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What makes us great before Allah? During Ramadan, we did plenty of virtuous deeds to impress Allah. We stood so long in prayers, we fasted and gave a great deal of charity day and night in Ramadan in the hope that Allah would give us great rewards and forgiveness in return. But we might have missed something important here. Abu Hurayrah reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Take up good deeds only as much as you are able, for the good deeds are those done regularly even if they are few." (Sunan Ibn Majah, 4240) It's not about how long you can stand in prayer or how much you can give in charity either. It's all about consistency or what we call persistence (istiqamah). So it's okay if you only did small deeds in Ramadan because those small deeds can turn into good deeds if you keep doing it outside of Ramadan and even until you die. It's been the tradition of our predecessors to preserve the good deeds until they die. There's a hadeeth ...