Ramadhan For Better Life
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The month of Ramadan is the month of tarbiyah that educates us to be accustomed to performing various good deeds, to be better and to abandon all self-destructive sinners. It should be after Ramadan, a Muslim becomes better, but -wal 'iyadzu billah - there are also people who after Ramadan are back to worse and worse than before. Ramadan only he uses momentum to get to know Allah and after Ramadan he intends to forgot Allah as the creator.
There is an expression of salaf:
بئس القوم الذين لا يعرفون الله إلا في رمضان
"The worst of the people are those who do not know God except only in the month of Ramadan."
Syaikn Abdul Aziz bin Baz explains that this meaning of speech is true if they neglect their religious obligations after Ramadan. Such when Ramadan she diligent in prayer and wearing the hijab, but after Ramadan the praying perforated (Not always 5 times once a day) and re-take off the hijab.
He explained,
وهذا صحيح إذا كانوا يضيعون الفرائض, أما إذا كان لا, إنما يتركون بعض الاجتهاد فالقول هذا ما هو بصحيح, لكن مراده الذين يتركون الفرائض, يعني: يصلي في رمضان ويترك الصلاة فيما سوى رمضان مثلا, فهذا بئس القوم لأنهم كفروا بهذا
"This phrase is true if they neglect their religious duties. Either way, it leaves only part of the ijtihad case. This expression is true, but the intention is to abandon obligatory things, such as praying in the month of Ramadan and then leave prayers other than the month of Ramadan, then this is the ugly of the people because they have committed disbelief. "[1]
Leaving salat is very dangerous because the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam said,
بين الرجل وبين الشرك والكفر ترك الصلاة
"(Boundaries) between a person with shirk and kufr is to leave prayer." [2]
Previously performing the prayer then did not do it again likened to a neat lint then unraveled and scattered.
Allah ta'ala says,
ولا تكونوا كالتي نقضت غزلها من بعد قوة أنكاثا
And do not be like she who untwisted her spun thread after it was strong [by] taking your oaths as [means of] deceit between you because one community is more plentiful [in number or wealth] than another community. Allah only tries you thereby. And He will surely make clear to you on the Day of Resurrection that over which you used to differ.
Should we be very careful and may Allah help us, so we do not intend bad, that is just want to leave immoral in the month of Ramadan only, after Ramadan we intend to do it again.
Ibn Taymiyya said,
من يعزم على ترك المعاصي في شهر رمضان دون غيره فليس هذا بتائب مطلقا ولكنه تارك للفعل في رمضان
"Whoever is determined to leave immoral in the month of Ramadan alone, without determining in the other month, then he is not a man who repents absolutely, but he is just a person who abandoned immorality in Ramadan." [3]
Hopefully, we can be in the month of Ramadan while fasting as the increase of our piety because this is the purpose as in Al-Quran:
يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون
O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous -.
Footnote:
[1] Source: https://binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/14863/ الحكم-على-قول-لا-يفلح-قوم-لا-يعرفون-الله-الا-في-رمضان
[2] HR. Muslim
[3] Al-Majmu 'Al-Fatawa 10/743
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