[Machine] O people, a tremendous month has cast its shade over you—a blessed month, in which there is a night better than a thousand months. God Most High has made its fasting an obligation and its night vigil a voluntary act. Whoever draws near to God in it with a single good deed is like one who has fulfilled an obligatory duty in other than it; and whoever fulfills an obligatory duty in it is like one who has fulfilled seventy obligatory duties in other than it.

It is the month of patience, and the reward for patience is Paradise; and the month of mutual compassion and sharing; and a month in which the provision of the believer is increased. Whoever gives a fasting person something with which to break the fast will have forgiveness for his sins, and emancipation from the Fire, and will have a reward equal to the fasting person’s reward, without anything being diminished from the fasting person’s reward. God Most High grants this reward to whoever gives a fasting person a sip of milk, or a date, or a drink of water; and whoever satisfies a fasting person with food, God will give him a drink from my Basin, after which he will never thirst until he enters Paradise.

It is a month whose beginning is mercy, whose middle is forgiveness, and whose end is emancipation from the Fire. So increase in it four qualities: two by which you please your Lord, and two you cannot do without. As for the two by which you please your Lord: bearing witness that there is no god but God, and seeking forgiveness. And as for the two you cannot do without: you ask God for Paradise, and you seek refuge with Him from the Fire.

«يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ، قَدْ أَظَلَّكُمْ شَهْرٌ عَظِيمٌ، شَهْرٌ مُبَارَكٌ، شَهْرٌ فِيهِ لَيْلَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ. جَعَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى صِيَامَهُ فَرِيضَةً، وَقِيَامَهُ تَطَوُّعًا. مَنْ تَقَرَّبَ فِيهِ بِخَصْلَةٍ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ كَانَ كَمَنْ أَدَّى فَرِيضَةً فِيمَا سِوَاهُ، وَمَنْ أَدَّى فَرِيضَةً فِيهِ كَانَ كَمَنْ أَدَّى سَبْعِينَ فَرِيضَةً فِيمَا سِوَاهُ.

وَهُوَ شَهْرُ الصَّبْرِ، وَالصَّبْرُ ثَوَابُهُ الْجَنَّةُ، وَشَهْرُ الْمُوَاسَاةِ، وَشَهْرٌ يُزَادُ فِيهِ رِزْقُ الْمُؤْمِنِ. مَنْ فَطَّرَ فِيهِ صَائِمًا كَانَ لَهُ مَغْفِرَةٌ لِذُنُوبِهِ، وَعِتْقُ رَقَبَةٍ مِنَ النَّارِ، وَكَانَ لَهُ مِثْلُ أَجْرِهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَنْقُصَ مِنْ أَجْرِهِ شَيْءٌ. يُعْطِي اللَّهُ تَعَالَى هَذَا الثَّوَابَ مَنْ فَطَّرَ صَائِمًا عَلَى مَذْقَةِ لَبَنٍ، أَوْ تَمْرَةٍ، أَوْ شَرْبَةٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ، وَمَنْ أَشْبَعَ صَائِمًا سَقَاهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ حَوْضِي شَرْبَةً لَا يَظْمَأُ بَعْدَهَا حَتَّى يَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ.

وَهُوَ شَهْرٌ أَوَّلُهُ رَحْمَةٌ، وَأَوْسَطُهُ مَغْفِرَةٌ، وَآخِرُهُ عِتْقٌ مِنَ النَّارِ. فَاسْتَكْثِرُوا فِيهِ مِنْ أَرْبَعِ خِصَالٍ: خَصْلَتَانِ تُرْضُونَ بِهِمَا رَبَّكُمْ، وَخَصْلَتَانِ لَا غِنَى لَكُمْ عَنْهُمَا. فَأَمَّا الْخَصْلَتَانِ اللَّتَانِ تُرْضُونَ بِهِمَا رَبَّكُمْ فَشَهَادَةُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ، وَالِاسْتِغْفَارُ، وَأَمَّا اللَّتَانِ لَا غِنَى لَكُمْ عَنْهُمَا فَتَسْأَلُونَ اللَّهَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَتَتَعَوَّذُونَ بِهِ مِنَ النَّارِ».