Ramadan Reminders 2026 – Day 8

Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, walhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu ala rasoolullah ﷺ wa baad. My brothers and sisters, people ask this question and say, what is the best way, how can I start tahajjud? And I say to you, the best way to start tahajjud is to start tahajjud and to pray tahajjud every single day. Sometimes people will tell you, pray once a week or pray, you know, two times a week. That is difficult because the way to make a difficult thing easy is to make it a habit. And a thing becomes a habit if you do it regularly without changing. One and two and three and four and five and six and seven and continuously throughout the day it becomes a habit. So getting up early becomes a habit and the initial difficulty that we have in getting up will go away only if you do it regularly. So make this regular. Make tahajjud Fard on yourself. At least two rakat, no matter where you are, whether you are at home, whether you are traveling or wherever you are, pray two rakat, make dua in sujood and inshaAllah Allah will accept your duas. I ask Allah to accept your duas with khair and afia. Always make this dua to say, Allahumma inni as'aluka al-afia. Al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, who asked Rasulullah ﷺ, who was his nephew, he said, teach me a dua which is small but which encompasses everything. And he said to him, oh my uncle, make this dua. Allahumma inni as'aluka al-afia. Oh Allah, give me afia. Give me blessing, give me afia. Afia is every single kind of blessing. Because if you ask, everything has a downside to it. Wealth has a downside to it. Children have a downside to it. Spouses have a downside to them. The world has a downside to it. Power and authority has a huge downside to it. And so on and so forth. The way to save yourself from the downside is to ask for afia. Oh Allah, give me such and such with afia. Allah ﷻ to grant all our duas with afia. Let us make Ramadan this boot camp to give us and put us into the habit of starting our day with tahajjud. Every single day. Start the day with tahajjud. Then pray and I will give you a little formula which I hope will be beneficial for you. But start the day with tahajjud without exception. No matter where you are. We ask Allah ﷻ to make this easy for us and to give us the sweetness of this thing which Allah ﷻ prays in the Quran. And He told us that He has prepared a special reward for the people who pray tahajjud. May Allah make us all among people who pray tahajjud.