#Ramadan is in a few days inshallah

[dashingwishes]

Happy first day of spring everyone 🌷

May your mind and heart be filled with love always ♥️

[notetaeker]

April 28, 2023 -  Friday

Back to regularly scheduled posting! Thankfully the exams for my classes were pushed back a week probably to give time to people after Ramadan so that’s what I’m working on. The past few days since Eid have been very hectic mentally, emotionally, and physically- inshallah hoping to get myself together today! Jumuah Mubarak everyone!

[mrsq8geek]

Ramadan Challenge 2024, Day 1

What are your goals this Ramadan? Possible suggestions: 1 habit to build, 1 habit to break, and one accomplishment you hope to gain!

It's early on the first day as I write this, my suhoor hasn't even digested yet.  I wish I had a nice answer for this question, but the fact is I'm just trying to survive it in one piece.  Ramadan this year falls in a somewhat difficult time for my family where we can't afford, well, time.  It's wishful thinking to assume our schedule will allow for any additional thing when we're already living in half-hour chunks from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep.

That being said, I do have goals! They're just not what you'd expect, like trying to do a khatma.  That's unlikely.  Instead, besides just trying to survive, I'm really hoping that the schedule change during Ramadan allows me to implement any one of the changes I'm trying to do anyway.

1. Be more mindful when I read Quran (even 5 minutes of mindfulness is better for me than 20 minutes of blind reading).

2. Be more consistent in my son's education at home (30-40 minutes skills work before school isn't that much time per day but it'll have a huge impact over time!).

3. Carve out time in the day for my physical health (even if you manage 5-10 minutes of walking before or after futoor, it's something!).

4. Do better at housekeeping this mess (~1-2 hours regularly or daily beats 4 hours once or twice a week).

5. Dedicate time to support husband's Ramadan goals (sitting with him for 15 minutes to keep him on track is still more than letting him rely on his poor executive functioning skills).

6. Tackle the backlog.  There's always a backlog, but right now a few items that have been left undone too long are having consequences, especially the things affecting my health and my family.

7. Mental health.  The way I've been letting it decline hasn't been helping anyone. It's hard work to sit with your demons, but it's Ramadan, so they're all chained up!

8. Bite the bullet around well-meaning but ultimately tactless family and/or friends. Socializing is difficult.

I wish I had time to do all of them, but getting even one or two going would be nice.

They're mostly the kinds of goals that are stepping stones on the way to more luxurious, privileged goals like having the time, health, and resources to attend taraweeh daily.  Maybe in another year or two, inshallah we'll see easier Ramadans.

There is nothing more I can do for our brothers and sisters in Palestine than what I'm already doing.  If nothing else, put in a daily click.

Oh, and I really like this goal setting sheet from this year.

Day 2

[rainofthetwilight]

كل عام وانت بألف ألف خير، يا رب ينعاد علينا وعليكم بالصحة والعافية

Listen, I know I said I'll be back with more cookies, but it's Eid, so you're getting ma3mool instead. Annnd I just realized I don't know what type of ma3mool you like, بس انا عن نفسي بحب معمول أساور so that's what you're getting lol 😅

Anyway,

surprise ma3mool attack

(Just imagine a bunch of ma3mool flying at you; I can't insert images in anon)

Oh, and I just saw your reply to my previous ask, the one I sent on Ramadan, and you said you liked butter cookies. Ngl, I had to search that up, and my first thought was علبة الخياطة؟؟؟, bUT YEAH, YOU'RE ALSO GETTING THAT

(side note, but you're so sweet I'm gonna cry; I'm so sorry for worrying you, girl [also, hi, Finn and Anura if you see this!])

