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 Assalamualaikum, Bismillah

First of all, I would like to say thank you to Assistant Prof. Dr. Nurul Hidayah bin Samsulrizal and the department of plant science kuliyyah of science international Islamic university Malaysia because inviting me as a guest speaker today. May Allah bless all of you.

               Today, the topic is Ramadhan's month of blessing. This topic is very interesting and very nice and very important to every one of us, because, 

1) Ramadhan itself month of blessing 

2) this month has lailatul qadar

 3) the reward will be double and more 

4) the last one is, remember, we need to get the blessing of Allah not only in Ramadhan but we hope Allah blesses us every day, every time, every second in our life.

Brothers and sisters,

Let me ask you something, what is blessed? What is the definition of blessing? We always say Allah Allah bless you. In Arabic, we used to say, barakallahu lakuma, Allahu yubariku fik, barakallah fik. What is a blessing actually? There are many ayat and verses that mention the word tabaraka. For example, tabarakallazi biyadihi mulk.

               Bless means berkat, many welfares. For instance, we do iftar. Our budget is RM 1000.00 for 100 people. Suddenly, the person comes around 150. We are much panicked but we don’t know, suddenly all 150 person gets their iftar. That’s what we call berkat or bless. I had my own experience. During SPM, I and 2 of my friends studied together for the last subject, we slept at musalla, we studied together, we woke up early together, and we tahajud together. When SPM results came out, only one person succeeded meanwhile I did not. So I think that maybe Allah blesses him more than me because perhaps he is closer to Allah, perhaps he closer to his family and his teacher. See, that is what we called berkat.

Brothers and sisters and my fellow friend,

For this moment very short talk, I will simply share a few tips about how to get the blessing by Allah in this Ramadhan month of blessing. At the same time, would like to stress, that we must practice these tips not only for this month but we supposedly practice in our daily life, why? Because we hope Allah blesses us every day, every time, every second in our life and not in Ramadhan only. So, we must start now. Insyaallah Allah will bless us.

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَتْلُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَأَنفَقُوا مِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ سِرًّا وَعَلَانِيَةً يَرْجُونَ تِجَارَةً لَّن تَبُورَ .لِيُوَفِّيَهُمْ أُجُورَهُمْ وَيَزِيدَهُم مِّن فَضْلِهِ ۚ إِنَّهُ غَفُورٌ شَكُورٌ.

(29) Indeed, those who recite the Book of Allah and establish prayer and spend [in His cause] out of what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, [can] expect a profit that will never perish -

( 30 )   That He may give them in full their rewards and increase for them of His bounty. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Appreciative.

يَتْلُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ

They recite the Book of Allah

The first way or tip is to recite al-Quran. Yatlu word derived from tala, yatlu and tilawah. Have you heard the word tilawah, of course right? Tilawah kebangsaan, tilawah antarabangsa and the others. And maybe some of you had experience participating in the tilawah competition. So what is tilawah actually? From this word, it contains several meanings, we need to know some of them, why? Because we must understand al-Quran well so that Allah will give blessing towards us and al-Quran give shafaat for us also. This is what we called a blessing.