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🌙 Ramadan mubarak💪From Personal Tazkiyah🧠🫀👅🫁👁 to Collective Transformation💖
Ramadan is not only about hunger and thirst.
It is not only long salah, tears in du‘a, or completing the Qur’an!!
Yes....it is tazkiyah of the self and also it is the tazkiyah of society.
Ramadan trains individuals so they can reform the world around them✨🍃
🌿 1️⃣ Ramadan Begins with the Self But Does Not End There!!
Fasting teaches:
>Self-control over desires
>Discipline over impulses
>Patience under discomfort
>Consciousness that Allah sees us
If we can refrain from halal food for Allah, we can refrain from haram power, greed, injustice, and exploitation for Allah?
Ramadan asks:
If you can control your hunger,
can you control your ego?
If you can avoid water, can you avoid harming others?
🕌 2️⃣ The Qur’an Was Revealed to Transform Society
Masajids to be the resource centres for the transformation of societies, communities and nations!!
Ramadan is the month of Qur’an.
But the Qur’an was not revealed only for recitation!! It was revealed to:
>>End oppression
>>Protect women
>>Establish justice
>>Uplift the poor
>>Hold leaders accountable
>>Build moral communities
When Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) received revelation, it did not remain in the CAVE
It came out to reform markets, courts, homes, and leadership!!!
Ramadan reminds us: The Qur’an must be not only on our LIPS but also should enter our SYSTEMS!
⚖️ 3️⃣ Justice Is an Act of Worship
Fasting without justice is incomplete!!
Today we live in a world where:
>Powerful nations preach justice, security & human rights but protect their elites!!
>Women’s dignity, their protection, children's rights & security are spoken about publicly, yet all kinds of exploitation and deep high profile networks exist privately!!
>Wars are justified strategically while civilians suffer!
>Economic interests silence moral outrage!
Ramadan asks us to reflect:
>Are we only spiritual in the masjid
but silent about injustice outside it?!
The Qur’an repeatedly warned that nations fall when:
>Elites become unaccountable!
>Oppression is normalized!
>Economic greed overrides morality!
>Truth is selective!
Ramadan is not isolation from global reality but,
It is clarity about it.
🤝 4️⃣ Collective Responsibility
Ramadan builds community:
》We break fast together.
》We stand shoulder to shoulder.
》We give zakat and sadaqah.
》We feel the thirst & hunger of the poor.
But collective fasting must lead to collective reform.
It means:
》Supporting ethical leadership.
》Refusing to benefit from oppression.
》Protecting children and women in our own communities.
》Speaking truth with wisdom.
》Building organisations & institutions rooted in justice.
Silence in the face of corruption is not neutrality it is participation!
🌿 5️⃣ Reform Begins at Home
Societies collapse when:
●Families weaken.
●Children lack moral anchors.
●Abuse is hidden to protect reputation.
●Wealth circulates among the powerful.
●way of life becomes just a ritual without conscience.
Ramadan invites us to:
♡Heal family relationships.
♡Restore mercy in marriages.
♡Teach children accountability.
♡Build homes of integrity.
Because Medina was built on reformed individuals and families♡♡
🧠 6️⃣ Internal and External Purification
Ramadan purifies:
▪️The heart from arrogance.
▪️ The tongue from falsehood.
▪️ The stomach from excess.
▪️The ego from pride.
But it must also purify:
▪️ Our economic dealings from dishonesty.
▪️Our leadership from corruption.
▪️Our communities from hypocrisy.
▪️ Our alliances from injustice.
True fasting is when injustice starves❗️
🌍 7️⃣ A Message to Powerful Nations and to Ourselves
History shows:
No empire collapsed because of HUNGER
It collapsed because of MORAL DECAY❗️
>When power is protected over justice,
>when image is valued over integrity, >when elites are shielded,
>when war becomes industry
decline begins quietly.........
Ramadan teaches accountability before accountability is forced upon us.
🌙 Final Ramadan Reflection
Ramadan is not only:
*Abstaining from food.
*Lengthening prayer.
*Intensifying du‘a, but
It is:
☆Realigning power with justice.
☆Rebuilding trust in institutions.
☆Protecting the vulnerable.
☆Cleansing society through collective effort.
If we leave Ramadan
▪︎more spiritual but not more just,
▪︎more emotional, but not more ethical,
▪︎more ritualistic but, not more courageous
then we have missed its larger purpose❗️
RAMADAN came to transform MAKKAH into MADINA‼️
May this Ramadan:
>Cleanse our hearts.
>Reform our homes.
>Strengthen our communities.
>Inspire moral courage.
>Align our worship, our duties & responsibilities with justice & integrity InshaAllah
Ameen 🌙
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