I hope you have a wonderful Eid; enjoy it to the max <333

(one last last thing, expect me in your ao3 inbox soon because I realized a few days ago that I've only read one of your fics [and forgot to comment on it] and that is, in my opinion, a crime from my part lol. So yes, I am coming for your fics)

TARA!!! WELCOME BACK AND EID MUBARAK!!! :DDDD

كل سنة وانت طيبة وبالففف خير حبيبتي ربنا يخليكي، ويا رب العيد ده يكون عيد سعيد ليكي ولكل احبابك انشاء الله!!! 💗💗💗

AHDHJSJSAHSJJA don't worry about the cookies, I think I got enough already 😭 (my parents got like..3 boxes full of cookies from el 3abd, 2 of them are all biscu masr cookies, and they got kunafah with nuts too SHJDSK, we're probably gonna take some with us along with the cake to the family gathering 👍)

ALSO HECK YEAH MA3MOOL I LOVE MA3MOOL!!!!! :DDDD BRACING THE INCOMING MA3MOOL ATTACK DHEJFJWJKFMS

انا بصراحة ماجربتش معمول اساور قبل كده بس انا عموما بحب المعمول ف اي حاجة شغالة معايا، ف شكرا اوي على المعمول!!! :DDD

AJJDJAJ AND THANK YOU FOR THE BUTTER COOKIES!!! :DD بس على فكره انت صح, انا فعلا بحب علبة الخياطة انا كنت فعلا اقصد ب دول، انا بعشقهم اوييي 💪

AND AWWDHJDJS YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S SWEET 😭 AND DON'T WORRY ABT ANYTHING!!! whatever reason u deactivated for is immediately understandable!! I just hope you're doing alright and that everything is well!!! <3333

I hope you have an absolutely amazing eid as well!!!! :DDD 💞💞💞 here, have some balloons and flowers from me as a gift <333 🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺🎈🌺🌹🌺

FJDJJSAHSJJ inshallah I'll await your arrival in my ao3 inbox fellow tumblr mutual 💪💪 again hope you have a happy eid habibty and take care!!! :DDDD 💞💞💞

[desicowgirl]

salam 😊 how has your ramadaan been so far this year!

WalikumAsalaam! 🌸 Alhumdillah it’s been really beneficial. I think this Ramadan has been the most impactful one I’ve had 🙏🏼 last year was my first Ramadan back after leaving Islam for a couple years and I was still pretty shaky in all honesty. My ibadah was just no where near where I wanted it to be or where it should have been — but this year I’ve been surrounded by a really good foundation so I’m very thankful for that 🌟! Praying taraweeh, reaching my Quran goals, iftaar with friends, Jummah every Friday, and just overall more clarity and a stronger relationship with Allah SWT - so Alhumdillah 😊 only thing it’s missing is being more active in the Masjid but I’ve done a few things this last month so I can’t complain too much 🫡 I think truly what make Ramadan so much more beneficial was understanding it’s interconnectedness with the idea of achieving Taqwa. I’m very thankful to the mentor in my life for guiding me to have that realization, but yeah! I still have so much more I can learn and better myself in and so I can Allah SWT to allow me and all of us to make it to the next Ramadan 🙏🏼

thank you for asking! Inshallah I hope yours was amazing 🙏🏼 and May Allah SWT keep us going strong in these last few days !!!! Ramadan Mubarak <3

[studyywithmee]

25/03/2023

I went out with my friends few days ago and had a blast! We walked and went to a lot of small cafés and it was just super fun. We watched a movie - UNLOCKED. We didn't finish it as wee were busy talking lol. I am planning on starting korean from scratch inshallah! Let's see how it goes from today! The fasting is going quite well alhamdulillah ✨ and for you guys? How is ramadan by far so well? Hmm yea that's it for today i guess!

[a-dream-deferred]

✨ramadan challenge 2023

we don’t usually have rain this time of the year, but it’s been raining the past few days! 

Day 3: What type of worship comes the easiest to you?

reading qur’an. i’ve had the privilege of being educated in standard/classical arabic and tajwid etc. so alhamdulillah reciting the qur’an comes easy for me. however, i have a bad tendency to recite rather mindlessly sometimes, simply reading the words without dwelling upon the meanings, so i’m trying to put more effort into that inshallah.

