بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
Best Wishes Upon You, And Blessing Upon You and Barakah
ALLAH upon you
Ramadhan
is near… It’s just a stone throw away… It’s just a few days away…
A few
days… It’s this Wednesday… it’s not that far… are you ready for Ramadhan? Well
are you?
For
this Ramadhan, it will be my third celebrating it with my friends, away from my
home and my family… the first would be in matriculation and the second would be
last year in UKM… well the third will be the same, in UKM ofcourse…
Well,
I really wanted to spend my Ramadhan with my family, but I’ve got classes and
reseat exams… Serve me right for fooling around during my 3rd and 4th
semester… I’ve failed my finals and need to reseat those 6 papers, and passing
them, if I want to move forward to my clinical years…
Like
last year, I was hoping I could khatm the Quran in Ramadhan and able to solah tarawih
20 rakaat… well, I could only niat and hoped for it as was not able to khatm
the Quran in Ramadhan although I managed to khatm in Syawal… and for the solah,
I was able to do 20 rakaat and sometimes a do 8 rakaat… why, maybe because I was
too focused on my studies and I wasn’t had the strength to do it… erk… what a
lame excuse right?
And for
this Ramadhan, I also niat for the same thing… but wait, please know the
difference between niat and nazr….
But somehow,
I don’t know why, I think it will be some as last year…
Okey,
for last years Ramadhan, me and friends usually iftar together… sometime I iftar
alone in my room… but since this year, our rooms are quit far apart, none of us
have a big room that can have up to 10 people, we decide to iftar at our
friends apartment at the entrance of the college…
But somehow,
maybe this year, for the first 2 or 3
days, maybe I will be iftar with them and then I will be iftar alone…
Why
you might ask… I don’t know… maybe because I’m a lone ranger perhaps…
Despite
having six modules I need the study, the stress and fasting at college, I really
hoped and prayed that this upcoming Ramadhan will be more meaningfull… by
means, I don’t want to be those people who are called ‘HAMBA RAMADHAN’
"Barangsiapa yang 'menyembah' Ramadhan
maka sesungguhnya Ramadhan itu akan mati, dan barangsiapa yang menyembah Allah
maka sesungguhnya Allah itu Maha Hidup dan tidak mati. Seburuk-buruk kaum ialah
mereka yang hanya mengenal Allah pada bulan Ramadhan! Jadilah hamba Tuhan,
bukan hamba Ramadhan!"
Sheikh Yusof Qardhawi
<sorry unable to
find English version>
Didn’t
you noticed
Only in
Ramadhan, the musollah is full …
Only in
Ramadhan we could hear the reciting of Quran, zikr…
Some
people, or even most of us, just think Ramadhan as a month of festive for
ibadah… Why? Maybe because, well, there’s the night of a thousand night, the
Lailatul Qadr, where your ibadah is counted as ibadah for 1000 month, and also
pahala or reward for our ibadah is doubled (or even tripled maybe)…
But to
think about again, if we do our ibadah as we do in Ramadhan, in other months, I
think our pahala/reward would be higher than we do in Ramadhan… Then my won’t
we…
Maybe
because of the satan is chained up during Ramadhan?
My
friends, yes you are right… Satan is chained, but we still have our nafsu… its
not an excuse… that’s why we are more to HAMBA RAMADHAN rather HAMBA ALLAH…
Just
hoping and praying, that my Ramadhan and yours, won’t be waste… and I hope we
can continue with our ibadah that we do in Ramadhan, all the Quran reciting,
zikr and every sunnah that we do, we can continue with it, istiqomah until we
meet the next Ramadhan…
And I
hoped and pray for those who are struggling to become a good muslim, use
Ramadhan as a platform to change, because, well you know, the environment during
Ramadhan is more suited to it as people are tend to devote into their Islam
more than in other month…
This
a few bloggers that blog about Ramadhan, hoped they are helpful to read…
Enjoy Your Ramadhan
Jazakallahu Khairan Kasira
Post-note:
…I intentionally made this blog in English…
…Just for the fun of it…
…And I wanna brush up on my English…
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