All of creation: the living, the non-living; the plants, the animals – prostrate to Allāh. Except for a few weaklings who have perverted from this universal order. So what have these out-of-order creatures earned? Punishment and humiliation. One that is justified. Sūrat al-Ḥajj:18…
The twelve months of the year are like the twelve sons of Prophet Yaʿqūb. And just as Prophet Yūsuf was the most beloved to Yaʿqūb, the month of Ramaḍān is the most beloved to Allāh. And just as Allāh forgave the eleven brothers by the duʿāʾ of one; Yūsuf, He can forgive your eleven months of sins by your duʿāʾ in Ramaḍān. — Imām Ibn Jawzī, in: بستان الواعظين ورياض السامعين، مجلس ١٣…
This Ramaḍān when you call out to Allāh, do so with the proper etiquettes. Some of these etiquettes are evident in the āyāt of the Qurʾān, specially in the supplications of the Prophets and Messengers. (And when I am ill, it is He who cures me.) ash-Shuʿarāʾ:80 ﴾And [mention] Ayūb, when he called to his Lord, “Indeed, adversity has touched me, and you are the Most Merciful of the merciful.”﴿ al-Anbiyāʾ:83 Notice the previous two āyāt, is there something…