Here we are, and the month is starting.
Another month like no other month. One enters it with one’s conscience, heart and body. Something is going to change, something has changed…something must change. The key of this month is our mind… At the threshold of this month our intelligence questions our intention, our intentions.
The meaning of fasting is universal… “O you who have attained to faith, fasting has been prescribed to you as it was prescribed for those before you…” and it interpellates every heart deeply, individually, necessarily. Why to deprive oneself when, far from the sight of the others, one would be able to drink, eat or forget?…Why?
The fast calls upon our heart to live and fast for the One, for our self, with the intention to find again the inner reality. Far from the people. The month of Ramadan is transparency and sincerity as to one’s self. Step by step, day after day, to be with God, with one’s inner self, in the light of the Book and the Messenger…to try to get back to the right dimension, to educate one’s self. One’s body, tongue, heart. The fast is the path toward one’s inner self.
One must learn to give as well. With all one’s heart. The month of Ramadan is gift and generosity as to the other. To learn to give from one’s time, smiles, qualities and money. To keep silent about hatred, aggressiveness and anger and to say, to repeat and to whisper the words of love, tenderness and affection.
To take for one’s self as well as to give for the other…with the same intention to love the Most Close, to enter into His Peace and to reconcile one’s self with the meaning of the true life. May your fast be beautiful, profound and untroubled commensurate with your most beautiful intentions.
With affection and love
May your fast be beautiful, profound and untroubled too … Love Shakkira xx
Ramadan Kareem!!!
To All!
Ramadan is a month of reflection, contemplation, sacrifice, bettering oneself and one’s character, spiritual renewal. Faithful observance of the Sawm is believed to atone for personal faults and misdeeds and to help earn a place in paradise.
nice article to read. ramadan purifies our mind and scours out the devilish and satanish spirits of our mind and help us the suffocate the evils of our mind by depriving the carnal desires. may Allah accept our deeds.
Peace and Blessings to all of you.
A beautiful, heartfelt, deep and yet simple message of Love indeed. Thanks for this reflection. Thanks for sharing it with us. A Blessed Ramadan to us all. Ameen. Pearl.
Its a wonderful message.
Ramadhan is a month of self reflection and of sacrifice; it’s a month of psychological change and of physical restraint. It’s a month in which God chose to speak to mankind through the heavenly commissioned Messenger to the Best of Creation. Those noble souls, with clarity in their minds, strength of faith in their hearts -the recipients of this dynamic message were, at all odds, spurred into action in this month to fight and win the first battle at Badr. And hence this month inculcates the desire to learn, the will to change the need to sacrifice with property and person, health and wealth; for intellectual reasoning and practical solutions for action and dynamism; to purify our faith, clarify our understanding and solidify our unity -to achieve the best in this world and the next!
One of the beautiful things about our Ramadan is that it is celebrated all over the world: from Malmö in the North to Johansberg in the South, from Tokyo in the East to San Fransisco in the West. In Baghdad and Islamabad, in Kabul and Istanbul, in Washington and Wellington, in Nablus and Los Angeles, in Cairo and Ontario, in Warsaw and Arkansas, in Mecca and Dakka, in Izmir and Tangier, in Aukland and Portland, in Berlin and Beijing, everywhere you go you’ll find people -no matter how many they are- fasting from dawn to dusk, asking Allah’s forgiveness. They remind the world that it’s Allah Who is the Lord of the World, not America or NATO. Anyone can fast Ramadan. Even Christians join their Muslim neighbours in the fast of Ramadan in some parts of the world just as Muslims share with them Christmas and any other celebrations. They don’t care of those who kill each other in the name of God, be they in the right or in the wrong. They only care about pleasing God, Who, they know, does not want them to starve themselves for the sake of starving, but to educate them, to make them feel hungry and thirsty so that they realize how much God is bountiful towards man by providing him with all kinds of food and drink, which he tends to take for granted, and therefore they should give thanks to the One Who made them and provided them with all means of subsistence. By feeling hungry and thirsty themselves, those who fast would remember that while they are expecting to eat and drink at iftar at dusk, many people just won’t have anything to eat that day or won’t be able to eat every day, and they would realize that water, which is taken for granted in many countries, is a scarce commodity in many others. By fasting, those who fast remember God for hours and days, Him Who always remembers the faithful. And many, many people come to Allah during Ramadan. At no other time of year are mosques more full and lively than in Ramadan. At no other time of year is the Holy Koran more read than in Ramadan. At no other time of year are the poor, the homeless, the orphans remembered and cared for than in Ramadan. In Ramadan mercy and compassion descend upon the Earth. In Ramadan curiosity arises among those who believe in Scientology or those who believe they descended from a monkey, or those who believe the World was made by chance, or those who believe there’s just no God and no life after death.
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Another month of sleeping all day long, stuffing yourself silly in the evening and watching lots of tv-soaps arab artists were paid a lot to be in – all very spiritual indeed!!
I am actually going through a difficult time in the office – but i’m praying The Almighty to give the courage not to tell anyone what is actually happening.NO GOSSIPING !
I’m looking for another job – and hope to get one during this Holy Month.
Hope you all understand me and need your prayers.
Allah might listen to one of you , pleading for me.
Take care & Allah be with you always
N