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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon many many. And what is next? My brothers and sisters, Ramadan has ended and so have the rites of Ramadan. But the rites of Allah remain and they will remain until we die. As Allah commanded, وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينَ Allah said, worship Allah, worship your Rabb until the inevitable comes to you, until the truth comes to you and that is death. Ramadan came to increase our taqwa. As I mentioned in several of my khutbah before, every ibadah, every act of worship is not for itself. Every act of worship is a tool to achieve something. Salah is not for itself. إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَهْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ Salah is the tool to separate us from, to protect us from everything which is shameless and everything which is not good. Everything which is rebelliousness of Allah and disobedience. So if I'm praying and I find that there is no change in my lifestyle, if I'm still disobeying Allah, if I'm still engaging in things that Allah has prohibited, then I must question my salah. I must question what quality of salah is this? That it is not achieving the purpose for which it is meant. Allah said about Ramadan, what is the purpose of Ramadan? Ya ayyu allatheena amanu kootiba alaikumus siyamu kama kootiba ala allatheena min qablikum la'alakum tattaqoon Allah said, Do you believe fasting has been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you so that you may become muttaqoon, so that you may become conscious of Allah in your lives, so that you may become completely and totally obedient to Allah, so that you do everything for one reason only and that reason is because it pleases my Creator. Now Ramadan reinforced that because in Ramadan during the hours of the fasting from before sunrise to after sunset, we stayed away even from things which are normally halal. Why? Because Allah said so. There's another reason. If anyone fasted for any other reason then the fast becomes batil. The reason we fast, the reason we don't eat, we don't drink, we don't have intimacy and so on is because Allah said so. Not for its physical benefits or you know any other reason. Because Allah said so. And that is to reinforce this concept in our minds. Because Allah said so. So if I'm going to stay away even from the permitted things which are wholesome, which are good to do because Allah said so and for no other reason, then what must I do with those things which Allah prohibited? Ramadan therefore did not come for Ramadan. Ramadan came for the rest of our lives. That is the goal. We use Ramadan as a habit change, an attitude change and a life change opportunity. So that we can become uttaqoon, we can become people of taqwa. We can become people who are conscious of Allah in every aspect of our lives. And so that we live our goals, we live our lives with only one goal in mind and that is to please Allah . Developing taqwa is the most important goal in life. Because all the promises of Allah are for the muttaqoon. Not merely for the Muslimoon. Not merely for the person who enters Islam. When you enter Islam, you just enter the fort. But you want value added benefits? It has to be more than that. We have to become conscious of Allah in our lives. And we have to worship Allah only without any partners. And we have to obey Allah over and above. And before we obey Allah, we have to obey Allah. We have to obey anyone and anything else including our own desires. And that is why Allah said وَبَنْ يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مَخْرَجًا وَيَرْزُقُهُ مِنْ هَيْثُ لَا يَهْتَصِبُ Allah said whoever is mindful of Allah, what is the benefit of being a muttaqoon?

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