Baby Steps of a Muslimah

Tired

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Assalamualaikum

Today is a very long day, indeed. I felt like dropping off to sleep, though, I don’t have a habit of sleeping after Asar, tend to avoid it.

Ramadhan is nearing, and I couldn’t wait. I couldn’t wait to be able to wake up at wee hours in the morning to have sahur with the family, I couldn’t wait to be able to break fast (sungkai) at maghrib with the family, I couldn’t wait to go to the masjid (or my uncle’s house) to solat tarawih, I couldn’t wait to do as much solat sunat as possible, as the benefit of solat sunat equals to that of a solat fardu in Ramadhan.

I’m more excited about Ramadhan than I am on raya. There’s just a lot of benefits that Ramadhan has that the other months don’t have, one of them is the fact that syaitan will be ‘handcuffed’ during Ramadhan to stop them from trying to lure the muslims from doing bad deeds, which means, the only thing that we are fighting against is our own nafs. Jihad an-nafs, one of the hardest war that we have.

Less than a week from now is Ramadhan, I hope I manage to meet Ramadhan.