Sheikh Uthman Hadi - Fix your Ramadan Before its too late

Episode Date: March 8, 2026

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh. Dear brothers and sisters, we gather here today in the blessed month of Ramadan, a time of mercy, forgiveness, and spiritual rejuvenation. As we approach the end of this sacred month, it is crucial to reflect on how we can conclude our Ramadan in the best way possible.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

Bismillah, Rihmane, alhaheim, Alhannaheim, and alhāsa'u'll Allah, and al-Alihahlihah, and aishae and ahahehyah, and ah t'a'a'rothi and my brothers and sisters. I pray that everyone is doing well and I ask Allah, suhanna,

how it is our sins, our shortcomings, and a grant special mercy, not only in this, life, the meeting in the next, and continue to bless us with a beautiful and blessed Ramadan and a beautiful and blessed day. My brothers and sisters, al-a-a-a-a, right now it is still a very early portion of the last tonight. So, inshallah, prepare yourself for these last ten nights if they are coming up.

And that's something else I want to speak about tonight, my dear brothers and sisters as if you and I are alive right now, we might not see the next Ramadan. We are just fortunate enough to have seen the first 20 days, or inshallah, I'll say today maybe the first 19 or 18, 19 days. Oh, the matth of Ramadan. Are we going to be fortunate enough to see the next Ramadan? Only Allah, Sufano, Allah, sa, Allah, knows. Were we fortunate enough to see this Ramadan? Yes. Fixing your Ramadan and ending your Ramadan in the best way is one of the best things that can happen to you. Because I don't know if I'm going to be alive the end of this Ramadan. I don't know if I'm going to be alive the next Ramadan.

Me and you both. But what I do know is that for the moments that we have right now, since we are alive right now in this very moment, if you and I are watching right now, whether that be physical presence or whether that be online, I promise you, will be, you still have a chance to change. whether that be even during the daytime. You might not be praying prayer at night, but that's okay. You still have a chance to change while it's early in the day. So, my brother says, one of the things when it comes to the iBada during the month of Ramadan,

since the month of Ramadan is a time for increased iBada, but it's also a time for worshipping at night, which is why the Prophet of Allah al-a-u-Salam, you know, emphasize the values of worshiping during the last night. Aisha, Ali Allah, and how reported that the Prophetus Allah, Allah, Allah, He was Sala would exert himself in Ibarra during these nights more than any other time throughout the year.

So, trying your absolute hardest to exert yourself, and this is actually something else I want to speak about, because it's very important that you realize the connection between quality and quantity. We spoke about this in the series, the journey to the divine, and just to let you know that series, this is not the series, Okay, so just lets you know any of you watching like, hellah de lais is coming out a little earlier today.

It's not the series, okay? But when we speak about quality over quantity, what does that mean? Well, the quality of your ebada is more important than the quantity. Because if I pray 40 rikaz of tarawi at night, is it going to benefit me or am I just praying out of rituals? I'm just praying because everybody else is praying at the mastate? Am I just praying just to pray? And you find this happens all the time.

And then the quality of your ebada is terrible. because now you're trying to rush to pray. You're praying really fast and you're not taking the time to actually go into your prayer, which is why my dear brothers and sisters, when it comes to the authentic hadith that the first thing a servant

will be hushing about on the day of resurrection is his sala. It's very important that we make sure our sala is sound and it's not just quantity. We're not saying, oh, I'm praying as many soon as I can and possibly a day, but during those prayers, I'm not making up for the mistakes

that I made during my actual prayers. Because if you really think about it, I don't want to get too far into that, But if you think about it, sunnas, if you actually think, are actually kind of like a filler for those holes that you made in your sala, your mandatory sala, your mandatory one, right? Now you're playing your no waffle, which is your voluntary one, and that is like filling those holes in of the mistakes that you made. So when it comes to these last 10 nights, spend your brothers and sisters, some of us try to do quantity over quality. We try to pray as much as we can. We try to read as much Quran as we can. Not saying these things are a bad thing.

exert yourself in Ibadah is great, but if you know that I have three hours right now from the time of, let's just say now, you know, since for us here in the U.S. our time for prayer, change for daylight savings. I don't know if it did for everybody else. I might be wrong. I'm not miscalculating here. But Isha for us now is at 8 o'clock. So by the way, just to let you all know, the series actually will be coming out now probably at about 8.50. I think, I think, I think, no, sorry, it's at 7. 7 o'clock. It's 7 o'clock. It's 7 o'clock. It's 7 o'clock. Sorry, so it would be coming out still at eight, I think. It'll come out about a maybe 40, 845, something like that. I totally forgot the time, so that's why I'm saying it like how I am right now. So I don't, just in case you're wondering, like, why is you not remember the times? I actually kind of forgot the time for the last one. I'm a little tired, but I think it was, I think it's 8 o'clock for tonight, tonight we're praying since it went ahead an hour.

