Ramadhan

How I Overcame Challenges During Ramdhan (Part 1)

For this entry, we will talked about the meaning of Ramadhan and several reasons why Ramadhan is considered important to Muslims. We hope this infomation give benefits to all of us. 

WHAT IS RAMADHAN?

Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calender, when Muslims fast during daylight hours. Ramadhan is intended to increase our self-control in all areas, including food, sleeping, sex and the use of our time.

There are several reasons why Ramadhan is considered important:

• The Qur'an was first revealed during this month
• The gates of Heaven are open
• The gates of Hell are closed and the devils are chained up in Hell

THE QUR'AN REVEALED

The actual night that the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad is called Lailatul Qadr, and to stand in prayer on this night is said to be better than a thousand months of worship.

Ramadhan is often called 'month of the Qur'an' and Muslims attempt to recite as much of the Qur'an as they can during the month.

No one knows on which particular night the Qur'an was revealed, but it is said to be one of the last ten nights of Ramadhan.

THE GATES OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED AND THE GATES OF HELL ARE CLOSED

Muslims believe that their good actions bring a greater reward during this month than at any other time of year, because this month has been blessed by Allah.

How I Overcame Challenges During Ramdhan (Part 2)

Challenges we are facing during Ramadhan

During Ramadhan, we are pretty sure that every Muslim, no matter how long they've been fasting, will do has a few challenges that they need to face during this fasting month. For us, the hurdles we are facing during this Holy month was vary from the past year. It's only been 16 days but we've already noticed what I seem to find difficult. Below are few challenges that we need to face this year.

 

#1 Cannot sleep after Sahur

After having sahur, we are feel so awake and alert. Usually, we'll take an hour to let the food settle and we'll be laying on the bed to get ready for dreamland. Since day 2 of fasting at MICET, we've only manage to get tired in the afternoon and catch up on asleep then, especially if we have class from early morning. We always fall asleep in the class since we are woke up at 4am for sahur and can't sleep after that. Either that or we'll stay up until after breakfasting and then we'll sleep. It's really troubling us because we get so weak and tired throughout the day.

 

 #2 Get Thirsty

As usual, on this fasting month, we bet everyone facing this kind of challenge especially for student like us who have lab in the afternoon until evening. Imagine that we can't drink for 12 hours and yet still need to blow up our energy to go for classes. For us that stayed at level 3 of the hostel, need to climb up all the stairs and yet still need to climb up again when going to class cause most of our classes at level 2 and 3 at academic building. Even though we are having sahur and drink a lot of plain water, yet still feel thirsty. Maybe because the weather nowadays getting so hot due to global warming issue.

#3 We catch sore throat, fever and flu

We hate this kind of sickness! This problem's been re-occurring among us which fatimah was got the flu and sore throat first then followed by naquiah and mardhiah. In fact, as we're creating this entry, Naquiah have a mountain of tissues next to her and fatimah got very horrible sore throat. For us, it's not suprise us at all because eating less means getting less of the nutrients that we need for a healthy immune system.

Our challenges may seem minor to some but it seriously makes it challenging for us to get through the day especially since we've to be weary of everything we do to make our fasting as perfect as possible. Having said that, we are realize that Ramadhan may be one of those things that some of us secretly dread but it's such as good wake-up call. You don't know how much you actually have until you have to refrain yourself from it all. We dread knowing that there's a feast underneath that fridge and being unable to indulge in it but compare that to a leper on a street watching healthy people walking cheerfully into a restaurant. Doesn't your situation seem more desirable?