Day 4: Ramadan is the month of the qur'an. What is an ayah from the Qur'an that has changed your view of things or impacted you deeply?

this is a difficult question for an indecisive person like me T^T i would have to say the dua of musa peace be upon him in surah taha (20:25-28)

Day 5: Share a memory of Ramadan from your childhood or when you first embraced Islam

where i lived during my early childhood, the masjid was very kid-friendly, so i have lots of memories of praying taraweeh, playing with other kids, being babysat by older girls, putting henna before eid... those were good times :’)

[navramanan]

i loooove ramadan because it's a dedicated period of time for me to get my life together. but it always bothers me that i'm not motivated throughout the whole 30 days, y'know?

halfway through i find myself resenting it because i'm so over the fasting & want to get back to "normal" life. and i know that's such a horrible mindset to have because the last ten days are the most important of the 30 😕 and it also doesn't help that periods are there to ruin the momentum lol

anyway, how do you feel about this? (the motivation, not the periods LMAO) i'd love to know your thoughts as a practicising muslim 💗

ps. your rant about muslims doing basic things like fasting in ramadan & praying 5 times a day made me laugh for days. i still laugh whenever i think about it

ramadan kareem to you & ur family!

Ramaden kareem to you lot as well 🫂

I totally get the losing momentum part it's so annoying 😭😭 getting my period kinda ruins part of it for me too, especially when i get it at the start or in the middle. For me it's also been hard to get into the ramadan spirit these past few years, i guess it's a combination of living in the west, going to uni away from my family and not yet having found my place in a muslim community. It actually feels so surreal to me that ramadan starts tomorrow. But it's coming at a perfect time for me because for the past week i've been in a reeeeaally weird spot iman wise and it scares me, i want to find my way back. Inshallah ramadan helps to guide me 🥺🥺🥺 i think tho it's normal to not be fully motivated for the whole of it? Because 30 days is a long time to maintain motivation so i dont think we should beat ourselves up for it too much. But right, it's unfortunate because the last 10 days are especially important. I think if you sit down and make a rough plan for yourself considering the drop in motivation, your ramadan may be more fruitful for you. Thank you for this ask, i always love connecting with muslims, may Allah bless you and guide us all❣️❣️❣️

[mariacallous]

Dagestan has long been a reliable source of personnel for the Russian army. In peacetime, while eligible conscripts in other regions would seek ways to evade mandatory service, young men in Dagestan would pay bribes to enlist. That’s not necessarily because they were eager to experience military life; a stint in the army is effectively a prerequisite to getting a public-sector job, and government service is the best-paying and most stable career track available in the region. But Dagestanis have shown far less enthusiasm for the military since Russia invaded Ukraine last year — and it’s no wonder, given that they were drafted in disproportionately high numbers, and that Dagestan lost more residents in the first few months of the full-scale war than almost any other region of Russia. After Putin announced mobilization in September, Dagestan had some of the country’s largest protests, prompting a brutal police crackdown. With the war in Ukraine approaching its one-year mark, a journalist from the independent Russian outlet iStories went to Dagestan to see how residents feel about military service, mobilization, and the war in Ukraine. In English, Meduza is publishing an abridged version of the dispatch.

‘We’re used to respecting the authorities’

We’re in an addressless one-story building in a small mountain village in southern Dagestan. An older woman named Patimat is sitting in an armchair behind a wooden table and dicing pieces of cow liver. She and her daughter-in-law started buying the cheap protein source from their neighbors back in the fall. Chickens and ducks roam around their property, but the family doesn’t eat those anymore: “Those are the meat pies we send to my oldest son, who’s at the front.” Forty-year-old Ramadan was drafted in September.

