Ramadhan: Part 1

Today is the 6th day of Ramadhan ,1425.I divide this Ramadhan into five equal parts of six days each to keep track of what I planned to do.By end of the day today, 20% of the Ramadan "special offer" is gone. So it is a good time to check what we have done compared to what we had planned to do or what we should be doing in this Ramadhan al-Mubarak! It is good if we could keep a scoreboard to measure our personal performance as well as to keep on improving our ibadah so that we are not wasting our time. Time and Ramadhan waits for no man or woman. As an example,if we plan to read the whole Qur'an within this month, we must now be reading Surah al-Maaidah by now. If not, we have to allocate more time.If we cannnot read the whole Qur'an,at least we should be reading it everyday... Fasting in the month of Ramadhan is a reallly special form of ibadah.Every moment while we are fasting, we are in the state of ibadah-obeying the command of Allah swt. This state of being is a form of obedience, hence it is a part of worship.No other ibadah other than Haj takes more than half a day. That is the reason why supplications of muslims/muslimahs who are fasting will be granted by Allah swt,InsyaAllah. May our fast be accepted as our sincere ibadah to Allah.

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Just to share what I had written six years ago...

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thanks 4 sharing Pak Adib

[mhi]

Abedib, we are now in the 3rd tier of Ramadhan. I hope to read something from you about the 2nd tier and what to expect from the 3rd tier.
Thank you.

[Adib]

Hasni,

Let me explain to you by using an aeroplane flight path as a model of my Ramadhan journey.The first 10 days is taking off from your airport-getting the correct bearing and powering your engine.The second 10 days is the climbing to the cruising speed that you wish to continue your journey to the next destination.The last 10 days is maintaining your height at the desired level,speed and direction to reach your destination(Taqwa),insyaAllah.