Text : Hanif
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Has come the month we’ve been waiting most. We could say that Allah has given us, again, the opportunity to feel the sweetness of Ramadan. A month with full of blessings and forgiveness, in which one of the days is better than a thousand months of praying, Lailatul Qadar. To be able to succeed this Ramadan we need to remind ourselves and the people who close to us to pray more in the mids of night, recite the holy Quran each day, more zikirs to Allah, ask for blessing and forgiveness as how prophet Muhammad SAW shown us the way it does.
The prophet never misses a day but doing 60 times of istighfar and taubah and it is even more often in Ramadan. The prophet Peace Be upon Him is also the most generous man on earth and in Ramadan he becomes even more generous than any other month.
Everything we do in Ramadan that we did because of Allah will be counted as kind of worship, even our sleep if it is for Allah is counted in. A lot of things we thought were just simple good deeds could become a really big stuff if we do in Ramadan, because every rewards of those small stuff, in Ramadan, will be multiplied. A simple example we can do is by forgiving each other for the current and the past problem. By doing so we already untied our sin toward mankind, Hablu minan naas. Because the only way we can have the forgiveness of Allah is by not having sin toward His creatures.
Another seemingly-easy to do stuff is as simple as smile. Yap, for some people smile is really easy as they do it everyday to friends. But smile could become a catastrophe to some people as they rarely or never did before or they simply can’t. Smile could become a kind of ibadah as it spread happiness among people. Just imagine someone you are respect to is giving you a smile, it will energize you with sort of unknown chemical reaction within, or just imagine if Genghis Khan could smile, of course the story will be different. Couldn’t he?
People of course easier to smile in a happy condition, it is normal and It is also ibadah. But smile became tougher when man is in a sad state of mind, and that’s where it will be counted as a great ibadah if we kept smile and never let your problem sweep your smile away. We always have two options to face problems either with full-smiles on the face that give us more strength, or with a sad - folded -looking real bad face that help nothing but degrade our selves. You pick.
Have A Wonderful Ramadan!
