Ramadaan is around the bend!

Ramadaan is once more around the bend
which means putting sins to an end;

The musjids will suddenly be full
while the smoker won't take his toxic pull;

All the Muslims will be on the fast
while those who are 'fast,' their sins will cast;

The hearts will be rid of its rust
and the barely used Qurans of its dust;

Women will eagerly don their cloaks
which for them, the rest of the year was a joke;

Men will gladly beards sprout
although the rest of the year they left it out;

Ramadaan comes once a year
but, for the rest of the year, we pretend it wasn't here!

Taken From http://www.direct.za.org/index.html

Salams

Jazakallah for sharing this beautiful poem here.

Whilst on the subject, please pay a visit to Ramadan section of Haq Islam website. Its still in the process of having more material and resources added to it but insha-Allah you will find whats already available beneficial. Please do share the link with others also.

Wasalam

Ameen

Ameen to the duas above.

And some said it was round the corner..

some of us spend weeks preparing samoosa's etc for iftaar. what about the poor?
we spend all day fasting, then at iftaar we fill our bellies with no limit. then we feel so full, tired and then become lazy untill we have to force ourselves up for tarawee!! then, some of us snack again after tarawee!!

i personally feel that the whole point of fasting is diminished. how are we supposed to know how the poor are starved when we start looking forward to doing iftaar from couple of hours b4 maghrib. when women go & spend their last hours cooking & frying when we r supposed to spend that time praying & making dua!!?!

we should seriously try keeping our diet for iftaar absolutely light.
its not fair that some women have to spend their last precious hour/s in the kitchen. we only have 30 days of this precious month. why cant we live simple for this 1 month?

ps, im not complaining for myself, as i dont have that problem. but i c it when i go to my mums or in-laws. & i know many women who also do.

سبحانه وتعالى

I couldn't agree with you more !

But alhamdulillah, this concern is rising amongst the discerning, and many muslims are beginning to understand the nature of their nafs and how we tend to appease it at every point.

May Allah give us the strength of will and tawfeeq to maintain a stern upper-hand over our indulgent nafs.

I dream of the Ramadhaan in which we make suhoor on tea and biscuits and iftaar on dates, pitta bread and yogurt/milk. It's not that we don't have these simple foodstuffs to hand, but that we can't resist the finer foods available ! What of all those who crave even these simple foods, not having access to even clean drinking water?

Astaghfirullah. Allah has given us such bounties and we do not even regard it our duty to return his favour by sharing it with the ummah. Who can honestly say that they regularly give the total of their weekly grocery bill in charity?

May Allah remove the love of the dunya and it's 'fineries' from our hearts. Aaaaaameeeeen !!!

Please remember me in your duas,
Fee amaanillah
Wassalaam

Great poem to re-read..