But when it comes to, let's just say you're praying at 840 for each at time at home. Let's just say you pray at home, right? It's better to pray in the master of the congregation, but let's just say you pray at home. After you finish, you directly salam out, you make your dikr, your al-Qa, and then you pray Tarawi. After you pray Tarawi, what do you do? Let's just say you pray Tarawi, you have between the time of 8 o'clock and let's just say you make until 11. That's three hours for you to worship Allah. Am I saying that you need to, you know, only do two rakas of Tarawi and then read, you know, one ayah of the Quran and then perform, you know, a couple of, you know, rounds of zikar, and then after that go to bed?

No. I'm saying that through these last 10 nights, like I said, and I started off with, you don't know if you're going to see the last 10 nights, the rest of them, and you don't know if you're going to see the next round on. So using these times as a means of bettering ourselves is also very important. So trying to engage in prayer, trying to read the Quran, trying to perform more dikr, trying to make more dua. Throughout these blessed nights is very important. And it can lead to actually immense blessings, which is why the Prophet of Allah alexand-a-was-slam says, whoever prays during the night of Leila del Qadur with faith in hoping for his reward will have all of his previous sins forgiven. So this hadith clearly emphasizes to us that we should try to pray at night.

We should try and pray as much as we can throughout a period of time. And I do want to emphasize as well that it's not necessary for you to pray all throughout the night, get 10 minutes of sleep and then wake up for Sahur and then go on throughout your day. right you're going to be exhausted and Allah's upon what I don't want us to be exhausted but rather he actually wants us to still have energy to continue on our ibada which is why one of the things I want to mention here when it comes to our prayers one of the first things I want you to think of is like I mentioned in the beginning which is quality the quality of your ibadah if you prayed 10 rakas of tarui and your one winter that makes 11 if you prayed these prayers and you had the

best quality ever you took your time and your You recited slower. You understood what you were reciting. You went through the verses with sincerity. You started to embed them in your hearts and started to try to use them in your lives. And then you continue on. You make your duaas with sincerity. You're performing your diqa with sincerity. You're reading the Quran with sincerity with the true intention. There's nothing wrong with that. And that right there is good enough reward for you. You don't have to exert yourself until 2 o'clock in the morning or 4 o'clock in the morning and then wake up at 5 or 6 o'clock so you can have sohor. and then go back to sleep for 30 minutes after after Fudjard, and then wake up again and go back to work or do whatever else you have to do. But do try, my dear brothers and sisters to look towards the elevation of your status in the eyes of Allah, not in the status here,

because sometimes we exert ourselves too much, and this is where the quality comes in over quantity. Sometimes we pray so much at night, and sometimes we're so tired, and then on the day of Eve, we can barely open our eyes because we're so tired. And now we're wondering, this went from a celebration to a,

a sleep celebration. Now we're sleeping throughout the whole day. We're not doing anything else. And this is where it comes to, we have to look back to the quality over quantity. If you truly want to have a successful last 10 nights and a successful Ramadan and you want to fix your Ramadan, look at the quality of your ibada. Because I don't care if you read the whole Quran throughout the mat of Ramadan. If you benefited from it, then that's a good thing. If you did it, you just read it, just to read it. The words did not stick to your heart. Right? So look towards, quality. The quality of your Ibadah, the quality of your worship, the quality of your Draha and your Dikkard is very important, which is why it even comes to seeking of forgiveness.

Because during these last ten nights, it's very important to seek forgiveness. When we are striving to worship Allah during these last ten nights, ensure that you are focusing on the concept of tauba or a sincere repentance, forgiveness as well. And we're going to speak about toab in one second. I don't want to make this talk too long. We're going to speak about toah in a second. When you go through this, Allah supranahuata even reminds us in the Quran of this. And he says, and seek forgiveness of your Lord and repent to him. And the authentic hadith that the Prophet of Allah Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, he was said that all of the sons of Adams are sinners, but the best of sinners are those who repent. So even though we are going to sin and we are going to make mistakes, Allah, Allah, Sufanao Tallah has called us back to repent and to turn back to him. And if you've been wasting your first 20 days of the month of Ramadan or 29th of Ramadan, not doing anything, you know, you pray Isha, you pray a couple of rakas, and then you go to bed, nothing wrong with that. But the quality of your Ibadah matters,

and the quality of your forgiveness matters, and the quality of your duais. Al-Hanthaliyah, here where I live, last night we had a beautiful rainstorm. And one of the things, when it comes to the rain, is du'a's being accepted. So for any of you out there, if it's raining around the world,

which I'm speaking to an audience right now, it's not raining for us, but if it's raining around the world for you on the camera, for you, wherever you are, make your duas. Because there are three duais, which they are not denied. That is the dua of a fasting person

when he breaks his fast. That is the dua of a just ruler. That is the dua of the oppressed. So my brothers and sisters and also the one that's raining as well as also accepted. But specifically in this hadith it mentions about those.

