We need a Ramadan, a month of Tawbaah.
We need a Ramadan, a month of Maghfira.
We need a Ramadan to correct our behavior, to correct the differences & the difficulties and the envy / jealousies in our relationship between one another.
We need a Ramadan to understand that we have been committing injustice to one and another. And as the Prophet (pbuh) said :
‘Az-Zulm (injustice) . “Zulumaat yawmal Qiyaamah” we’ll be changed physically into darkness on the Day of Judgement.’
Ramadan is a month of Forgiveness.
Ramadan is a month of Rahmah.
Ramadan is the month of Generosity.
Ramadan, the month that Allah subhaanahu wa ta’ala accepts the Tawbah of the servants, and the month that Allah blesses His servants.
We are in need of Ramadan to correct ourselves, for we have forgotten Allah tabarak wa ta’ala for the majority of the year.
To correct ourselves for we have been neglectful.
To correct ourselves for we are not upon the remembrance of Allaah.
To correct ourselves because our hearts have gotten hard, some hearts are dead, some hearts are sick , some hearts are stone-cold, some hearts are black, getting no benefit whatsoever. Some hearts are so bad, and so ill that they see a good as a Munkar, (as an evil), and they see an evil as a good. These are not as they should be.
We need a Ramadan because our connection with Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala is not correct.
We need a Ramadan because we do not have any Khushoo or devotion in our Salaah.
We need a Ramadan because our Qura’an has dust and is sitting on a shelf.
We need a Ramadan because we never read the books of Sunnah.
We need a Ramadan because we don’t fast, and if we fast physically without food or drink, we don’t fast with our eyes by lowering them and our tongue by not slandering and our tongue by not lying and back-biting. We need a Ramadan to get ourselves back in order, to work for the Hereafter, to connect ourselves to Allah tabarak wa ta’ala.
We need a Ramadan because relationships brother to brother and sister to sister is in a miserable condition.
We need a Ramadan because we have bad thoughts about one another.
We need a Ramadan because there is backbiting, there is envy, there is jealousy, and there is slander.
We need a Ramadan because we are despicable, because we are sick.
We need a Ramadan because we don’t believe in the promise of Allah tabarak wa ta’ala, or if we do, we do not implement it.
We need a Ramadan because it is time for us to change and become something better then we are now.
We need a Ramadan because we don’t have unity, there’s no brotherhood
We need a Ramadan because there’s no respect for elders.
We need a Ramadan because there’s no real love between us.
We need a Ramadan, full of love and the Mercy of Allah tabarak wa ta’ala.
A Ramadan like we come in, like in a clinic or a hospital, trying to solve our illnesses, trying to come out of there without the disease we came with, trying to be better than we went in with.
We need a Ramadan, that we come in the Masjid and we face the Qiblah and we say “Allahu Akbar” and we stand in qiyamah a long time until those diseases, that filth, that sickness, that hardness the heart goes away.
We need a Ramadan that reminds us of the Hell-fire.
We need a Ramadan that lets us known that we are servants of Allah tabarak wa ta’ala.
We need a Ramadan and it is clear.If there is any fear of Allah left in the hearts of ours and if there is any hope of Janah left in us, and if there is any desire to change and to be better and to be righteous and to come to the level of Ihsaan, to come to the level of a Mumim, to have taqwa, to fear Allah
… we need a Ramadan.
