Maryam Amir – If you arent good enough for Ramadan
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an spiritual practice, but also a means to fulfill obligations and responsibilities. They encourage the audience to shift their intentions and focus on the importance of fulfilling obligations and responsibilities in order to achieve spiritual success.
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When Ramadan, I felt like I hadn't done anything spiritually. It was
the middle of Ramadan. It was finishing so quickly, and I felt
like I had wasted it, and it was because I had no time. I was so
busy with a particular responsibility that I had. I
didn't have the time to read Quran and go for Te awiya and do the
types of things I usually wanted to do in Ramadan that made me feel
like a terrible worshiper in Ramadan, even though what I was
doing was worship. Inshallah, the whole thing was worship. But it
didn't feel like worship. I was crying tears from frustration,
rather crying tears from the sweet taste of faith. And I told one of
my teachers how I felt, and he responded with a statement from
Ibn tayy about this concept called feral deal to the world that's
basically Allah's panamata that has put in your life certain
responsibilities. Right now we're in the middle of Ramadan, a little
bit past it. You may have been unable to really engage the way
you wanted to, because you're taking care of your children, or
you're supporting your parents, or you are struggling with your
mental health, and you haven't been able to embrace Ramadan the
way you wish you could, but Allah Spano at all knows your your
responsibilities, whether it's taking care of someone else or
taking care of yourself, whether it's the exhaustion In the hours
of working or organizing for Palestine, for Sudan, for all of
our brothers and sisters who are oppressed, your Ramadan does not
need to look like the Ramadan of someone who has so much time to be
in the masjid for so many hours, or to read the Quran five times in
one month. But it doesn't mean that what you are doing right now
is not seen, appreciated and beloved to Allah. If you could,
you would be doing all those things that you think are the most
amazing ways to spend Ramadan. So just shift your intention. This is
the time to shift your intention and focus on the fact that Allah
has given you certain responsibilities in your life
right now and with the intention they are worship in and of
themselves. If you cry tears of frustration instead of tears of
the sweetness of iman, know that Allah SWT sees them. Who better to
witness your wishing that you could worship than the one who
will reward you for doing it as if you did because you would if you
could, and rewards you for all that you're so busy doing for his
sake.