But also try to make more dua throughout this month. And when it comes to supplications, it comes to beautiful duas. We spoke about this yesterday in our series. And it's a very beautiful dua that the Prophet of Allah a lai wa'u's

taught us and that was, oh, is Allahum, it, Allah, you are most forgiving, right? Indeed, you are the most forgiving. You love to forgive, so please forgive me. So when you look at this Dua, it encapsulates the essence of our relationship with Allah and acknowledging our faults and our seeking of his mercy. So even throughout our lives, my dear brothers and sisters,

we continue on throughout the last 10 night, seek Allah, Sufana, who is that his mercy and his forgiveness constantly, which is why it goes to our toba, sincere toba, or repentance as it's very essential for our spiritual growth, and it requires us to turn back to Allah with a pure heart. And even if our heart is covered with filth, it requires us to turn back to Allah, acknowledging our sins and committing to actually changing, which is why my dear brothers and sisters in the last 10 nights, you know, of the Matho Ramadan, it provides us with a very beautiful and unique opportunity for sincere

tob, which is why the Prophet of Allah, Allah, A.m. said in the hadith I mentioned before, all of the children of Adam are sinners. But the best of sinners are those who repent. So when you come, when you come to this point, look towards yourself, try to better yourself, try to engage in sincere Tobah. Don't just make it a fest at night where you just eat. And don't try to make, you know, the nighttime a time where you just pray out of just rituals or out of just, you know, responsibilities or out of just whatever it could be. So my dear brothers and sisters, when it comes to the last ten nights, it's also a turning point for our lives. And this is the last thing I do want to talk about here. when it comes to the mother Ramadan.

The turning point for Allah is what does that mean? Well, it's a chance for us to reflect on our past actions and to set intentions for the future, which is why when we dedicate ourselves to our iBada, seeking repentance, seeking forgiveness, and making, you know, we can emerge from Ramadan as better individuals. So when it comes to this, it actually is beautiful because Allah,

He says, in the Quran, when he says, indeed, Allah loves those who are consistently repentant, and loves those, We purify themselves. How do you purify yourself with repentance? What does repentance do? It purify yourself, right? So it's kind of the same here, contradicting.

It goes together. They go together one another. And when it comes to building our relationship, my dear brothers and sisters, when we continue on throughout the last tonight, make sure that you think about how we can maintain our relationship with Allah beyond the month of Ramadan. The habits that we develop during Ramadan

set the tone for our spiritual journey throughout the year. And don't let it be on the night of, you turn back to exactly what you did before. Because that right there is a sign of an unaccepted Ramadan. So turning this Ramadan into a Ramadan that is going to benefit you not just in the last ten nights, but throughout

the rest of your life and their brothers and sisters. And the ibar that you are engaging in during these last ten nights should not be limited to this month. It should not be limited to this. Which is why I suggest that even if you find out that the moon has been cited and it is the night of Aideh, do not

go and say, all right, al-a-a-a-a-moh-a-moh, I'm going to go to bed tonight and wake up for aid, inshallah, tomorrow's celebration, and that's going to be good. Work, my dear brothers and sisters. That night, you know it's eight. Al-Hmda-Lah. Pray ki-iam. Still pray. And if you don't want to pray ki-iam, you want to pray to Hajid, go to sleep for maybe a couple of minutes or so,

or go to sleep for a certain period of time. Wake up before Fudge of time, pray ki-iam. Get up on time, my brother's and sisters. If you had the opportunity and the ability to wake up before Fajarjah, throughout the Ramadan, and you didn't have that ability throughout the year, that is something you need to work on. because a lot of us deal with fudr, and I'm saying that for myself as well. We struggle with fudger and the fudra prayer. So work on trying to actually utilize this opportunity, my dear brothers and sisters,

and trying to continue to seek the pleasure of Allah, supranah, throughout our lives, and using the habits we developed during this month of Ramadan outside. My brothers and sisters, we must make these last ten nights a time in which we engage in Ibadah. We must make these last nights the time in which it changes our life. We must make these last ten nights the time in which it betters us and turn us into better individuals. We make the dua. Oh, we will all Allah, Sophanu, His Allah, we ask you to allow for us to emerge from Ramadan

as better individuals. But what are you truly working towards to actually become a better individual? And finally, my dear brothers and sisters, we ask Allah, to Allah, to accept our sincere tobba and our sincere forgiveness and sincere repentance from him. And we ask Allah, Sufana, how it is to allow for these knights to be a... means of betterment in our lives, a savior from the fire, and a way to build a lasting relationship with him. We strive to end this month of Ramadan in a beautiful way, and it's not the end. So just in case you're wondering, is this the end? No, it's not the end. I'm just saying this

beforehand so we can prepare for the last tonight. My dear brothers and sisters, we ask Allah to accept our efforts, forgive us of our sins, our shortcomings, and grant us his success in this life and in the hereafter and his mercy, not only in this life and meaning the next. Shazakshahmal al-Qa-haira, my dear brothers and sisters, for coming and listening tonight, or today, shall I say, actually still daytime. But, inshallah, we will be back for tonight for our series, adjoining to the divine. Not going to take place here, but it's going to take place in our mission, inshallaha. I ask Allah, Sufana, to grant us all tofique, including myself, and it allow for us to be forgiven for our sins of our shortcomings. Wassaamu.

And alaikum and, and al-a-a-matera, and your brothers and sisters.