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You know, if you think of Sha'ban like practice and Ramadan like the game, all right?

If you don't show up to practice, eventually that lack of practice is going to show up in the game as well.

The lack of coordination, something is going to go wrong.

The talent will give out.

The equivalent of the talent might be your natural

spirituality. Maybe you're a person who immediately gets into the zone in Ramadan. You read

Quran right away. You get into the sala. You immediately embrace tarouiha. But eventually the faultiness

of you not having used the month of practice will show up. A lack of coordination at the bare

minimum. So there is getting early and there's being present.

Now I wanted to give this a tasquia checklist, if you will.

What does Ixan look like?

What does excellence look like when it comes to showing up at the right time,

at the right place?

There are four things.

Number one, it's doing while others are not doing.

Doing while others are not doing. Number two, it's doing what isn't expected of you in your

circumstances. Number three, it's doing more of what everybody else is doing.

Number four, it's doing quicker and with more enthusiasm what everybody else is doing.