is it that they want to liberate young beautiful women?  Why don’t they liberate the seniors?  Why don’t they liberate the indigenous?  Why don’t they liberate the inmates?  Why is their target audience a young and skinny and tall women (their definition of beauty) between the age of 13 – 28?  And why is their first call for you to take off your Hijab?

Remember that friend – if you consider him so – carefully, for – without any doubt, by Allah – he shall be your bitterest enemy on the day of Repayment:

[Friends on that day will be foes, one to another - except the Righteous] – Surah Zukhruf (43/67)

One Kafirah summed up exactly what they think of women, “It’s not who you are, it’s what you wear and what you look like!”  And listen to Fabian, a french `model’ (of what?), as she spit on the fashion industry. “Fashion houses made me into a mannequin, a wooden idol.  The mission: to manipulate hearts and alter minds.  I learnt how to be worthless, nothing on the inside, cold.  We lived in a world of filth in all that filth means.”

When the Prophet – sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam – stood on the plain of Arafah and gave his farewell speech he said to the Ummah, “Treat the women kindly!”  History records that in Europe in the same year, at the same time that Islam was saying this, the Christian clergy were arguing hether a women was a human or an animal!  Those clergymen are the ancestors of the Kuffar that now want to `liberate’ you.

There is much more than can be said.  I shall conclude with the advice of Rasul Allah – sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam – to every Muslim mother, daughter, and wife: “If the women prays her five (Salah), fasts her month (of Ramadan), protects herself (from committing Zina), and listens to her husband, it will be said to her, `from any door you wish, enter Paradise!”  Sister, that is where you want to be.

[O ye who believe! give your response to Allah and His Messenger, when He calls you to that which shall give you life; and know that Allah cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He to Whom ye shall (all) be gathered.] – Surah Anfal 8/24

Allah and His Messenger are calling you to life.  Dear sister, reply!

Source

The Seven Levels for the Total Annihilation of Humans

Level One: Shirk and Kufr (Associating partners with Allah and disbelief)
This is the highest level. When a person reaches the highest level, they actually become part of the army of Iblees. This is for people who have reached this level after turning their backs on the truth in arrogance or heedlessness after knowing it or hearing about it. This can be made analogous to how vampires or werewolves work. When a vampire or werewolf bites someone, the person who is bitten turns over to the other side. When Iblees is able to take a person up to Level One, they themselves become one of the devils, and they live their lives pulling people away from the truth.

Level Two: Bid’a (Innovation)
We would think that the Major Sins would be the second level, but it isn’t, it’s innovation. This is because a person can commit a sin and repent from it but someone who is engaged in innovation they actually think that what they are doing is something that will bring them closer to Allah. They don’t see it as something bad, and they would have no reason to seek Allah’s forgiveness from it and thus they keep engaging in it assuming it to be good.

An example of this is the people of Noah or Nooh (alayhis Salaam). What these people did was they started building idols of their pious, not because they wanted to worship them but because they thought they would be able to give them respect in such a way and that would remind them of their righteousness and piety, so they themselves could become righteous or pious. The people who built the idols themselves didn’t worship them, but once they died, the following generations ended up taking them as an object of veneration and worship.

One of the keys to avoid falling in this level or get out of this level is by being truthful to oneself in what one does, being sincere in following Allah and the Messenger and following the Qur’an and Sunnah of the Prophet (salAllahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam). Instead of relying on others or following what others are saying blindly, asking first what does the Quran and Sunnah say and then if it is in agreement then following them?

Level Three: alKabaair (The Major Sins)
This level is for people who fall into the major sins like murder, fornication, etc. Of the people that Shaytaan works on the hardest to commit the major sins are the scholars or the people in the public eye or respect. These people don’t necessarily have to be Muslim, but rather just people that are looked up to by the general public. One example is the evangelical preacher Jimmy Swaggart, even though he falls in Level One, nevertheless his example is a good one in this category. He was preacher, a public figure, and he committed adultery and when people found out, he went on television and told the people that he was sorry and God has forgiven him. And later on he did it again. Think about how many people after seeing this went out themselves and committed zina (unlawful sexual intercourse)? What do you think his followers were thinking? They probably went out committing adultery or fornication thinking, “If someone of such high caliber and a preacher like Jimmy Swaggart can do this what about me?”

