I should really go sleep if i want to rid off my eye bags T_T

This Ramadhan, a few quotes from our beloved Prophet (p.b.u.h) and others i forgot by who, have stuck in my head.

One:
It goes along the line of not saying out loud your displeasure with the food that you're breaking your fast with. When our beloved Prohpet (p.b.u.h) didn't like his wife's cooking, he simply did not eat it or he ate it without complaining even once.

Two:
We should not praise ourselves. (Always be humble no matter how intelligent, wise, well-off, etc (you get the drift) we are.

Three:
Those who do not fast, but help those who fast, will receive the good deeds equivalent to those who fast.

And i'm going to add some things to my Ramadhan list too. InsyaAllah, i'd want to perform the sunnah duha prayers in the morning. It starts at around 8am to 11.30am latest. InsyaAllah (: Ramadhan after all, is the month where all of us should make use to get as much blessings as we can right?

And my brother shared with us the other day, what the Uztaz had told them at the sermon last friday. Something that goes along the line with... If you don't change your bad habits and improve yourself, how will THIS Ramadhan be different from the previous? It really struck a chord in me. It made me think a lot about that. And how true. That's why i'm sticking hard to my Ramadhan list this year. We don't know when we will leave this world.

Another thing i argue with my head when i start thinking about,"How come others can enjoy and i cannot?" I ask myself, "Do i want the good things in this world only? This temporary world that we live in? Or do i want good things in this life and the hereafter too?" This life is temporary. What we sacrifice here, we will get it in the hereafter, God Willing. Dad also raised the issue on why we don't get what we want HERE even though we pray and work hard for it. "Maybe if God don't give you what you want here, with His permission, maybe He will give it to you in the afterlife."

This Ramadhan is a step for me to change. What's between me and God, really.. I'm trying to change insyaAllah. And i hope it's going to be permanent.

I think we should all ponder about the little if not unanimous things and make the right decisions this Ramadhan. And God Willing, He will help us change. Not only for this holy month, but in the long run as well.

Amin.

, osn.

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