“To be honest, I still can’t tell if he wanted to be called up or not,” Patimat says. “But the draft order came. A lot of people here got them, by the way. Not everybody went.”

“What other option did they have?” asks the iStories correspondent.

“Some people paid the doctor, while others paid [the enlistment officers] directly. They told everyone the price right from the start,” answers Sabiyat, the wife of Patimat’s youngest son. “That’s not something we respect… Nobody respects cowardice. Ramadan said that if he hides, and if others hide, who will be left to protect the motherland? Doesn’t somebody have to go? He’s always been a real man.”

Sabiyat’s own husband is exempt from the draft due to health problems.

“Are the rest of the men really looked down upon now?”

“At first, yeah, that was the case. But then ‘the rest of the men’ became our whole village, except for our Ramadan,” Sabiyat says. “And things died down.”

“They died down,” Patimat repeats, rubbing her bloodshot eyes.

When Vladimir Putin announced mobilization, Ramadan was off working in Moscow. When he learned that a draft order had come for him, he immediately went to Derbent to “figure everything out.”

“I asked him to wait ten days so he could pack, spend some time at home before going to war, and give us time to talk,” his mother says. “He said, ’No, I’m going right now.’ Well, inshallah [God willing]. It’s up to him. I worry about him, of course, but I supported my son. What makes a man beautiful, if not his courage?”

In the five months since Ramadan was drafted, according to his family, he hasn’t received a single payment. Patimat paid for his body armor, helmet, and warm clothes herself; she transferred 50,000 rubles (about $670) to the bank account of “one of the commanders.”

None of Ramadan’s relatives know where he is. Their phone calls with him are so short that they haven’t even been able to ask whether he’s received the homemade food they’ve sent him.

Suddenly, the iStories correspondent hears children laughing: four-year-old Zakhra and two-year-old Ibad, Ramadan’s niece and nephew, burst into the room with a toy dump truck. Sabiyat lifts Ibad up into her arms to feed him some liver.

“Even our kids know about war,” she says. “On May 9, at the kindergarten, we always used to have to bring camouflage uniforms.”

“What about now?” asks the iStories correspondent. “Are [the kindergarteners] still told about the war, like elementary school students are?”

“I don’t know. We’re used to respecting the authorities,” Sabiyat says, lowering her voice. “And the kindergarten teacher is part of the authorities. I can’t ask her about anything. It wouldn’t be appropriate.”

‘You’re the ones going off to die for me’

From a cursory glance at the streets of any Dagestani city, it would be easy to think that Russia hasn’t been waging war against Ukraine for the last year. Most of the food products that have disappeared due to Western sanctions have been replaced by their Turkish or Iranian equivalents, and the stores that have blue and yellow IKEA signs hanging out front were full of locally made lamps and Turkish carpets even before the war.

It’s not rare to see “Z” symbols around the republic, but they’re definitely not as common as in Moscow. The only exception is southern Dagestan, where pro-war stickers adorn storefronts, cars, and restaurant windows.

Zarifa, a civil servant in the southern city of Derbent, proudly tells iStories about how she recently sent 205,000 rubles ($3,346) to volunteer fighters in Grozny.

“They started to thank me. I said, ‘What are you thanking me for? You’re the ones going off to die for me, for my security!’” she says.

In the fall, Zarifa and some of her friends started sending meat and hingels to the front. One of her colleagues involved in the initiative, Farida, starts to cry as she talks about it; her brother has been at the front for months now.

“Sometimes, we don’t hear anything from him for months at a time. Evidently, they don’t give them access to their phones,” she says, wiping her eyes with a handkerchief.

“Are you crying? Doesn’t the government give him the equipment he needs? Is he hungry? Is he sleeping in the cold?” Zarifa asks sharply.

“I’m not complaining, of course. He’s doing fine. As fine as he can be,” Farida responds.

