Ramadan Mubarak 2012

A belated Ramadan Mubarak to everyone. I hope everyone has a blessed month.

"Oh Allah, we ask you for Paradise."

 

شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَىٰ وَالْفُرْقَانِ ۚ فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ

The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur'an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever sights [the new moon of] the month, let him fast it. (2:185)

The month of Ramadan is a month of spirituality, of cleansing and becoming closer to God. It is a month of refraining from all physical desires and feeding your soul. It is also a month in which the Qur'an was sent down from Al Law Al Mahfuz to the heavens as a complete book and then it began its deliverance to Earth through the angel Gabriel over a period of years.

The blessings of Ramadan are immense. Every year when I enter into Ramadan I want my spiritual state to be the highest however this Ramadan I feel I haven't begun so well. Don't get me wrong, I'm fasting, refraining from everything that a Muslim should refrain from while fasting, reading the Qur'an and attending Taraweeh everyday. But I find I am lacking spiritually. They say that when you have that special connection with God you feel it in your heart and it is called the sweetness of faith. I've felt it  and it is considered heaven on Earth for a believer because it is a feeling that is incomparable.

Like everything Ramadan needs preparation and I think this Ramadan I didn't prepare enough or maybe not at all. I remember my Ramadan two years ago, I was straight out of studying the Qur'an for two years and I entered into Ramadan. I think that is when I truly felt. But as they, your environment changes you and university and work has caught up with me. I feel different this Ramadan, as if my heart is harder and I don't feel enough. I am not feeling that spiritual connection and it is worrying me.

I guess what I can repeatedly to is make du'a and hope and pray for his mercy. For Ramadan is a month that it has so many oppurtunities and blessings in it that if one does not get himself forgiven during this month, then he is truly the loser.