Level Four: Minor Sins
If you are Muslim and you’ve protected yourself from all the above levels then you will fall here. There are a total of seven levels and we are at level four. May Allah protect us from all the levels! The Prophet (salAllahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam) once said, “Beware of sins that people belittle. For verily, the example of people who do that, is the example of people who came upon a valley at nighttime and they need to start a fire. So one person goes and gets a small piece of wood and another person does the same until everyone does that and they all gather wood and light a fire and a huge fire goes up and they cook their food.” The Prophet (salAllahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam) is comparing this to someone who keeps engaging in minor sins, and he continues, “Whenever the person that engages in minor sins and enjoys them and keeps engaging in them, it will eventually pile up and destroy him.” [Muslim]

These are minor sins, and a point to note is that sins like backbiting and so on are not even Minor Sins, rather they are from the Major Sins, and someone who engages in them would fall in Level three.

Level Five: Busying with Mubahaat (Permissible things)
If Shaytaan fails to make a person fall into one of the above four levels then he will try to get them to busy their time with all the permissible things. An example of this is football. Whether it is in the USA or UK, it’s still football. It might be a different game but it’s still the same idea. So a person who enjoys football, he is so into it, he watches every game, he gets the season tickets, he reads the newspaper in the morning about what they said about the game, and after he comes out the masjid (mosque) he is still concerned about what the score is, or who won, he looks on his cell phone and goes home on the internet looking up scores and points etc. And when Ramadhaan time comes and he prays taraweeh (Night prayer during Ramdhaan) and Laytul Qadr (Night of power during Ramdhaan)he is making dua asking Allah, “Ya Rabbi! Let the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl! Ya Rahman! Ya Raheem!” And some people might hear this and laugh, but this is what is happening and it happens all the time. People might spend 20 years of their life sleeping and another 20 years engaging in the permissible things that don’t bring any benefit to them.

A good example that Muhammad alShareef gave about his community in Canada was the masjid encouraging the people to play basketball. People would say lets play basketball, and encourage it because it will lead people to Islam and Allah and the Messenger. He decided that he was going to go memorize the Qur’an instead at a Dar ulUloom school, it took him two years and he finished it. And when he came back and saw the people at the masjid, they were still playing basketball. They were really good, and they almost got into the university teams in their respective school. They then finished their university studies and got married. On Sundays at the masjid they can still manage to play a pretty good game of hoops. But they knew no Qur’an. If you ask them to lead the prayer, they cant, do they know even 5 Surahs, they don’t, and do they know Arabic, they don’t. If you ask them what they have done with their lives, they say they played basketball.

Level Six: Faadil wa Mafdool (Engaging in the less virtuous things, when more virtuous things can easily be done)
An amazing example can be given, it almost always happens, never fails. During Ramadhaan you often see people sitting by the wall. People come in and see these people, and ask what they are doing. They ask them why they come to the masjid during taraweeh and they are sitting in the back not praying. They don’t want to be embarrassed, so they open up the Quran and start following it. Do they ever open the Qur’an outside of Ramdhaan, probably not. This is a classic trick of Shaytaan where he tells you to engage in something good when something better can be done at the same time or with a similar effort. And most of the time another person comes and sits by this person with the Qur’an open and says lets go outside for a little bit. And he says “I’m trying to follow the Imam, shhhh!” Then the other person says, “Let us go for a little bit, there are donuts outside.” Then the person decides he’ll go outside for only 2 minutes, and he’s gone. He ends up talking to people and playing basketball outside the entire time.

Those people that are very concerned and focused on the Halaal/Dhabeehah meat issue would fall in here. Someone will have a girlfriend, they are engaged in riba(interest/usury), or do all kinds of evil, but they eat dhabeehah (ritually slaughtered) meat, then they think everything is alright.

