Ramadan comes to us every year not to change the rhythm of our daily life, but to be a station where we review our journey on this earth, and to ask deeply and calmly:
How do we live?
And with what spirit do welive?
And how do we deal with those around us and what surrounds us ?
It's not the time that changes in Ramadan, but our way of dealing with ourselves and our perspective on what we are in.
Outside of Ramadan, we spend a full year striving to secure what we need and what we think we need ... in a nonstop work, endless comparisons, and unrest ... Sometimes it changes in form but it never leaves us ever.
The days pass heavily, we rush behind small details, get busy with gains and losses, and race against time day and night... We look at what's in our hands and sometimes forget what's inside us ... until the relationships dry up, the words become harsher, and the hearts harden. And we promise ourselves a suitable time to fix what's broken… but it often never comes.
Ramadan, in essence, is not about enduring hunger, but about refining the self ... an invitation to control actions, choose words carefully, and review reactions. It is spreading goodness, connecting with kin, feeding the needy, and activating almsgiving and charity... In it, souls are elevated, harm is reduced, forgiveness increases, and words soften.
It teaches us that a human is not a body waiting for food, but a heart waiting for meaning, and a soul waiting for mercy ... to evolve forgiveness into a loftiness rather than a weakness, kindness into strength rather than courtesy, and forgiveness into comfort rather than loss, so we live with purer hearts and loftier souls ... Thus morals are elevated, forgiveness multiplies, interactions soften, actions are disciplined, the society becomes cohesive, and the quality of life improves.
In the moment of fasting, the body quiets down a little, allowing the soul space in this inner silence to say: Peace is not in the abundance of what we possess, but in the lightness of what we carry.
Ramadan does not require us to leave the world, but to elevate our morals within it... It reminds us that our lifetimes are too short to be wasted in strife and revenge, and to pass through life... with lighter hands, purer hearts, and a soul believing that what lies with God lasts longer.
Let's make Ramadan a season to repair what's broken, and to sow the best legacy after it passes... for the balance of life does not change with what we take from it, but by what we leave in it of goodness and impact.
And between the anxiety of the earth and the serenity of the sky, humans are not asked to choose between them, but to realize which deserves to lead their heart.
If a person exits Ramadan with a calmer heart, gentler manner, lighter spirit, and a less attached soul ... then they have grasped the essence of the message.
Life is not measured by the length of its days ... but by the depth of the love and tranquility we live in it