Zarifa’s husband doesn’t have to worry about getting called up; he’s a high-ranking security official. Their eight-year-old daughter studies in a prestigious private school, where, in addition to gymnastics, dance, and English-language classes, she attends Russia’s government-imposed “patriotism” class: “Conversations About What’s Important.”

“Mom, do you know why the Ukrainians are angry at us?” her daughter asks when she gets home from school. “Everybody left the country to come to Russia, and the government got offended — so now they’re waging war against us. And I hate their president, Zelensky, too!”

“That’s my smart girl,” Zarifa says, giving her a kiss. “I try not to discuss politics at home, but her school shapes [her views] too. The other kids probably had people [from their families] go to the front, as did their teacher. And now Jamila hates him [Zelensky] — for making our people, from Derbent, have to go there.”

‘The Quran prohibits it’

Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, was the site of one of Russia’s largest anti-mobilization protests, which lasted for days. Law enforcement responded brutally to the demonstrations, using stun guns, batons, and pepper spray to disperse protesters, arresting at least 200 people. In the days that followed, the local Investigative Committee opened at least 30 criminal cases.

On September 25, more than 100 people blocked the Khasavyurt-Makhachkala Federal Highway near the northern Dagestani village of Endirey. Police ultimately fired guns in the air to make them leave.

One of those protesters was a 38-year-old Endirey resident named Gulyusa. She told iStories that she didn’t want her husband or her sons to die in a war that she doesn’t support.

“My heart began to ache back in February. I thought that, in Dagestan, everybody would condemn the war; after all, there’s not a single family who didn’t lose someone in the Chechen [Wars],” she says. “And that’s basically what happened. Nobody supported it, and everybody hoped it wouldn’t affect them. My youngest son is still 14. It’s not clear how long this will last for, but I hope it’s less than four years.”

After Gulyusa’s oldest son, 19-year-old Musa, received a draft order, the family decided it was no longer safe for him at home, so they went to Makhachkala. Now, unable to enroll in a university or get an official job, he works under the table assembling furniture. When he comes home to join his family for a meal, he travels incognito, always using other people’s cars.

And though her youngest son, seventh-grader Ilyas, is too young for the draft, the war has affected him, too.

“Today, there was almost nothing for me to do [at school]: we had free time instead of P.E., and I don’t go to ‘Conversations About What’s Important,’” he told iStories.

“Just you?”

“No — almost nobody goes,” he says, laughing. “At first, the school tried to fix it by going through our parents, but the adults themselves say that these lessons aren’t really school; they’re not subjects like math or English, so we shouldn’t be required to be there. I went to two [of these] lessons in September. One was about cosmonauts and the other was about Russian songs. Usually, I go for a walk during that time, or eat breakfast at home, or study biology. I want to become a doctor.”

“Maybe by then, they won’t be drafting doctors anymore,” Gulyusa says with a sigh.

Gulyusa’s family goes to an elderly mullah whose family continued practicing Islam throughout the entire Soviet period. Nowhere, he’s told her, does the Quran say that Muslims are required to protect non-Muslims, so — from a religious perspective — nobody from Endirey is obligated to go to Ukraine. On the other hand, the mullah says, the Quran does prohibit murdering innocent people, placing it on par with killing all of humanity. “If a man fears [obeys] Allah, he won’t go [to fight in Ukraine],” the mullah has said.

“The mullah isn’t afraid of the consequences? It sounds to me like he’s turned a lot of people [against the war],” asks the iStories correspondent.

“Everyone in Endirey will stand up for him,” she says. “What can they do to a respected man like him?”

‘Allah should help’

Islam, an Avar who lives in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt, and his wife, a Chechen woman named Aishat, wanted to join the September protests, but they simply couldn’t make it: they’re raising seven kids, all under the age of ten.

One of Islam’s younger brothers was drafted, and he didn’t try to resist. According to Islam, he’s a “straightforward, honest person, so when the order came, he went [to the enlistment office].” The family hasn’t heard from him since October.