Level Seven: Shaytaan’s Army of Humans and Devils
A person who is protected from all the levels, they would fall into this category. One of the people that would fall into this category is Umar (radiAllahu anhu). The Prophet (salAllahu ‘alayhiw a Sallam) said “If Umar would take a path to walk, then Shaytaan would take another path.” If Shaytaan can’t get to someone or get them to one of the other levels, then he will raise hell from his army of men and jinn in order to cause harm and destroy that person. Shaytaan succeeded in this plan with Umar (radiAllahu anhu) because he was killed by Abu Lu’lu’ alMajoosee. Abu Lu’lu’ was a fire-worshipper, he hid in the masjid before Fajr salaah (Dawn Prayer) with a poisoned dagger waiting for Umar (radiAllahu anhu). When Umar (radiAllahu anhu) came to lead the salaah for Fajr, he came out and attacked Umar (radiAllahu anhu) while he was praying. Shaytaan was at level seven with Umar (radiAllahu anhu) and if you can get to that level then you will be tested like you’ve never been tested before.

May Allah protect us from Shaytaan, the accursed one! May Allah protect us from evil of others and ourselves, give us the ability to do good deeds, have mercy on us, and forgive our sins!

Muhammad alShareef
Part 1: 5 Symptoms of the Weakness of Īmān
Part 2: 5 Reasons for the Weakness of Īmān
Part 3: 5 Solutions for the Weakness of Īmān

Ali Tamimi
Part 4: Intro to Innovations in Purification of Soul
Part 5: Innovations in Purification of Soul in Beliefs
Part 6: Innovations in Purification of Soul in Acts of Worship

WORK TIME: Approx. 1 hrs

FINAL PROJECT TIME: 4min. 26sec.

CAMERA: Sony HDR-UX10

EDITED WITH: Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 (on Dell XPS420 with 4GB RAM)

Leaving your legacy through the Muslim youth. This is the third in a series of speeches given by representatives of FAYM (Florida Association of Young Muslims). This post will be more personal as it is me, Jawaad Ahmad Khan, who gave the speech. My brother taped it from his seat (which was right next to the speakers). Because it was my speech, I can also talk about the actual content of the speech.

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT:

I kind of received the task of giving this speech last minute. The person who originally had to do it had to drop out at the final moment due to scheduling issues. So, I had about two days to prepare this speech. I really only spent about two hours on the Friday of the talk. I was given a sheet of suggested talking points (filled with stories of sahaba, hadith and qur’anic ayaat). I tried at first to make my speech like an anecdote. Here’s what it would’ve been like: “There once was a sixteen-year-old kid who volunteered to die. A man was going to be killed and this kid decided that he was going to die instead…This boy was none other than ‘Ali (r) who went into the Prophet’s bed to prevent him from being killed. Would you not like to be like that youth?” That’s basically the premise of it. A dramatic, mysterious story and then revealing it. I couldn’t find a proper way to tell the whole story mysteriously, so I decided to stop it. The next thing I did was review one of my favorite lectures by Muhammad Alshareef, Leaving a Legacy. I took some ideas and points through that lecture, along with the previous speeches, and came up with the above.

SET-UP:

It was a bit different because I wasn’t personally taping, but my brother did. We didn’t realize that the talk was going to be after Maghrib salah, so I had to rush and review as quickly as I could and my brother brought out the camera and taped it without the tripod. To be honest, his shot was more stable in his hand than my shots were  while they were on a tripod. When I told him that he said, “Veteran” (as in he’s older, and I’m still young).

EDITING:

I’ve been following the same trend. Inserting some b-roll footage, and then zooming in the main shot, then switching between the main shot and the zoomed in shot. Another thing I wanted to point out was that this Masjid’s microphone was exceptionally clear (no reverb or noise), mainly because it was a small masjid. Alhamdulillah some of the best audio I’ve worked with from a live event.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

Alhamdulillah, I feel it was a good talk. Do you? No? Yes? See the next line:

YOUR FINAL THOUGHTS:

Whoa! That’s right, YOU get to talk. All you gots to do is leave a comment and let me know if you love or hate the video. Write ‘video’ if you want to see more videos being produced, so I know you’re reading this.

