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We want to look at how we can maximize the benefit during these days, but remaining consistent.

One of the mistakes we make is when Ramadan starts, we're in the

maschid as soon as the moon is sighted and the maschid is packed and everyone is there

doing tarawiyah. Ibada, Quran, Dhikir, all of this is amazing. But what happens? Sometimes

we suffer burnout because we overdo things and then we can't keep up with that pace.

Ramadan is like a marathon. When you start running, you make sure your focus is on the last 10 nights.

So, subhannalah, I know we're talking a little bit late in the day because we're already

in the last 10 nights, but if you look at Ramadan and you ask yourself, what am I meant to

achieve by this? It's the end that needs to be powerful and potent. In Islam, your deeds are judged by how they

ended. So even in life, if you were very pious at the beginning of your life and you lost it

towards the end, Allah will judge you based on the ending. Similarly, if you were not a good

person at the beginning and you committed sins, when

you sought forgiveness and changed your life, Allah judges you by your repentance and not by your

sin.

So where did the repentance come in at the end or not at the end?

If it came in at the end, good news to you.

But if it did not come in at the end, you need to do better.

That's why we are here talking about Ramadan. Let it end well. If you have done well, don't lose

the consistency and the focus. And if you have not done well, guess what? It's never too late.

Those of you who might have wasted the first days of Ramadan

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