Around this time last year, I remember writing a draft about how Ramadan simply did not feel like Ramadan anymore. I couldn’t really put my finger on it, but the Holy month had changed, and even though the change had happened gradually over the last few years, the change was most tangible last year.
Little did I know, however, that last year’s Ramadan couldn’t even begin to compare to this year’s, even before the latter had even started. See, because even with all that change, at least all my family had been around me last year, while this year my parents will be gone for at 20 (probably more) days of the month. So now, not only has Ramadan ‘changed’ for reasons beyond me, I have to go through it without the people who have always been there.
And yet, I’m still beyond happy the Holy month is upon us (sans the heat, of course.) I have this renewed faith in..faith, and Ramadan is still the Holy month, so there really isn’t any better time for anyone to turn to God. So do not despair, the Holy month might have changed ‘socially’ and otherwise, but its religious benefits are still very much the same.
Ramadan Mubarak everybody!
M
لسا الدنيا بخير
Ramadan kareem , it will always be mubarak, always