40. Don't Lose Your Hard Work On “Chand Raat”, The Night Before Eid

By Asma bint Shameem

You’ve worked SO hard this Ramadhaan.

You fasted.
You prayed.
You stayed up nights.
You read the Qur'aan.
You made taubah....

Those are a LOT of good deeds for sure. Alhamdulillaah!

And your hard work was amazing.

May Allaah accept ALL of them and MORE. Ameen

Now don't SPOIL all those hard earned good deeds by doing things that may be displeasing to Allaah, on the night before Eid, when Ramadhaan ends.

Things such as listening to music, girls going out not properly covered, guys mixing with girls, neglecting your Salaah, smoking hookah, or a'oodhu billaah something even worse.

And all this in the name of celebrating *"Chaand Raat"*, the night before Eid?!

Did you know that bad deeds may ERASE some good ones?

Find it hard to believe?

Here are some examples:

The Prophet Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam said:

“Whoever does not pray ‘Asr, his (good) deeds are cancelled out.” (al-Bukhaari)

Once a man said about another: "By Allaah, Allaah will not forgive So and so.

Allaah said: ‘Who is the one who swore by Me that I will not forgive So and so? I have forgiven So and so and I have cancelled out your good deeds." (Muslim)

Hudhayfah radhi Allaahu anhu said:
"Slandering a chaste innocent woman cancels out the good deeds of a hundred years."

 And Ata said:
"A man may say a word in anger that destroys the good deeds of sixty or seventy years."

 Al-Fadl ibn Ziyaad said: "No one of you can be sure that he will not steal a glance that will cancel out his good deeds."

My brothers and sisters!

Just think.....How many ‘glances’ are ‘stolen’ on this "Chaand Raat"!

Ibn al-Qayyim said:

"The things that cancel out or spoil good deeds are *too many to count.
It is not the deeds that count, rather it is the *protection of one's good deeds from that which may spoil them or cancel them out." (Al-Waabil al-Sayyib)

Side note:

There's nothing wrong with celebrating the end of Ramadhaan and thanking Allaah for being able to worship Him by gathering with family and friends, enjoying food and drink, girls can apply Henna, and even sing to the daff amongst themselves.

But don't cross the limits set by Allaah.

Don't get involved in His disobedience and ruin all your hard work.

Don't even come CLOSE to that which you KNOW is wrong.

Otherwise you’re at the risk of losing SOME or ALL of your good deeds and your hard work.

So PROTECT it.
PRESERVE it.
And don’t LOSE it.

It’s just NOT worth it.