“It was a sin for me not to save him; I’m the oldest,” Islam laments, rocking his newborn son. “I probably should have hidden him. Our imam said afterwards that it’s more shameful to kill a non-Muslim on his own land than to hide in your home.”

The family can’t afford to emigrate; one of their daughters was born with cerebral palsy, and they’ve spent all of their savings on her treatment.

Ibragim, another one of Islam’s brothers, runs a shoe shop in town together with a friend. A draft order came for him in September, but he tore it up. He says he’s not afraid to stay in Khasavyurt.

“Some people were saying that the imam would keep the recruiters away from all of his students, though I don’t know if that’s possible without paying,” Ibragim says. “On the other hand, Allah should help, I think. If you refuse to go kill people because of your faith, then you’re on a certain path that the state has no power over.”

* * *

After the trip to Khasavyurt, amid talk of a new round of mobilization, the iStories correspondent received a call from Ibragim, who was now in Uzbekistan. He said he decided to help Allah protect him, and that he now plans to wait things out while abroad. He’s promised his brother and his business partner that he’ll return as soon as possible.

“I mean, it can’t last another year,” he said. “Can it?”

[harryforvogue]

OMG RAMADAN MUBARAK I DIDNT KNOW U WERE MUSLIM HEHHE WHAT DID U HAVE FOR SEHRI AND WHAT ARE PLANS FOR IFTAR I AM HOPING TO CHONK SOME CHICKEN TENDIES INSHALLAH

THANK U!!!! i've been sick the past few days so i haven't been fasting but i usually just have iftari food again for sehri!

[waanhurda]

talked with fatima today and alhamdullilah, our spiritual connection has been proven time and time again

fatima went to a poetry event after iftar and met two girls, one somali named Najma and one Sudani named Nama. She said the Somali girl was a lovely, bubbly poet who had published her own poetry book who reminded her of me and the Sunday girl just graduated from law school. they hung out and ended up having suhoor together

she said it felt like last ramadan all over again where we spent so much time together, and she almost cried! alhamdullilah i love our connection, i will truly never get over how deep it runs.

since we first reconnected we have been sharing poetry with each other, collecting them to put into a shared poetry book one day inshallah. we had both found poetry again seperately but at the same time.

now we connected again today after not speaking for a few months and we have both moved on to painting/drawing and shared our peices with one another

fatima is my soul mate, i love you sm friend ♥️

[mrsq8geek]

Ramadan Challenge 2024, Day 4

Day 4: Ramadan is the month of the qur'an. What is an ayah from the Qur'an that has changed your view of things or impacted you deeply (this year)?

وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مَخْرَجًۭا (٢) And whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make a way out for them, وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ ۚ وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بَـٰلِغُ أَمْرِهِۦ ۚ قَدْ جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدْرًۭا (٣) and provide for them from sources they could never imagine. And whoever puts their trust in Allah, then He ˹alone˺ is sufficient for them. Certainly Allah achieves His Will. Allah has already set a destiny for everything.

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran Surah Al-Talaq aya 2-3

This isn't from this year, it's actually from April 2013.  I was going through such a hard time and completely losing hope in everything.  It was one of the few times in my life I actually felt ungrateful to god because I couldn't see the point of everything I was going through.  I felt embarrassed for being ungrateful as soon as I felt it, because clearly I was doing better than a lot of people.  I was just lost and couldn't think what to do next.  So I said whatever dua came to mind for guidance, just prayed from the heart because I felt helpless and powerless in my situation.  This was the aya that got me through an incredibly dark time, a crucial fork in the road when I really needed courage to speak up for myself or risk suffering potentially devastating consequences for the rest of my life.

I still keep the ajr in mind for my daily tasks, even if I don't specifically refer to this aya in particular in daily life.  But it's always there for me to fall back on.

