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Peace be upon you all, and may Allah be pleased with you.

Allah is the Greatest Allah is the Greatest.

I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah.

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

Peace be upon you all, and may Allah be pleased with you.

Come to success.

Allah is the Greatest.

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the throne and the Master of all Dominion.

He lifted up the skies and beautified the stars and constellations, and he spread forth the earth, and he made it a solid foundation, and he sends down the rain and blesses us with fruits and vegetation, and he created us from one man and woman, dividing us into tribes and nations.

He preferred the children of Adam over the rest of his creation, and he sent to us his chosen Prophet our source of salvation.

I remember an incident that happened with me in my first year when I was studying at the University of Medina.

It was my first Ramadan in the blessed city of the Prophet ﷺ, and I was a new student, and I would go recite Qur'an to my teacher to get the hijaz every single day, and the first day of Ramadan I went to him and I took my turn in line, and I would always have a book with me when I waited my turn in line.

But this was the first day of Ramadan, and my Sheikh, may Allah bless and reward him, and he has been teaching the Qur'an in the Master of the Prophet ﷺ for over 45 years of his life.

My Sheikh saw me with another book, and he politely closed it, and he said, Ramadan, the Qur'an only.

I said, Sheikh, this book is actually about the Qur'an, it's about abrogation in the Qur'an, I was writing a book about Ulumul Qur'an back then, I said, Sheikh, this is a book about the Qur'an, and he wagged his fingers at me.

He pointed towards the road, and he said, Imam Malik used to teach the Muattah over there, and when Ramadan would come, he would shut the books of Hadith, and he would open up the Qur'an and read nothing but the Qur'an.

I never forgot that incident, even though, to be honest, I was not able to live up to that, because I learned from them that the methodology of our early scholars, the Sahaba and Tabi'un, and the great Imam's, was that the month of Ramadan was a special month that is associated primarily with the Qur'an.

As the famous scholar Ibn Shahab al-Zuhri said when Ramadan would come, he said, as soon as Ramadan comes, all deeds we stop them, except feeding the hungry and reading the Qur'an.

That's all that we need to do in this month, we feed the hungry, and we open up the book of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

This month of Ramadan has been associated with the Qur'an in the Qur'an itself, and in fact, even before Allah tells us about the fast, he tells us about the Qur'an.

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