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Our main problem today is that we don't prepare for our worships. We prepare for everything except our worship. And then we complain. Why am I not connecting with the worship? Why can I not feel a connection with my worship and with Allah? The answer is very simple, because you haven't prepared for it. We want to pray the fard right away. We want to fast Ramadan right away from the day one until the end. And that's it. We don't want anything to do before that, anything to do after that. That's the state of the majority of the Muslims. And this is why that the month of Sha'ba now is the month of preparation for Ramadan when Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam emphasized and highlighted the importance of this month that we are in now. You know, there are some people as we come closer to Ramadan, they kick back, they sit, they relax. We're waiting for Ramadan to begin. So they do their shopping. They start preparing for a month of. They start preparing, purchasing food, overloading the fridge and the cupboards, and whatever it is in preparation of a month that has nothing to do with food. And this is the preparation. Unfortunately, this is not the correct preparation for Ramadan Shaban this month that we're in. I tell you something, it's the month Al Ulama considered it like the Sunnah before the fard, you know, before you come, before, for example, before you pray Salat al Fajr, it's Recommend you pray 2 rakat sunnah, then the fard tayyip ramadan 30 days is the fard Shaban the month before. It is actually the Sunnah before the fard. And so what should we be doing in Shaba? You should be doing exactly what is done in Ramadan. What is done in Ramadan? Fasting, reading Quran, night prayers. Shaban this month is actually known as Shahrul Qurra. It's known as the month of the recitation of the Quran. Just like Ramadan, as Salaf rahimahum Allah. They used to cause Yorli kohanutahu. He used to close his store, his shops, and they used to begin to recite the Quran in abundance. This is when in the month of Shaban, in Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to fast the month of Shaban. He used to fast at all, except a few days. Maybe he broke his fast one or two days of Shaban. So he fasts 28 days of Shaban, breaks his fast in preparation for Ramadan, and then Shaban also is a month known for its night prayers as well. The believers pray the nights. You see, the exact same things that are done in Ramadan should also be done in Shaban. That's how the believer prepares now. So, you know, those that don't prepare and don't see the significance of Shaban, what happens, especially people that never fast and they used their coffee in the mornings the first day of Ramadan, big headache, vomiting, do all this vomit and headaches here now, in this month, you prepare. Now get over and done with that. So that when Ramadan begins from day one, you're already used to this, and you're going into the month nice and smooth, and you're taking advantage of the first day of Ramadan. Right? So this is why preparation is very important.