Ramadan has started..

I haven't been writing since a long time and maybe that is because of Ramadan. But anywayz where should i start from? Nearly one week of Ramadan has passed and I caught the flu as well during it. At first when ramadan started during my fast i felt really weak and had severe headache. I thought this was due to the fact that i wasn't drinking tea, which i normally do twice a day. But that was all due to the flu i guess and now i am feeling better than ever, alhamdulilah. I thought ramadan will be tough this year, but once you get into the routine it is not really difficult. It is a really blessed month and we should make the most of it. I have fallen behind on trying to read the Quran my aim this time round is to complete the whole Quran. I hope to do that inshallah. But we all take advantage of this month but as soon as the day of Eid commences we turn back to our old ways. I am guilty of this also.

You can compare this to a person who wants to lose weight. He takes care with what he eats and exercises for a month, he realises that he is losing weight. But then in his second month he starts eating junk food and becomes lazy, in the end piling on weight and going back to the same state he was in before.

We need to continue the progress we made in Ramadan, if we finished the whole Quran in Ramadan, we should try to keep this act going by reading Quran everyday even if it is just one page per day. If we keep away from many bad things during Ramadan, we should continue doing so after Ramadan. This month is like a month of recharging your spiritual battery, we can keep this battery charged everyday by continuing acts of goodness or we can waste it by using up the battery and making it go dead by making a habit of bad actions. So its upto us. How do we know we will be alive for the next ramadan to take benefit of it once again??? We do not know, so just let us keep that in our mind.

In this month people pray and i think that is the biggest act, which can lead to great success in life. If a person prays 5 times a day, with full devotion and proper understanding, he feels content and will not feel like something was missing in his day. When you miss a prayer you know you have missed something! But if you make it a habit to leave prayer then you wont even feel that you have missed anything, it just becomes forgotten due to weakening of faith. Just like when you do a shameful act in the beginning you feel guilty. You feel that guilt because you have some level of faith, but when it becomes a habit you wont feel that guilt anymore..

We all need to reflect and look at ourselves. It comes back to the message of not looking at others but look at yourself. Where are you weak, where are your flaws and how can you improve as a person. This is the best month to do these things and keep what you gain in this month as something permanent rather than temporary.

Have a great Ramadan and do not forget the poor people who are suffering, the needy people and make dua for yourself and everybody else!