Again attend this year's Ramadan and Muslims greet Worldwide. The whole community should be grateful because it was reunited with a month full of mercy and blessings. For no less our brothers who are called by God Almighty in advance so it can not meet this month full of grace. Encounter was grateful because if it is not obligatory Ramadan would come and go without any meaning and benefits.
Prophet Muhammad emphasized that "if my ummah to know about the month of Ramadan, they would expect throughout the year to the month of Ramadan" (law ta "ma fi ummati night of Ramadan latamannau takun kulluha sanat al-Ramadan). Just this month, all the good deeds reward doubled , received obedience, prayers answered, and all sins will be forgiven. Heaven will really miss the people who fasted.
Fasting all year round so impossible, but with only a month of fasting in Ramadan fasting reward reward will surpass all year round. Plus one night in the month with a value of more than a thousand months (Laylat al-Qadr),. If the sum of a thousand months equivalent to 83 years. If the average human age is 65 years old, then the rest is the deposit of good deeds that are beneficial for life on akherat later.
Month full of blessings and forgiveness should greeted with joy. Prophet Muhammad even gave the lure of an attractive "Whosoever happy to welcome Ramadan, God forbid her from licking flames of hell" (man faraha dukhul bi Allah Ramadan harrama jasadah 'ala al-Niran). Possibly there are some people which grundel when Ramadan comes. Particularly for those who sell food and the like, or who work in places of entertainment. No such attitude should be promoted because the business fields that accompany fasting month is quite a lot and all promised benefits.
Feeling happy to greet the arrival of Ramadan is an attitude that simply can deliver it to heaven. Narrated in al-Nasihin Dzurrat (p. 8), someone who never prayed all his life but when Ramadan arrived she greeted him with good clothes, wear perfume, and prayer. This attitude caused amazement to others: "Why do you act like that." He said: "This month of repentance, grace, and maybe God will give grace to me." Soon after, he died. In his dream, the person is asked: "How does God say?" (Ma fa 'ala Allah bika). He replied: "My God has forgiven my sins because I respect the greatness of Ramadan" (ghafara hurmat ta bi li rabbi "dhim ramadan).
This story line with the Prophet Muhammad that "whoever fasts Ramadan founded in faith and sincerity so that the past sins forgiven by Allah SWT (man qama imanan ramadan wa ma lahu ihtisahaban gufira taqaddama danbih min). The word" Qama "here not only fasting, but also turn on the evening with additional acts of worship such as tarawih, tadarus, i "tikaf, and others.
Advice of Prophet Muhammad
Given the greatness and virtues of the fasting month of this, the Prophet gave advice to all Muslims around the end of the month Sha "ban and before the month of Ramadan. Sermon welcoming the fasting month is a form of special attention so that his people did not neglect the Messenger of Ramadan.
In the sermon, the Prophet reminds months of this sublime and pernuh blessing. In it there is one night worth more than a thousand months (lailat al-Qadr). Whoever voluntary charity in this month, reward, such as compulsory charity in another month. Anyone who (once) in this month's charity shall reward as those who labor required seventy times in other months (taqarraba FThi man kana bi khaslat recording Adda Sabu "in faridatan fima Siwah).
In the sermon was also mentioned that Ramadan is the month of patience and attitude of impatient reply was paradise. This month is also the month of love and Rizki month in which a believer will be added. Whoever gives food while breaking even just a sip of water or a small palm-only, will receive forgiveness from God for all his sins without reducing the reward of the fasting.
At the end of the sermon, the Prophet Muhammad recommend four things to be carried as much as possible during Ramadan, which is read sentences Thayyibah, seek forgiveness, inserted into heaven and take refuge from Hell. Practice, practice the above can be implemented without having to wait for spare time. Any time can be carried out while still running the activities and daily work.
Ramadan Preparation
Yahya ibn Mu "adz-a-old cleric said that the coming month of Ramadan to be prepared ahead of time, namely since the month of Rajab and Sha" ban. He said that Rajab is the month to purify the body, Sha 'ban to purify our hearts and to purify the spirit of Ramadan. If someone had cleaned her body in the month of Rajab, and purify his heart in Sha "ban so he will gain spiritual sanctity of Ramadan. Conversely, if the month of Rajab and Sha 'ban just go away without any physical cleansing and liver, hence less than optimal as a madrasa Ramadan spiritual. Therefore, the month of Rajab month actually ask forgiveness from all sins, Sha' ban is the month of purification of the hearts of all disabilities and Ramadan is the month for mencahayakan liver. In the month of Rajab and Sha 'ban, the Messenger of mensunnatkan fasting as a warming up to run fast in the next month.
Opinion among the scholars in the nicely captured by the Javanese who initiated the ritual of welcoming the month of Ramadan with ruwahan, like nyadran example. Nyadran in the Islamic tradition was carried out in coastal Ruwah or Sha 'ban as a ritual face of Ramadan fasting. Nyadran itself was originally influenced by Hindu and Buddhist teachings but in the hands of the Islamic community is loaded with the tradition of Islamic values which condensed. On the field nyadran no different as the grave pilgrimage in Islamic tradition and making food for others as a mirror sodaqah. sodaqah Pilgrimage is a symbol of purification and hearts and bodies, such as the opinion of Yahya Ibn Mu 'adz above.
There are two important things that need to be prepared to welcome Ramadan, the physical preparation and liver. Preparing the physical facilities and infrastructures including what is needed to improve implementation of the fasting. Could be the places of worship (mosques and musolla) enhanced appearance and equipped facilities. Concerning the needs of families, were also prepared in such a way that adds tranquility while performing worship. Designing activities for the month of Ramadan as tarawih and tadarus together, held a ceremony to welcome the children and filling (pesantren kilatmisalnya) also became part of the holy month of physical preparations this.
No less important, and the main inner preparation. The essence of worship is fasting is to train oneself to be honest, sincere, patient and self-control. Once out of the house, not many people know whether he was still fasting or become null and void at home. Similarly, in the lead-to-day activities sehar, maybe he was not able to or be tempted to do things that can reduce the reward of fasting, such as lying, slander, or a lot of unnecessary talk, and others. Honesty, sincerity, patience and self control and is several moral messages that must be undertaken to accompany fasting.
Someone who is not able to realize the moral message at the top, so he may enter a category, such as signal "Rasulullah SAW:" Many people are fasting but did not gain anything except hunger and thirst alone. " Surely the best way to welcome the presence of Ramadan is to leave all sinners and reproduce actions obey and worship Allah SWT.
Marhaban ya Ramadhan. May we be given the power to run a month-long fasting.
Abu Rokhmad
