Generally, in Wikipedia Ramadhan is defined as the statement below:
"Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which lasts twenty nine or thirty days. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual intimacy with their partners during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. Muslims fast for the sake of God and to offer more prayer than usual. Compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards by about eleven days each year depending on the moon; thus, a person will have fasted every day of the calendar year in thirty four years time. Muslims believe Ramadan to be an auspicious month for the revelations of God to mankind, being the month in which the first verse of the Quran were revealed to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad S.A.W"
In my point of view, Ramadhan is the month where we teach ourselves to be a better person than we were before. As a Muslim, we should be excited when the month of Ramadhan is finally arrived. However if the feeling of excitement for Ramadhan is no longer in our heart, than we should ask ourselves where do we really stand as a Muslim.
Being a human and a Muslim, we cannot run away from making mistakes in our daily life, especially during Ramadhan. As mentioned earlier, during the month of Ramadhan all Muslims are refraining themselves from eating, drinking and having sexual intimacy during the daylight hours. These are the major things that are being forbidden during the month of Ramdhan and all Muslims seem to understand it.
However, there are some minor things that all the Muslims seem to be ignored during the month of Ramadhan. For example that minor thing can generally be like talking behind people’s back, spending a huge amount of money for breaking fast and hari raya, and get through a whole day without doing anything because they were too tired fasting. These are some of the example what Muslims nowadays did without ever realising it. They thought these things are okay, since they already restricted themselves from eating and drinking.
As a Muslim, we should have known better that fasting is not just about refraining ourselves from eating and drinking, but fasting is about being patience and get ourselves closer to God Allah S.W.T. We need to find and understand the true meaning of Ramadhan in order to avoid ourselves from doing all of the unnecessary things.
Ramadhan is the month where we teach ourselves to be closer to God. During Ramadhan we must practice everything that have been thought to us by the Quran so that when Ramadhan came to end we have already get used to the things that we did during the month of Ramadhan. There are plenty of things that we can do during Ramadhan that can make us closer to God; one of the most important things is to perform our prayers five times a day.
Islamic prayers or Salat is the second act in the Five Pillars of Islam, where this shows us how important it is to the Muslims. If we rarely pray five times a day before, then in the month of Ramadhan we need to perform it five times a day, if we already do it five times a day before then in the month of Ramadhan we can perform the Sunnah Salat such as the Tahajjud, Duha and also the Tarawih. Therefore hopefully we can be a better person and a better Muslim in the future.
We also should recite the Quran during the month of Ramadhan. As we all Muslims know, this is the month that is superior from any other months in which the almighty God Allah S.W.T revealed his final revelation, the Quran. By reciting the Quran we can feel closer to God and can help us get through the everyday challenge during the month of Ramadhan.
As a Muslims we were taught that every good deed will be rewarded and every sin will be punish. So Ramadhan is the month where we need to stop ourselves from making sins and make more of the good deeds. As said the the Surah Al – Mulk chapter sixty seven verse number twelve:
“as for those who fear their Lord unseen, for them is Forgiveness and a great Reward”
Avoiding ourselves from making sins not only grant us a reward but also grant us with forgiveness from the almighty God Allah S.W.T.
In conclusion, perfoming our Salat, reciting the Quran can be a way to help us overcome the everyday challenge in the month of Ramadhan, and it will also grant us with reward, and if we keep on doing this good thing sincerely in the month of Ramadhan, insha’allah it will keep on going in any other month and hopefully we will be granted Jannah in the end.
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