This is how we have all been trying to do in the past 20 days and will continue to do in the next ten days,
my question is what happens after that???
Personally, I find the hypocrisy exhausting, suddenly everyone I know believes and cannot wait to show me what I am doing wrong, everyone covers up, no skin or even better; people go to the extreme of no makeup at all, as in nada, kapish, everyone prays, the mosques fill up, the gossip is non-existent coz everyone is fasting, it is beautiful indeed. Its this time of the year that you get to realise just how many Muslims you have in facebook, as i call it even facebook becomes "Halalified"....a once in a lifetime opportunity that will probably end in ten days...
after ten days...the hijab is abandoned, make-up is on, gossiping, no one has time for Allah until next Ramadhan in the next year...and by then we hope to be alive to atone for the mistakes we know we are making and continuing to make...
My question is why?
why don't we learn something? why don't we keep at least one of the good habits we pick up in Ramdhan? Why do my sisters drop the hijab after Ramadhan? Why do we go back to life just like before, with the holy month of Ramadhan creating no lasting impact on us??
Don't get me wrong, I am not pointing fingers coz my hands are clean, okay maybe I am pointing fingers but wait, hear me out - my stance is more because in Ramadhan I am still the person that I am in the other days, I am not saying that is necessarily a good thing, I try to maintain being a good Muslim and pick up at least one new good habit... I dont do the whole oversized hijab just because its Ramadhan I keep my normal hijab, I try to use Ramadhan as a gauge in how I live the other days, I don't try to be a model muslim for 30 days then give it all up by eid...
I guess the point of this post is lets try to be more real, my dear Muslim brothers and sisters...Allah does exist everyday, of every year, in every moment, He was there in the past, is here now, and will be there in the future...something we cannot say for ourselves...so please lets stop this charade, let us have faith, let us believe, let us pray, let us stop gossiping, let us recite the Qur-an not just in Ramadhan...
but all the days throughout the year....
Ya Allah please forgive our sins and make space for us in Jannatu Naim. Amin
Halalified!! lol!!
ReplyDeleteAnd you know Sabs, i think that one is better off not fasting if they will resume all the "sinful life" right after ramadhan.
Its a shame, and to me like saying to Allah, :I know what i am supposed to do, and not do, and in fact i can refrain just like i did during ramadan but i wont do it:
One thing i always pray for, is to be reformed, the ways of life to change from this point on. Inshallah, it will be possible...
Thanks for yet another intriguing piece.