Ramadan is a revolution for change
People like to change many things of their lives. They like to change their clothes, or shoes, they like to change the rotten of their lives by traveling, or to go to have fun out door, even food they cannot eat the same meal every day. This is the nature of people which Allah has created with them. In fact people change their rotten to refresh their souls and lives to encourage themselves to be more happy and to motivate themselves towards better future.
If we look at the month of Ramadan, we will find its days are invitation and revolution to change many subjects, some of them as the following;
- To change the attitude. Ramadan is an invitation to change the manors from bad to good. Who treats Ramadan as he treats any other month he is wrong and it might he lose the rewards of his fasting and will find nothing on the judgment day but the hellfire. The Prophet (SAW) said: (it maybe the fast person doesn't get benefits of his fasting, but thirst and hunger, and maybe a person doesn't earn anything from his prayer except sickness and tiredness). This is why the Prophet (SAW) invited us to behave ourselves during the month of Ramadan with his saying: (when someone of you offers fasting, he must not talk false nor raise his voice, and when someone argues with him he should say I'm fasting). We learn from this hadith that the Prophet (SAW) advised us to control our attitude all ways especially during the month of Ramadan. Look how the prophet (SAW) distinguished between Ramadan and the regular days.
Did we change our attitude during this month? Did we prevent ourselves from backbiting? Did we stop to lie and deceive? Did we change ourselves to be raised in a high level in paradise which its width is heavens and earth? The prophet (SAW) has worn us from the fasting which doesn't bring to us more than thirst and hunger. - Changing the habits.
Muslim's habits during the regular months is to wake up in the morning, go to work then come at evening or night to pray Maghreb and Isha then go to bed, but during the month of Ramadan Muslims are completely different. They wake up for Sohoor and Fajr prayer then go to work, there is no lunch meal and they break their fasting after sunset and pray taraweeh prayer. They believe that they do that for the sake of Allah according to the hadith of the prophet (SAW) eat the meal of Sohoor because it is a blessing). Also they go to the mosque to pray Fajr prayer according to the Quran: (Perform As-Salat from mid-day till the darkness of the night, and recite the Quran in the early dawn prayer. Verily, the recitation of the Quran in the early dawn prayer is ever witnessed by the angels in charge of mankind of the day and the night). - Rising the worship. During the year we do our regular way of worship, but when Ramadan starts you see Muslims more active with Quran recitation, attend congregation prayer at the Mosque, prevent themselves from whatever keeps them away from Allah and they try to please Allah as best as they can.
- Changing from stinginess to generosity.
Muslims during the regular month work hard to gain money and save money as much as they can. Sometimes they donate during the year but in the month of Ramadan they donate a lot, for example:
You see Muslims invite their families and friends to break their fasting; they look for poor and needy to help them and pay zakat to them, and they ask if the house of Allah needs any help or support. This is the action of real Muslims according to the Quran: (Whatever you spend for the sake of Allah will multiply its rewards, and Allah is the best provider). - Ramadan is a revolution to clean the heart's rust. The hearts have rust as the metal has rust and Ramadan cleans the rust of the heart as the sander cleans the rust of the metals. The prophet (SAW) said:
(Hearts rust as the metal rusts, and the remembrance of Allah cleans it)
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