How blessed to get to celebrate another Ramadan.And to be with your family during this joyous period.Allah is the Most Merciful, Most Compassionate.
Every year we pray we'd become better people.Ramadan is our training month.Abdal Hayy saw it as a rehearsal of death when he first converted to Islam: no food, no drinks, no sex (despite the 12 hours or so abstinence!)
My pledges this Ramadan:
1.I intend to give more.
2.I intend to do more, talk less.
3.I intend to sleep less to read the Quran.
4.I intend to sleep less to pray.
5.I intend to eat less, drink more.
Bukan lah susah sangat, right? :)
Have a good one, folks.
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Ramadan Mubarak Farida. May you have a wonderful and spiritual fast.
Salaam,
Ridwan
Thank you, Ridwan.Are you still in the US? Send my salam to your family and stay blessed.Ramadan Karim.
Yes I am still in the US. I will definitely send your salaams to my family: Wa Alaikum Salaam.
Salaam,
Ridwan
oh oh.What is it like? Fasting in the US, away from your South African sambal? We over-eat over here and I'm glad the mosque in my neighbourhood has invited a group of orphans to break fast with us this Saturday.I also think of earthquake victims in Indonesia.How can we assist?
Ramadan is never easy in the US. At least not for me. I feel even more alienated.
You would think that 25 plus years of living away from my family in SA would have moved me to a place of relative comfort.
Not so.
I miss breaking fast with traditional SA Malay fritters and dates.
Or seeing the kids run around before taraweeh. Or watching the Imam from falling asleep at taraweeh.
It is not the same. Can't be. No-one around me even knows that it is Ramadan.
And even if they did know, they would not know what it meant.
Salaams to you and yours.
I wish there were a novel on this aspect of life in SA! I like the images of Ramadan you share with us here.It reminds me of my own childhood, running around noisily when people were doing their teraweh!(and now I get irate with kids doing this while I try to concentrate on my prayers)But I went to the mosque for the first time last night(I usually pray with my daughter at home cos' it's much quieter at home than it is at the mosque.My concentration is better at home and we finish early.Ha ha)and I found that they have air conditioners now (bad news for me).But it wasn't that bad.The kids were behaving (my husband who goes every nite says they have been told off by some seniors).And we had a short tazkirah and tea after that.Very nice.This weekend we'll have some orphans breaking fast with us.Pretty exciting.Ramadan has a new meaning for me now.
But I'm sure where you are there'd be some muslims somewhere.Invite them over!
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