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Assalam aalekum.

We all have bad habits.

You have to admit it, but we have to work on our bad habits.

These bad habits are such that they can bog us down.

Allah gives us a month of Ramadan, a month of purification.

Allah gives us the opportunity to give charity,

both that which is compulsory and that which is voluntary,

as a means of purification as well.

So we need to purify ourselves

and seize the opportunity of Ramadan in particular

to ensure that we are healed.

Heal from what?

Healing from your physical sicknesses, healing from your spiritual maladies, your jealousy,

your envy, your hatred, your selfishness, and so much more.

We need to make sure we work on these habits and characters. The values and morals

that we stand for need to be high. They need to be checked. So Allah gives us a month of reflection.

If you look at the physical aspect, fasting is by far one of the healthiest ways of improving yourself physically and eradicating physical illness.

More and more studies as time is passing are proving that fasting actually has so much more in terms of health benefits than we ever knew before.

You look at the intermittent fasting that's happening and that's being taught, even by those who don't believe, by the non-Muslims.

But we've had the Monday and the Thursday from the sunnah of the Prophet

Sall-A-L-A-Salam from the beginning.

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