Ahlan Ya Ramadhan 1431H

"Ramadhan has arrived to you, a month of barakah (blessings), Allah envelops you (with His mercy & blessings), so He descends His mercy, erases the sins, answers your du’as, and He watches your competition in virtuous deeds and He boasts in front of the angels about you. So let Allah see the best from you, for truly, the miserable one is he who is deprived from the mercy of Allah (in this month)."

[Tabaranee, Saheeh]

TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS FOR RAMADHAN

Some practical tips to maximize the time during Ramadhan & to prepare ourselves for Ibadah & worship during this blessed month of Ramadhan.

TIPS:

Clean up the time:

a) Telephone:

Minimize your chat on the telephone. If you are used to chat with your friends on a regular basis, try to make it short. Share with her the importance of this month & tell her that you want to devote yourself for Ibadah in order to get the maximum reward in this month.

Share with her these tips.

b) Cooking:

Try to cook something simple during Ramadhn as this is a month of Ibadah & Qur'an, not the month of food. There are some husbands who push their wives to cook different varieties of food & sisters have to spend their time in the kitchen. If it's very necessary, keep a tape of Qur'an in the kitchen & listen to it while you are busy in kitchen, or keep your tongue moist with the Zikr. [find out some short cut & tips to prepare the food quickly]

C) Shopping:

Get all your shopping done before Ramadhan. Make a list of the things/grocery/ items, that is enough for one month & buy it all together.

Important: Try to do the Eid shopping NOW. The last ten days of Ramadhan when we have to be doing more Ibadah & spend our time in doing good deeds, most of the muslims are busy in doing shopping for Eid & their kids.

Sisters! These ten days, we have to exaggerate ourselves in doing more Ibadah & to catch Laylat-ul-Qadr.
Make this Ramadhan a very different from all the previous Ramadhans.

D) Dinner Parties/Iftaar:

Iftaar parties during ramadhan are getting very common now. This is the Month for you sisters!! We have the rest of the full year to do parties & to socialize. Indeed it's a great reward to break someone's fast but give food to people who are needy & poor.

The prophet Sallalahu ‘Alayhi wa sallam said: "Whoever gives food to a fasting person with which to break his fast, will have a reward equal to his, without it detracting in the slightest from the reward of the fasting person." (Reported by al-Tirmidhi Saheeh al-Targheeb) .

E) Sleeping:

Cut less the time of sleep during this month. It's a month of Ibadah, doing good deeds. Who knows this could be our last Ramadhan. Reduce your sleeping hours. Its only one month & then you can get back to your normal routine.

(*) Computer & Internet: (1)

This is a personnel experience & request. Spending a lot of time on the internet, even if visiting Islamic sites really takes hours without notice. Try to minimize your internet timings by just checking emails/stuff once a week.