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Ramadan isn’t all about watching TV, eating as much as you can, shopping until the midnight or smoking sheesha. It is about Purifying your soul and increasing your faith in Allah. Before Ramadan by several weeks, you find TV channels start to advertise about the series that they will be putting. However, did you see them encouraging us to donate and prepare ourselves for Ramadan spiritually, mentally and physically?

            People should benefit from Ramadan and should focus on improving their behaviors and getting closer to Allah, rather than getting away from Islam. It is a time where you can realize why you have been misbehaving in the other months, a time where you can question yourself and search for answers by getting closer and closer to Allah.

Sitting in front of the TV, smoking Sheesha and eating until your stomach aches isn’t the solution to how to purify your soul, but is a way to neglect the real meaning of Ramadan.

            Don’t waste your precious times in Ramadan. Work harder to overcome your sins and to build a castle in Paradise.

May Allah increase our Iman

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I looked at him as he entered the place; his body was supported by a crutch. His body and skin were all wrinkly and his beard was as white as a snow. The look in his eyes and his weak body brought tears to my eyes, but I had to stay strong and not show him that I felt so broken hearted. It took him some time to reach to me and it really broke my heart to see such a person walk all on his own. The old man came all by himself to the hospital for an appointment he had taken. He had walk for a long distance to reach the ward for his appointment. It made me wonder where is his family, His children, His nephews and His grandchildren? Is it possible that no one was able to bring him here? 

You wonder nowadays, where did the social support disappear? It was widely spread in our Muslim society but now it is weakening by time. You find the elderly on their own and when you ask them about their children, they would tell you that they don’t get in contact with them anymore. 

SubhanAllah. How life is changing. 

I believe that this training of mine will teach me a lot of lessons in life, lessons that may open my eyes to life and realize what’s really going on in our muslim society. 

The last thing a person would want in life, is to be on his own. Specially after spending almost all your life raising your children, providing them with the best education and when its their turn to take care of you, they turn around and give you their backs,, 

I really hope that I would be obedient to my parents; I hope I don’t put them in such a situation where they would feel so lonely and unwanted. 

May Allah strengthen our Iman.. 

Ameen 

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