Diary for today:

Writing this before I go do the final preparation for futoor.  Today the hunger pangs are working together with PMS cramps.  I can't even cough without feeling it.  The PMS headache and lower back pain aren't helping either.  I have the privilege of being able to be kind to myself today: since I'm too physically weak for much, I mostly slept, then when I woke up, did less than usual.  I have that option and the rest will allow me to recover my strength inshallah.

I saw that the Oscars are trending on tumblr these past couple of days. Listen, I understand celebrating our website-wide certified holiday, the Ides of March, but y'all really said let's not talk about the Oscars and then did.  And you know what?  I get it.  Unless you're the one in the situation, you won't be able to keep on that one note, because you've got a life outside of it. 

Maintenance is hard work.  These fights are marathons, not sprints, although the sprints definitely help, too!  I'm wondering to wear for Eid even as I hold my breath over the inevitable atrocities they're planning for Palestine's Eid.  I just hope that even if people don't turn up for Palestine every day, enough of them do for some change to take place.

Daily click as much a reminder for myself.

Day 1 | Day 3 | Day 5

[dashingwishes]

Very late but I stumbled across your lovely blog!!! Ramadan Mubarak friend!💖💗🫶 I hope this a productive and healing month for you! Hope you and your family are well💖💖😄 I shall probably say hello again when it’s Eid inshallah :]

Oh my this is so nice. I’ve been feeling very sick for the past few days because something I ate not sure. I’m sure It’s food poison 🥺 but also no you’re not late at all as you know we fast for 30 days so Ramadan isn’t over yet. I can’t wait for Eid as well. Thank you so much sweet and thoughtful messages like these make me never want to leave Tumblr I appreciate them so much 🩵✨🫶🏻

[ibadst]

THE BETTER WAY Of Ramadan #ramadan #ramadan #quran #muftimenk

THE BETTER WAY Of Ramadan

my beloved Brothers the first request I have is for you to put your phones down

inshallah we are recording this and we will make it available on YouTube by the will of Allah

in the house of Allah to have everyone stand and everyone's phones come up and

all the lights shine bright personally I think it's a disturbance

not only for the speaker but even for the others who want to concentrate

my brothers and sisters I start off with the Dua a supplication a prayer may Allah forgive all of us may Allah grant

us steadfastness may Allah be pleased with us may Allah alleviate the suffering of all those who are

struggling across the globe may Allah Grant ease in all your lives whoever is struggling in whatever way

may Allah Grant you ease may Allah answer our duas obviously the Halal ones

may Allah Say Amen may Allah Almighty protect us from Haram

may Allah Almighty make us realize that we need to develop a relationship with

him and make it easy for us I was told to speak about utilizing your

time during the month of Ramadan how to do it perhaps the preparation the run-up to the month of Ramadan

and I think one of the most important things for us to note is why the fasting was prescribed in the first place on

simple reason made mention of directly why did Allah tell us to fast

he says that's the reason oh you who believe fasting has been

prescribed upon you just like it was to those before you in order that you achieve takawa what is taqwa when you

hear people speak about it they say the consciousness of Allah the fear of Allah

what else do they say they say various other things

I'm sure you've heard consciousness of Allah I'm sure you've heard

the fear of Allah there was a question that someone raised

a few years back which resulted in a beautiful explanation that I want to share with you

they said the question from a young lad why should I

be scared of Allah meaning that when you say fear of Allah fear Allah you know

it's a good question one of the primary things you and I need

to understand is the consciousness of Allah which means

to know that he is your lord he made you he he is in control of everything on

Earth and you are going to helplessly go back to him helplessly go back to him

meaning the day you are in your last no one and nothing will be able to delay

You by a moment

if only you knew when the fixed time of Allah comes for you or for anything or

anyone it will not be delayed not even by a moment you gotta go you gotta go

you could have had all the wealth on Earth or all the health on Earth but

your time is up it's up something will happen to ensure that you're gone so I need to be conscious of that all

