Bint-e-Muhammad Rafi
Why can't the month of Ramadan last forever...? 🥺
This question comes from the heart... When the eye opens in the silence of Sehri, when the sound of the Fajr prayer awakens the soul, when tears well up in the eyes while praying at the time of Iftar... then the heart says:
O Allah! May this month never end...
Ramadan is not actually the name of time... it is the name of a state.
It is the month in which hearts become soft, eyes fill up quickly, love for the Quran increases, hatred for sins begins, and man feels very close to Allah.
But Ramadan not lasting forever is also the wisdom of Allah.
If Ramadan lasted all year, perhaps there would not be the same value... the same longing, the same waiting, the same enthusiasm.
Allah Almighty has sent it as a guest... so that we appreciate it, feel the sorrow of its departure, and keep ourselves in check until the next Ramadan.
Ramadan comes to teach us that:
You can live the same way even in ordinary days.
You can be patient even without eating and drinking.
You can wake up for Tahajjud.
You can connect with the Quran.
You can avoid sins.
Ramadan does not last forever...
But the training of Ramadan can last forever.
The real question is not why Ramadan goes away...
The real question is whether our heart remains the same even after Ramadan?
The person who protects the prayers even after Ramadan, maintains a relationship with the Quran, avoids sins, gives charity, remains soft-hearted...
Then the whole year can become Ramadan for him.
Ramadan is a school...
The school does not always run... but its education remains with you for life.
May Allah grant us such a heart that Ramadan may go, but the light of Ramadan may not go...
Ramadan may end, but our relationship with Allah may not end...
And may He bring us to this blessed month again and again.
Aameen, O Lord of the Worlds 🤍