In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.


Days pass so quickly. We welcomed last Ramadhan, then we bade it farewell. Only a short period of time passed and we are welcoming Ramadhan again. So we should hasten to do good deeds in this month and strive to fill it with what Allah is pleased with.

Ramadhan is full of discipline, self-control, patience, and good behavior. And we know its the most blessed month in the Islamic calendar. Its primarily a spiritual training course intended to help us cultivate essential virtues and skills in order to lead a meaningful life. I believe that most often we forget our true essence and identity as human beings. In other words, we become totally preoccupied with the physical and material dimensions, forgetting the spiritual core of our personalities. And Ramadhan comes to remind us of who we truly are and how we can discipline ourselves in such a way that we are fully awake to our full spiritual potential.

Let our fasting be a fasting of body, mind, and soul. For while staying away from food, drink, and sexual gratifications, minds, eyes, ears, and tongue. This time is the perfect opportunity to break free of all negative habits that have been holding us back from achieving the true happiness and perfection that is ours as a birthright. Make Ramadhan as the month of empathy and generosity. In fact, one of the main purposes of fasting is to instill in us empathy for the poor and the less deprived. By exposing us to compulsory hunger, we are given a practical lesson in hunger and thirst and thus we become better motivated to empathize with the poor. Hence we are ordered to practice the optimum level of charity in the month of Ramadhan. And don't forget to make this holy month Ramadhan to familiarize ourselves with the Qur’an, the true source of guidance, healing, and mercy—Allah’s perfect gift to humanity.

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