the time all the time I need to keep thinking about the fact that I came from

somewhere I am somewhere and I'm going somewhere Consciousness but the fear of

Allah do I worship Allah because I'm scared of him

good question right when you're scared of someone what type of a relationship would you have so you

need to put the sphere of Allah into context what is the context there is a

way of explaining it or there are perhaps more than one way there is more than one way of explaining it perhaps

but here's one so when you love someone and you love

them dearly think about someone you love you love them so much

I'm sure you guys have someone in your minds right oh the way you're nodding your head I

hope it's Halal bro you have someone in your mind I love

this person so much right would you do anything to hurt them would you do

anything to be in their bad book so the relationship

is Disturbed would you do something like that the answer is no why don't you want to

do something because I don't want to spoil this relation that I have do you understand what I'm saying so I fear

spoiling the relationship with the one I love so this fear is born out of

tremendous love you understand the point because I love Allah so much I fear

getting into the bad books you see what I'm saying so takua is

if you look at the Deep explanation that some have given they have said

taqwa comes from the term wikaya which refers to a barrier so create a barrier

between you and what that which displeases Allah or the

punishment of Allah I make a barrier how do I make that barrier well by doing the

right things and staying away from the wrong things as simple as that so that is taqwa in essence so Allah says I have

prescribed fasting so that your relationship with me can be on the

highest level you you realize who I am you worship me correctly you become

compassionate in all the other benefits of fasting and at the end of that

prescribed time you should have achieved a better relationship with Allah that's why they say

you might have heard that one day the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said

amen Thrice as he was climbing up the member the pulpit and when he was asked later

he said jibril made a few duas and I was saying Amin to them what was one of the

duas one of them was that woe be upon the one who witnesses the month of

forgiveness and doesn't achieve the forgiveness something is for sale literally for sale

and you don't make use of it yet you need it yesterday I gave the example and I'd

like to give it again of Black Friday which month is Black Friday in

November everyone knows right why do you know you know because you wait for it you

know because I can't really afford some of the stuff through the year but I'm going to Market I'm going to watch it

and I'm waiting for Black Friday because there's going to be some awesome specials and as soon as the sale is

announced we are on our phones we are on the laptops and we're busy buying and we

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well well another day has been granted. I give thanks to our lord and savior.

Its okay to rest and to sit down and speak to Allah he is there for us, he will listen when you feel alone.

March 14, only a few days left till Ramadan, i have yet started to pray on time. I'm a covert ( i heard that wasn't the proper word choice since i did not convert from another religion) I will try my best to pray on time this Ramadan , Inshallah.

I hope all is well and we stay motivated.

my apologies if this post is all over the place, welcome to my brain its all fun and games up there hehe.

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Assalamu alaikum💛

Im the neurodivergent anon from a couple (or so i think) months ago or idk a month ago.

Just wanted to thank u again for ur kindness on impulse🧡 Also I had my first (first in my adolescence) counselling session a few days ago and I think when this stressfull exam-filled week ends and, with it, the school year ends too I will be able to focus more on myself

How have you been? I hope you're well🧡🧡🧡

Alaikum salam dear friend,

You are most welcome. It wasn't much in fact. I wish I could do more.

I'm glad you had had a conselling session. I hope it helps you find out more about yourself and I hope you will be given useful tools to deal with all this inshallah.

All is well on my side. Life has been very busy since Ramadan ended. Now that most Covid restriction have been lifted in my city, more people want to meet.

Although I enjoy seeing people, I need a lot of time to recharge in between... and I'm not getting this precious alone time!

It's a delicate balance : I love seeing those I love or meeting new people; it energizes me. But too much? I start to feel poorly both physically and mentally.

But thank God there's nature, quiet reflection, music, writing and prayer to help me regain my balance.

Thank you for writing to me. Take good care of yourself and good luck with your exams. Don't forget to take breaks to breathe.

Have a lovely day!