Takeaway from Ramadhaan...

#Post Ramadhaan# Silent Whisperer# Change#Kaabah house of worship#

Nobody enters heaven kicking and screaming. None of the doors of heaven are kicked open. Every person will return with the wage of his labor. Only thing we have have is our efforts.

Thirty days of voluntary struggle. Fasting and refraining. A discipline we honored without force or pressure. Son and daughter of Adam how so without duress, force, pressure or under the lash you were able to restrain and discipline yourself. The Power of Change, is a challenge- The Power of One will not change our condition without effort and strive on our heart. Change and open the doors of Mercy and Favor: " Allah will not withdraw a favor that He has bestowed on a people unless they change what is in their hearts." 8:53 . The post Ramadhaan is an ideal moment to audit our life before the Great Audit and before Allah Swt. There is no normalcy returning to the familiar, the consuming away our life, time, wealth, in a waste that will not benefit our return home to stand before the Great Auditor.

We have choices. We return to a life where we did as we desired. No fear of accountability. Today we stand on a threshold of returning to the normal or making a concerted change towards goodness, towards a personal and spiritual development and cleansing. Challenge yourself, by beginning with the intention to change, Never fear, we are from the Creation of the Power of One, Who has provided us with clear guidance, direction and assistance along the way.

The Silent Whispering, Iblees, Shaytaan will resume his challenge by applying the power of persausion. Wetting our appetite for the forbidden and reminding us of all the temporary and momentarily pleasures we enjoyed. The heart that is a home for Shaytaan finds it a challenge and he continues to create doubts, confusion, unceertainity about making a turn towards Allah Swt. He pumps into our soul doubts that create friction towards all the goodness we entertained in Ramadhaan. Shaytaan targets those close to us by fanning hate, aniomosity and jealousy. The whisper of evil continues till you return to the way you are familiar. He has no power to harm you, nor take you by the hand and force you to act. He reign and rules by the power of fear, suspicion, doubt, worry. He torments you. The heart belongs to, by virtue that is the place, the Kaabah of worship. We can only succeed when we cleanse the Kaabah of the 360 idols of our own making and house the Love, Obedience and Worship of Allah Swt. Ramadhaan has or prioritise those idols that we need to throw out and replace with the Lord of the Dawn, from the mischief and evil of created things, whisperings of Shaytaan, evil of men and jinn and their practise of evil and magic.

The gift of reminder from the Creator, the the Mercy from the Merciful, take the protection from the All Powerful. Return to Allah and secure your hereafter. When we in salaah, before the presence of the Almighty, the world behind us, we submit and in the moment of our salat let us tune in to the silence, in the stillness we will feel the Power of the Presence of The Mighty One. It is time we listen to the silence and begin to come alive.