Oh God, grant us blessings in Ramadan

Happy returns. The month of mercy and forgiveness, the holy month of Ramadan, has begun with its Qur’an and its scents, carrying with it forgiveness, and a great reward for all who fasted and prayed sincerely. 

The holy month is carrying goodness and blessings, with its spiritual atmosphere that we expect from year to year, and for the second year in a row, we fast with our Christian brothers, we are fasting during Ramadan, and they are fasting during the Great Lent, in a beautiful scene that reflects love and national unity.

In Ramadan, the family gathers around breakfast and suhoor table, and exchange congratulations, and all our focus becomes on food, drink, and tables filled with all pleasures and delights, and watching the drama and series that fill the screens, but Ramadan is not only the month of food, nor a season for series and drama, rather, it is a month of worship, contemplation and goodness. We should not be preoccupied with food and drama, and forget that it is an opportunity to review ourselves, rearrange our priorities, and get closer to God and our loved ones... an opportunity for obedience and worship. As I wrote in the last article, we must take into account our health, preserve it, and follow the instructions of doctors, so do not eat excessively, especially fatty foods and sweets full of sugar and butter.

I hoped that the drama would take a national and Arab form, but as the viewer wants, the month of Ramadan is an opportunity to fast from everything that harms us, not only from food and drink, but from extravagance, anger, irritability and bad habits. Let's make it a month of goodness and real change.

I wish that this year we will start a new page in our Ramadan habits, so that our only concern will not be eating and watching soap operas and dramas, but rather work, doing good, loving people, and maintaining family ties. Ramadan is not the month of food, nor the month of drama, it is the month of worship and work.

Oh God, accept our fasting, have mercy on us, forgive us, bless our deeds, increase our livelihood, and remove our worries. Oh God, make me one of the happy ones and accept my good deeds, fasting, and prayers. Happy Ramadan.