Maryam Amir – Starting Ramadan on your period

Sisters, if you are starting this month on your period, I tell you

is that many women in the world understand what it's like to start

Ramadan and not be fasting and praying with everyone else in the

same way. Unfortunately, there is a lot of taboo in some communities

about talking about menstruation. Lam Islam is very clear, but due

to the taboo of some cultures, it's led to a lot of women feeling

like starting Ramadan on your period is a form of punishment, or

it's a form of not being able to feel as included in the community

space. In reality, starting your period in Ramadan is simply what.

It's simply submission to God that you are choosing to not

participate in the Acts you normally would be participating in

only because this is your worship to Allah. Why are we refraining to

do that? Honor periods, not a punishment from God? Oh, it's

simply because this is what Allah asked us to do, what the Prophet,

Holy Son, guided us. So in this time of being in Mensis, honor

your body. Rest and relax and eat and drink and take care of

yourself. Don't feel guilty about taking care of your body. That's

literally what you're supposed to do in this time. And make two

intentions. The first intention is it's it's worship in and of

itself. Every single second of Ramadan, you are getting rewarded

in the second even when you're eating and drinking, you are being

rewarded for doing so. And number two, try to connect with the woman

companions on an emotional level. Think about what it was like for

Aisha Radi Allahu Anhu to get her period as she's going to make Hajj

with the Prophet sallallahu sallam. And she was weeping, and

was the Prophet SAW them's reaction to comfort her that this

is something ordained. What was it like for Sophia radiAllahu anha to

get her period at the end of Hajj? What was it like for the woman

companions to get their periods at a time where there were no

products for women to be able to navigate cleanly existing in

spaces without being worried about dripping, and that is a very real

reality for our sisters in greza. Think about the woman of grese and

how they are navigating being on their periods in tents without any

type of supplies in a genocide in Ramadan, and what it's like for

them. This is our opportunity to connect with our sisters in ghaza,

emotionally, our sisters in Sudan, in the Congo in all parts of the

world, and how can we use the privileges that we have to support

their liberation?