RAMADAN Join Us On this Journey

DesertRose

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Brother Duad Kim is currently in Indonesia. He got the owner of a Korean restaurant to help make an iftar for orphans.
I made Special Iftar for my Kids *I cried

 

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Verses of Fasting [POWERFUL RECITATION] By Ustad Abdulahad Dayib From Knowledge College

 

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Happiness, Gratitude, and Ramadan

People have different happiness baselines.


I’ve noticed that some people are always happier than others, even though we all have problems and experience hardships. But we are not all equally happy.


Some people are usually positive and seem overall happy, trying to find the good in things even while they may be going through a trial. These people are able to smile and be lighthearted even despite a chronic illness or poverty or other long-term dunyawi (worldly) difficulties. Their happiness baseline is high.


Then there are other people who always seem to find something to complain about, even if overall their life is easier than others. They are usually miserable and make others around them also miserable. They have a low happiness baseline.


Happiness, that ever-elusive thing that almost all human beings seek, is more about the internal than the external.


It doesn’t matter what you have; what matters is how you choose to think and how you decide to feel.


What matters is what you choose to focus on.


Focusing on what you think is going wrong in your life will have you feeling bitter, resentful, and unhappy. Focusing on what’s going well and the blessings Allah has given you will have you feeling humble, thankful, and happy.


If you inculcate gratitude (شكر, shukr) in yourself, you will be happy no matter what you have or don’t have. No matter what you are going through. You will raise your overall happiness baseline.


This raising of our own personal happiness baseline is something that we can work on during Ramadan. Ramadan can inshaAllah help us feel more grateful– and thus, overall happier.


Allah says in the famous ayat in the Quran on Ramadan,


شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَىٰ وَالْفُرْقَانِ ۚ فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ ۖ وَمَن كَانَ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ ۗ يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ بِكُمُ الْيُسْرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ الْعُسْرَ وَلِتُكْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا هَدَاكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ.
“The month of Ramaḍān [is that] in which was revealed the Qur’ān, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever sights [the crescent of] the month, let him fast it; and whoever is ill or on a journey – then an equal number of other days. Allāh intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship and [wants] for you to complete the period and to glorify Allāh for that [to] which He has guided you; and perhaps you will be grateful.” (Surat Al-Baqarah, 185)
This ayah is often quoted in Ramadan.


Have you noticed the last two words of it, though?


وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
“And perhaps you will be grateful.”
May Allah grant us deep gratitude in this blessed month and beyond, and may He grant us happiness in this abode and the next, Ameen.
 
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