Quick notes on Ramadan

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum. I did a detailed lecture on that which I have sent to all of you. It came on the group chat and all that. So, when you have time, watch that. But briefly, there are three things that I want you to keep in mind. Three critical parameters. Ramadan, inshallah, will start maybe on Saturday or Sunday, meaning we will have Talawee either on Friday or Saturday. And so we are quite close to that, couple of days. So, three things in mind. First and foremost, make your goals for Ramadan. What do you want to achieve with Ramadan? What additional Quran do you want to read? What else do you want to read? In terms of say, Qayam-ul-Layl, Tahajjud, how much do you want to pray? In terms of charity, how much do you want to give? Whatever your goals, right? So, what are your goals for Ramadan? Now, it's very important to start with the goals because unless we have goals, then we don't know how we are progressing. So, start with goals for Ramadan. One goal which I suggest is make it your goal to say that you will finish one dhawar of the Quran in Ramadan. You will read the Quran from page 1 to page 600, from the beginning to the end, from Surat al-Fatiha to Surat al-Nas in Ramadan. Now, what that means, so which comes to the second part, then make a timetable. So, once you have a goal, I'll use this as an example, you must do this for whatever goals you have. So, once you have a goal, then make a timetable with metrics, measurements. So, say my goal is to read one complete khatmah of the Quran, one complete recitation of the entire Quran, in the whole month. Now, what that means is if you take a Usmani Musaf, which is what we usually use in the Farsi, the Nastaliq one, which is the Pakistani one, I don't know how many lines to the page, but in the Usmani Musaf, one juz, one sipara is about 20 pages, so that's the number of lines to the page. So, if you take a Usmani Musaf, which is the number of lines to the page, then you have to read the whole Quran. So, if you take a Usmani Musaf, one juz, one sipara is about 20 pages, 20-25 pages. So, every day you must read 20 pages. So, break it down further. 20 pages a day, one way of doing that is to read 5 pages after every salaah. So, you end up reading 25 pages, which is good because in case the month of Ramadan is 29 days, then you would have enough time to finish the whole khatam. Otherwise, if you are reading only 20 pages, then you will be stuck with, at the end you will have one sipara left because you would have read only 29, 30th only. So, to finish the 30, read 25 pages a day, which is 5 pages after every salaah. So, if you read 5 pages, it doesn't take too long. It takes maybe 20 minutes, 25 days. It obviously depends on how fluently you read, but anyway, try that. So, make this into a framework for yourself. The first thing is to set a goal. Secondly, to have a timetable and within the timetable to have metrics, measurement. Third thing and very, very important is to get rid of all distractions during this month. Biggest distraction of course is social media. So, get rid of, just unsubscribe from all the groups, unsubscribe from whatever else you do, Facebook, this, that, except if you are using it for some official purpose, some college related stuff, if you have to see it, see it. But other than that, stay out of all that. Quite simply because otherwise you won't have time. If you have this thing beeping and then of course turn notifications off, right? Because if you have that phone beeping all the time, there is no way that you are going to read any qur'an or anything. You will not be able to do it. The important thing in this timetable thing is if you decide to read 5 pages a day, 5 pages after every salaah, you must read 5 pages. Because if you miss even one, the next one becomes 10 pages, right? You can't do it. If you miss two, then it's 15 pages to finish for the day. So, it's very important to stick to the schedule,