For now, I will content myself with trying to stretch my day a little more…and enjoy this fleeting time I have with my soon-will-be-a-grown-up baby before I look back at this amazingly hectic time wistfully; wishing i had appreciated it while I could…
ചുറ്റിലുമുള്ളവര് വാന് പ്രതിഫലക്കൊയ്ത്തിന്റെ വിളവെടുപ്പു നടത്തവേ/ഈ സാധുവില് പ്രതീക്ഷകള്ക്ക് കരുതിവെയ്പ്പായ് ഒരു തരി ധാന്യം പോലുമില്ലല്ലോ…
While the believers are reaping infinite rewards in the Holy Month, the poet laments he hasn’t earned a grain in the devout harvest
I was happy: I made it. I had reached the Holy Month, alive. Allahumma Balligni Ramadan… would have been the prayer of all the believers in Shaban.
If we could take this Ramadan as a time for self-assessment. Could we also try to find out how much have the Muslims positively contributed to the development of the world and to the total fund of knowledge and human experiences during this whole year?
It is habitual for us to ‘regret about the past, complain about the present and worry about the future’. We spend more time thinking about them, than trying to solve them.
Dr Kamala Surayya, clad in the headscarf and the prayer costume, is absorbed in the reading of Holy Quran in the month of Ramadan. She is embracing the first Ramadan after her conversion to Islam..
The habits and rituals in Ramadan witness a sudden end as soon as the Holy Month is over
Before Ramadan began, in a light-hearted moment I told my love that when in paradise, I would be in the joyful company of hoors. she replied in an indifferent tone, ‘That’s ok. But make sure you don’t spend too much time on the PC or else they would go away”.
