🌙 Shaʿban
Prepare Your Ramadan Plan
Enter Ramadan with intention, purpose and a plan.
🌿 Ramadan Is Almost Here
Shaʿban gives us a precious opportunity to prepare before Ramadan arrives. Rather than entering Ramadan without a plan, take some time now to think about how you want to use this blessed month.
Ramadan is not simply about changing our eating and sleeping habits. It is an opportunity to strengthen our relationship with Allah ﷻ, increase our worship, improve our character and seek His forgiveness.
📖 Set Your Intention
Before Ramadan begins, make a sincere intention to use the month wisely. Decide what you want to improve and ask Allah ﷻ to give you the strength and sincerity to achieve it.
📝 Make a Simple Ramadan Plan
📖 Qur'an
Decide how much Qur'an you would like to read each day.
🕌 Salah
Protect your five daily prayers and prepare for Taraweeh.
🤲 Duʿa
Make a list of the people and matters you want to remember in your duʿa.
❤️ Charity
Decide how you can help others and give charity throughout Ramadan.
⏰ Plan Your Time
Ramadan days can become very busy. Shopping, cooking, work, family responsibilities and social activities can easily take away from our worship if we do not plan ahead.
Use Shaʿban to think about your daily routine. Preparing meals, organising your schedule and reducing unnecessary distractions can help you protect valuable time for Qur'an, salah, dhikr and duʿa.
🌙 My Ramadan Goals
```☐ Pray all five salah on time
☐ Read Qur'an every day
☐ Make regular dhikr
☐ Make sincere duʿa
☐ Give charity
☐ Help someone in need
☐ Improve my character
☐ Seek Allah's forgiveness
```💚 Keep It Realistic
Do not make your Ramadan plan so difficult that you become discouraged. A small amount of worship performed consistently can be better than making a huge plan that becomes impossible to maintain.
Choose a few important goals and work on them sincerely. Ramadan is about drawing closer to Allah ﷻ, not competing with other people.
O my Lord, help me and do not make things difficult for me.
```🌙 A Final Shaʿban Reminder
Shaʿban is coming to an end, and Ramadan is approaching. The preparation we make today can help us enter Ramadan with a stronger heart and clearer purpose.
Do not wait for the first night of Ramadan to decide what you want to achieve. Begin preparing now. Turn back to Allah ﷻ, complete what you owe, increase your worship and make a sincere plan for the month ahead.
🤲 May Allah Allow Us to Reach Ramadan
```May Allah ﷻ allow us to reach Ramadan in good health and strong faith, accept our fasting and worship, forgive our shortcomings, and make this Ramadan a means of drawing closer to Him. Ameen.
```🌙 Shaʿban is preparation • Ramadan is the opportunity
Prepare your heart today for the blessed month that is coming.