Message from the Eminent Scholar Ash-Sheikh Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah to the visitors of his webpages on the occasion of the arrival of the Blessed Month of Ramadan for the year of 1436 AH corresponding to 2015 CE (Translated)

All Praise belongs to Allah, and prayers and peace upon the Messenger of Allah (saw) and upon his family, companions and those who follow him,To the great Islamic Ummah, the best Ummah to be raised up for humankind…

To the carriers of the Da’wah, those true men who are not diverted by trade and business from the remembrance of Allah…

To the honourable visitors of the page, those who love goodness and its people and work in accordance to it…

Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakaatuhu,

I invoke blessings for you all upon the arrival of the blessed month:

﴿شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَىٰ وَالْفُرْقَانِ﴾

“The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion” [2:85].

And I ask Allah Subhaanahu to accept from all of the Muslims their fasting and their standing in prayer and for it to represent a start for goodness and blessing and for it to represent the prelude to the establishment of the rightly guided Khilafah. The Ummah will then find shade by the Rayah of the ‘Uqaab, the Rayah of ‘Laa Ilaaha Illallah, Muhammadur Rasoolullah’ and then it will return, as it had been: a noble Ummah, strongly attached to its Lord and to its Deen:

﴿وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ * بِنَصْرِ اللَّـهِ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَاءُ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ﴾

“And on that day the believers will rejoice. With the victory of Allah, (He) grants victory to whom he wills and He is Al-Azeez Ar-Raheem” [30:4-5].

And in conclusion, I extend Salaam to all of you. I ask Allah to grant you goodness and to accept the fasting and standing in prayer. And Allah Almighty supports and protects the Saaliheen (righteous).

Was Salaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakaatuhu,

Your brother,
Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah