On the last day of Sha'ban, Prophet Muhammad, gave a lecture about the upcoming month of Ramadan (the month of fasting).
It begins:
"Oh people! A great month is coming to you. A blessed month. A month in which there is one night that is better than a thousand months. A month in which God has made it compulsory upon you to fast by day, and voluntary to pray by night.
Whoever draws nearer to God by performing any of the voluntary good deeds in this month shall receive the same reward as is there for performing an obligatory deed at any other time. And whoever discharges an obligatory deed in this month shall receive the reward of performing seventy obligations at any other time.
It is the month of Patience, and the reward for patience is Heaven. It is the month of kindness and charity. It is a month in which a believer's sustenance is increased.
Whoever gives food to a fasting person to break his fast, shall have his sins forgiven, and he will be saved from the Fire of Hell, and he shall have the same reward as the fasting person, without the latter's reward being diminished at all." [Narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah]
It begins:
"Oh people! A great month is coming to you. A blessed month. A month in which there is one night that is better than a thousand months. A month in which God has made it compulsory upon you to fast by day, and voluntary to pray by night.
Whoever draws nearer to God by performing any of the voluntary good deeds in this month shall receive the same reward as is there for performing an obligatory deed at any other time. And whoever discharges an obligatory deed in this month shall receive the reward of performing seventy obligations at any other time.
It is the month of Patience, and the reward for patience is Heaven. It is the month of kindness and charity. It is a month in which a believer's sustenance is increased.
Whoever gives food to a fasting person to break his fast, shall have his sins forgiven, and he will be saved from the Fire of Hell, and he shall have the same reward as the fasting person, without the latter's reward being diminished at all." [Narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah]
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