This year, Allah- the Exalted and the Almighty- gave us our holy month Ramadan in these corona-days.
We all sit at our homes not to kill each other.
Maybe we were killing already, so we should be also considered that. By watching the deaths, by being silent to the deaths, by establishing freaking systems that reward the killers ...
"Whoever helps break the fast of a fasting person, he will have the same reward as him without decreasing anything from the reward of the fasting person.” (Hadith). We will not be able to give our believer fellows an iftar this year. Who knows, maybe we have started to see it as a burden for a long ago. We, first, lost the spirituality of helping break the fast of a fasting person, then maybe the material part was also taken away from us, we cannot know. But we can think.
Many people serving in restaurants that will never be opened this year could not have their iftar for breadwinning. There were many believers who could not fast because of their working hard.
We have a whole new Ramadan in front of us to think about for both as believers and employers what we have lost and what are the things we were going after.
His doors never be closed on us.
As long as we're not dead, there will always be a righteous deed that suits us.
For gentlemen, this may mean to say “this Ramadan I will be the one who cook and prepare the Sahur” instead of saying “thank you” while leaving the table. To take responsibility for setting a table.
The virus did its job, it cleaned the air, the water. He dragged the wild man who so far destroyed everything into his home. It (the virus) is also a servant of God, and we are too; moreover, we are highly intelligent servants. Even if we are in isolation, we are still servants ... We now have special duties for Ramadan. For example, this month, Rasulullah (pbuh) gave more importance than ever to charity that extinguishes sins, protects from bad death, defeats troubles, replicates few, and removes illnesses as water extinguishes fire ...
Our Sahabas ( the Companions) had a hard time finding words to describe this generosity and stated: “When the month of Ramadan came, the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) became more generous than the wind that blew” Even if we cannot give iftar or go to tarawih, we can keep our charity more than ever, and all believers can be like a warm breeze for the rest of the whole world.
We can set our tables more modestly and avoid any kind of wasting. When he tests us in different ways, it is all about to make us patience so that we can become “worthy”. He tests in order to make us a better believer. As Mevlana says; The purpose of beating carpet is not to beat the carpet itself but it is to remove the dust on the carpet, Let’s get our "dust" out with the help of the winds of Ramadan while there is still time to be purified.
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