Productive Ramadan: Will we continue?
Tuesday, September 07, 2010 Read more → muslim blogs, ramadan, top tips In the name of God, entirely Compassionate, especially Merciful | Peace be with you
In the name of God, compassionate & merciful بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ | Peace be with you السلام عليكم
Around this time each year, a feeling of ‘sadness’ clouds our hearts. We feel sad because we wonder if we’ll ever continue being this spiritual and close to Allah (subhanahu wa ta`ala) as we were during Ramadan. Our past experiences have shown that we always fail to keep up after Ramadan, so what can we do?!
Productive Muslim just released a video on this topic in which he shares 6 tips with you (Watch here), but here’s one important idea he didn’t mention in the video:
Normally, one of the big reasons why we ‘fall’ after Ramadan is that we lose self-discipline. We have this false idea in our mind that “It’s Eid! Ramadan's over! Do whatever you want!” (even though we don’t say this, our actions do!)
One of the best ways to fight this is to instil discipline in your life from day 1 of Shawwal. And here’s a quick way of doing this: From the day of Eid, make sure you wake up early and stay up those early hours of the morning. Occupy these precious hours with either reading quietly, doing some housekeeping tasks or even taking your children to the park/sea-side for a nice picnic.
By this ONE simple act of waking up early (for fajr at least) and staying up in those early hours you’ll be installing self-discipline in your life which will radiate in the rest of your day and actions. Also, by this one simple act, you’ll be setting yourself up to a productive and healthy post-Ramadan lifestyle that’s going to help you throughout the year insha'Allah.
Try it this year. Let us know how it goes!
Productive Muslim just released a video on this topic in which he shares 6 tips with you (Watch here), but here’s one important idea he didn’t mention in the video:
Normally, one of the big reasons why we ‘fall’ after Ramadan is that we lose self-discipline. We have this false idea in our mind that “It’s Eid! Ramadan's over! Do whatever you want!” (even though we don’t say this, our actions do!)
One of the best ways to fight this is to instil discipline in your life from day 1 of Shawwal. And here’s a quick way of doing this: From the day of Eid, make sure you wake up early and stay up those early hours of the morning. Occupy these precious hours with either reading quietly, doing some housekeeping tasks or even taking your children to the park/sea-side for a nice picnic.
By this ONE simple act of waking up early (for fajr at least) and staying up in those early hours you’ll be installing self-discipline in your life which will radiate in the rest of your day and actions. Also, by this one simple act, you’ll be setting yourself up to a productive and healthy post-Ramadan lifestyle that’s going to help you throughout the year insha'Allah.
Try it this year. Let us know how it goes!
Yours sincerely,
ProductiveMuslim
ProductiveMuslim
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