Tell others, cuz I’m your brother, from the same mother (Hawaa bro, Adam’s our dad too ):

MYM has compiled the following available videos from YouTube into an organized collection to make it easier for one to find each day’s videos. We pray that these videos prove to be useful for all. Ameen…

Day 3 – Fasting Makes Me Stronger!
Day 4 – Perfection
Day 5 – Paradise is a Place on Earth
Day 6 – Hellfire
Day 7 – Someone’s watching me
Day 8 – I’ll do it when I feel like it. Not.
Day 9 – A Balancing Act
Day 10 – To go up, you must go down
Day 11 – Keeping Hope Alive
Day 12 – In God We Trust
Day 14 – Skip it
Day 15 – The Eman Rush Zone
Day 16 – Stress – Thy name is Ingratitude
Day 17 – Abundance – Thy Name is Shukr
Day 18 – Fear of Allah’s Anger
Day 19 – Important, But Not Urgent
Day 20 – Fardh – For Your Own Good
Day 21 – Direct Connect
Day 22 – In Training
Day 23 – Who Am I?
Day 24 – It’s All About Charity
Day 25 – Untouchable
Day 26 – It Just Keeps Getting Better

Day 3 – Fasting Makes Me Stronger!

Day 4 – Perfection

Day 5 – Paradise is a Place on Earth

Day 6 – Hellfire

Day 7 – Someone’s watching me

Day 8 – I’ll do it when I feel like it. Not.

Day 9 – A Balancing Act

Day 10 – To go up, you must go down

Day 11 – Keeping Hope Alive

Day 12 – In God We Trust

Day 14 – Skip it

Day 15 – The Eman Rush Zone

Day 16 – Stress – Thy name is Ingratitude

Day 17 – Abundance – Thy Name is Shukr

Day 18 – Fear of Allah’s Anger

Day 19 – Important, But Not Urgent

Day 20 – Fardh – For Your Own Good

Day 21 – Direct Connect

Day 22 – In Training

Day 23 – Who Am I?

Day 24 – It’s All About Charity

Day 25 – Untouchable

Day 26 – It Just Keeps Getting Better

…until Ramadan!  Yaayy!

It’s been a roller coaster ride this year for my iman so I’m really looking forward to Ramadan.  I am starting to make dua that Allah extend my life so that I can fast this Ramadan just like the sahaba did and make it the best of all the past years for me. 

My (non-Muslim) dad and I were talking about the 16-hour fasts this year.  You can imagine the look on his face when we calculated the hours!  He had to ask me more than once if I could drink water during that time! To some non-Muslims, Ramadan seems suicidal. To Muslims, it’s heightened spirituality.  To doctors, it’s prescribed medicine.   To the devils, it’s prison. 

I remember my own reaction to Ramadan before I converted to Islam.  While I agreed with fasting, I thought their method was wrong and pointless.  I mean, why do Muslims have to be so strict with everything?  And what’s all this business about not being able to go to parties and clubs anymore?  After all, what did having fun have to do with food? 

Now, as a Muslim, I am so eager to experience spiritual serenity.  It’s been a ritual of mine to make my ULTIMATE dua list every Ramadan that I will ask Allah for every night insha Allah so I will be doing that soon. 

I followed this advice from an audio I listened to from Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef and alhamdulillah, it’s been spectacular.  I highly recommend it to you, so get out a pen and paper.  Here’s the formula:

1. Go somewhere beautiful with no distractions.
2. Ask yourself, “If Allah told me I could have anything in the dunya and akhira, what would I ask for?”
3. Write out everything — be really EXCITED!!
4. Pick out the top 6 duas and prioritize the list.  Don’t forget to include things in the akhira.
5. Keep this list with you at all times in Ramadan and don’t forget to ask Allah consistently, especially at the best times (i.e. Laylatu AlQadr, Qiyam al-Layl, right before breaking fast etc.)

Can you feel the excitement?!

Also check out his site www.successinislam.com and sign up to get a hadith a week, that really hits you where you need it in your life. It is amazing. may Allah reward him for helping so many laymen muslims open thier eyes, and becoming outstanding believers.