In the name of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful.
Aaaand just like that it is Ramadan again! Woohoo!
I must say I have not started out very well but managed to pull myself back together to have a more decent go at this year’s Ramadan.
I decided not to do a Ramadan vlog series like I have done previously. Instead, I will just be posting daily on my Instagram feed. I have already started with a Hello Ramadan kinda post.
I think it will be good for me to get back to my prayer tree tracker. I want to see whether the change in my job/lifestyle has produced better results for me.
The red leaves are daily prayers, orange for terawih, and yellow for witr. I have until tomorrow’s Asar prayers to add on more red leaves for 1 Ramadan.
Yes, I know, my Ramadan efforts are pathetic. More power to you if you are able to establish eight terawih raka’ats and three witr raka’ats at least daily! My Ramadan starts are always weak admittedly. My next Ramadan goal is to start strong at eight raka’ats for terawih. But for this Ramadan, my intention is to slowly build up my stamina. I could not even pray five times a day religiously, what more carry out the sunnah prayers before/after the mandatory daily prayers. Naturally, I am spiritually weak and my heart is pretty dead. Ergo, I do not share the same drive as other Muslims in welcoming Ramadan.
But of course, I do not want to let my heart remain dead and my spirit weak forever. I have to start somewhere. So I figured, possible public humiliation and bewilderment through this post might give me the nudge I need to make myself a better Muslim.
I definitely want to do better in life and the Afterlife. In order to do that, I need to hold myself accountable.
Ya Rabb, please give me the strength to be a better person and Muslimah. Amin.
And Allah is Al-Mu’izz, The Honourer, The Bestower. – MM
Metropolitan Muslimah 