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The beautiful changes that we have made during the month of Ramadan. This is indeed a day that's given to us by the Almighty in order to display the happiness and the pleasure in order to display the goodness in order to be happy in order to reach out to one another in the best possible way to smile, to resolve matters and problems, to be a day of reconciliation, to be a day of kindness and charity.

This is a day given to us as Muslims by the Almighty after a great season of worship of Allah within the month of Ramadan.

The month of Ramadan being the greatest month within the Islamic calendar.

A month whereby we have abstained from food and drink and permissible sexual relations for the sake of the Almighty, from dawn to dusk every day for the entire month.

We have become more conscious during this month of the way we behave. We have become more conscious of our character and conduct.

We have also reached out to the poor in our charities during this beautiful month and after such a lovely month the Almighty warns us about exiting the month in a way that we become the same old people we were.

We are forgetting about the beautiful changes we had made within our lives and our systems.

For this I remind myself and yourselves let us continue with similar compassion, with similar goodness, with similar greatness of character and conduct that we had during the month even now that that month is over.

And for this reason the Almighty has asked us to continue with the fast on a voluntary basis during this month of shawal,

Mansaam ar-Ama-Ama-Dana Thumma at-Bahahu s-Ittam-Misha-Wal, Kanakasiyam-Iddahar, Allahu Akbar-ul-Llahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Wa Lillahi-Lhamd.

We are taught whoever fasts the month of Ramadan and thereafter follows it with six fasts during the month of shawal which is this month that we have just entered into they will receive a reward of having fasted the entire year.

The scholars of Hadith explain that the reason is all good deeds for Muslims are multiplied in reward by ten.

When you fast for the month of Ramadan it is multiplied a minimum by ten which means you have a reward of having fasted ten months.

In order to complete the year there would be two more months. For those two more months we need to fast six more days, six by ten equals 60, approximately two months SubhanAllah.

So the ten months plus the two months would give you the reward of having fasted the entire year.

That is an amazing gift of Allah. I encourage myself and yourselves through this month of shawal not necessarily consecutively.

But if you were to fast another six more days not only would it be good for your health in terms of having completed the fast of Ramadan and then slowing down into the feast rather than feasting all at once and affecting your health negatively with fast for another six days like I said not necessarily consecutively.

But more than the health benefit is actually the spiritual and religious benefit may Allah make it easy for all of us.

My brothers and sisters we are also taught to fast on a Monday and a Thursday if possible as a practice of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him on a weekly basis throughout the year.

The idea is to earn the reward that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has kept in store for the fast.

Fasting always brings about greatness of the qualities within a human being.

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