Sheikh Uthman Hadi - Does Tawbah Validate Your Ramadan? | Seeking Laylatul Qadr

Episode Date: March 14, 2026

Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. As we find ourselves in the blessed month of Ramadan, a time of spiritual reflection, increased worship, and community, it is essential to discuss a critical aspect of our faith: Tawbah, or repentance. Today, I want to address the question: "Does Tawbah validate your Ramadan?" This inquiry is vital as we strive to make the most of this holy month and seek Allah's mercy and forgiveness.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sheikh-uthman-hadi--6689369/support.https://sheikhuthmanhadi.beam.lyhttps://open.spotify.com/user/315hadqmwxllibu6ubi5us2cbn2y?si=572b4d8898284e9ehttps://open.spotify.com/show/3MQHfrpjj3XXcqoPbN5Dl8?si=v6YQ42kpSx-VONBFhT3CzA

Bism Allah, Rahman, andrahme, al-hemdo-lilah, Godalam, and al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aaaaaaaaa. Asaaaaaaa and sisters, I pray that everyone is doing well and ask Allah, and Allah to be us for our sins of a shirk coming to the grants and special mercy, not only in this life, mainly the next. Hamdil-Lah, we are approaching the next night for us in our prayers, and we are actually, I believe, on the 25th, or the 25th night, in-ja-a-a-24th day, 25th night. So, inshallah, make sure you are increasing in your

abada, specifically on these nights, and specifically on every night, as you might be laid to Qatar on any of these nights. And we ask Allah, and so on my Father de grace to the ability to witness it, to accept our fast and our efforts from us today, and to accept our Ramadan from us in total. This is something that I actually want to speak about today, about validation of your Ramadan, and that is does your toba, does your repentance validate your Ramadan? So I want to go into this in an interesting way, but I want to make this as short as possible

because I do know that we're on a limited time here we don't have 20 minutes to be talking about toba inshallah, that would be tonight, later tonight shall I say. But the first thing I want to mention is an ayah from the Quran in which Allah, Sufanao said, Allah saitha, Allah saithuhae. Kulia, al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-horeem.

He says, all my servants who have wronged your own souls by your own actions. Do not despair of the mercy of Allah, Indeed, Allah saffana-ho-Jara forgives all sins. Indeed, it is he who is the forgiving, the merciful. So here I want to start off by going here to this point of what is Tova? Well, if you actually look at it, Tobuah is a profound act of returning to Allah suhfana-Huadda after committing sins.

It's not just a verbal expression, right? It's not something you just say with your mouth. It's not something that you do verbally, right? But actually, it's two parts. It's intention and its sincerity. And is a means of purifying our hearts. our souls allowing us to reconnect back to Allah suprana and Hohu'u'u'u'u'a and his infinite mercy invites us to turn back to him regardless of you know our sins and what we may do

so during this month of Ramadan we should be trying to seek tovah and actually this verse reassures us that no matter how far we have strayed allah's door of mercy and forgiveness is always open so when you think about the month of Ramadan I want you to imagine that the deeds are multiplied and the bad deeds are also multiplied but the gates of the hellfire are closed and the gates of Jinnah are open so I want you to think about this

when the Prophet Allah a dayu'll say in authentic Hadith whoever fast fast the matto Ramadan out of faith and seeking reward from Allah supranahua who have his past sins forgiven so I want to kind of pair this to when you think about the question does toba validate your Ramadan

well toba as a means of purification is very important and engaging in Tobah during this mother Ramadan, sir, to purify our hearts and our intentions and our soul. And it allows us to cleanse ourselves of our past mistakes and our sins, making our fasts, our prayers, more meaningful, and even our duress and everything else more meaningful. So when we repent, you know, when we repent sincerely, we approach our acts of

Ibadah with a renewed spirit, enhancing, you know, the validity, the validity. I can't say this word, of Ramadan. And so if you want to ask the question of does it validate our Ramadan? we can go into that. And I do want to go into that. I want to keep this one short. I know yesterday was only six minutes, inshallah, I'll keep this one probably about seven

to make sure we still have, you know, ultimate time after this. But one of the things I want to speak about here as well when it comes to this is that the hadith I mentioned before this emphasizes the significance of having sincere intention only to worship Allah, right? And to seek, you know, seek the mercy of Allah,

Sufana and Heweta. And when it comes to a path to acceptance of our fast, The Prophet of Allah al-a-a-u-a-u-saddam taught us that Allah looks at our hearts and our intentions. So if we sincerely repent and strive to improve ourselves, it is a sign of our Ramadan being validated. Right. It is being validated. It's verified that our Ramadan is complete. So we should be looking at our actions. You know, we should be looking at our intentions, not our actions. I set that one backwards.

You want to be looking at your intentions and your sincerity within those intentions that you have. And also trying to ensure that your fasting is not merely just, an act, right? It's not just maybe an act, but it's actually a spiritual journey, which is why you find sometimes people will fast out of the whole month of Ramadan and on the day of Eve or maybe even at night, the night times of every single month of Ramadan is actually a time in which they decide to have a fest and they want to eat and they want to eat and eat. But the point of fasting isn't actually supposed to be physical. It's not supposed to deprive us of our needs so that we can refill ourselves afterwards. The point is to deprive us of our spiritual so we understand what is

like for those who don't have. It's supposed to enhance our spiritual so that we know that we are doing this for the sake of Allah. We actually are completing an obligation for the sake of Allah, and as well as it helps strengthen our relationship with Allah. So during this month of Ramadan, it's an opportunity for us to strengthen our relationship with Allah. So when it comes to our tabooba, we acknowledge our shortcomings and we express our desire to improve. So that humility and that recognize the recognition of our need for Allah's mercy validates our Ramadan experience and the more we turn back to Allah and repentance sincere repentance the closer we become to him and the more our acts of Ibadah are accepted and then the final thing I want to

mention here is the signs of this accepted toba and one of those things is if you're reflecting on the validation of that Ramadan or the validation of your toba the first is an increased inclination towards good deeds and acts of Ibadah the second is a sense of peace and tranquility in your heart the third is a genuine desire to distance yourself from your past sins and improve your character and fourth is a commitment to maintain the spiritual momentum

during the gain during the month of Ramadan even after the month ends right so this is why my brothers and sisters towa actually plays a very crucial role and if I had to answer this toba actually does have a means of validating Ramadan and this is exactly why Allah Sufana Huata says it meant

like I mentioned in the ayah that we have wronged ourselves we have made our mistakes but Allah will forgive us and he'll still have mercy upon us So when you come to this month of Ramadan, Tova purifies our hearts. It strengthens our relationship with Allah. It inherits our sincerity and our fasting and our bada, our psalm, and our Ivada. And as we continue throughout the blessed month of Ramadan and the last time we must embrace the opportunity to seek that toba,

to seek the forgiveness of Allah, and turn back to Allah with sincere hearts. We ask Allah, Suhpana, to allow for our to be accepted, for our Ramadan to be validating. and accepted and we ask Allah, we ask Allah, to allow for us to emerge from this month of Ramadan and better individuals closer to him. I mean, and where Iql, Iwan, al-hambhalililah, al-hahmah, al-habilan. Amean.

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