If Ramadan Isn't Enough Motivation

Assalamualaikum. I pray this meets you well. Ramadan Mubarak

So you spent months thinking what went wrong with your relationship with God. You thought of reasons why you're so far from God. Why it's not so easy to recite the Qur'an anymore. Why you don't pray nawafil anymore. In fact, you can't even remember the last time you prayed tahajjud.

Not wanting to blame yourself, you gladly put the blame on work. Don't smile. Yes, you. You that put the blame on school. You also don't have enough excuse.

Now when you speak you say, "I used to read the Qur'an." "I used to spend my night in prayers." Do you hear yourself? "I used to." May Allah rectify our affairs.

Now Ramadan is here and you let the days and nights go by like every other day and night? Did you hear the applause? Its for you. You're fasting Ramadan, Alhamdullilah!

You spend your day fasting but is that enough? No, you don't recite the Qur'an. You don't stop lying. Now I can't stop laughing...you still watch movies with you know, little sex scenes. I hail. You're doing well. And you believe that? No! You're not doing well!

Pay close attention please to the sentences that come next. Ramadan comes only once a year, why waste this golden opportunity?Listen, you've probably wasted most of your time this year doing things that will not benefit you when you stand before your Lord, but I plead with you, allow Ramadan change the state of your heart positively.

If Ramadan isn't enough motivation to do good, then what month of the year would inspire you to draw close to Allah.

Let Ramadan motivate you to pray, to give charity,to recite Qur'an, to do all that is good. Most of all, allow it inspire you to remain steadfast after Ramadan.

Keep in mind beloved, that there's no guarantee that you'll be alive next Ramadan or even till the end of this Ramadan. So make the most of this Ramadan.

May Allah grant us long lives in good health.