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As we wind down this blessed month of Ramadan,

and we do not know how many more Ramadan's each and every one of us has.

And in this month, Alhamdulillah, from Alhamdulillah, I have no doubt that every one of us sitting here

has increased our rituals in our worship

and has diminished and decreased the quantity of our sins. Alhamdulillah.

So before we finish this month, it behooves us to remind ourselves

of some of the benefits of remaining in this state that we are currently in

and of conquering our sins and our desires that we have done during this month.

We're about to wind down four days left, that's it.

And then when this month is over, Shaitan is going to come to us

and seduce us, entice us to return to our previous lifestyles.

And that's where the real challenge will begin.

So let us remind ourselves of some of many of the negative repercussions of the sins that we commit.

And Ibn Al-Qayyim, Rahim Allah, to one of our greatest ulama,

he has written a very deep and profound treatise about the effects of sins

and he has discussed many dozens of the consequences of sins.

Obviously time is limited, but we can summarize some of those points.

Ibn Al-Qayyim mentions that Subhanallah, we can even begin

with the story of Adam, Ali, his Salam, that what caused our father Adam

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