Ramadan During Lockdown

This year, since everyone is at home during the pandemic, as before this lockdown happened, we muslims were keeping ourselves busy by attending gatherings, arranging gatherings, attending lectures, etc. However, the questions we ask ourselves is how have we spent our time? Did we learn anything useful? These questions will be answered in this post, as I am going to discuss how I spent my time, things that I have missed during Ramadan, things I did not miss, and things I have discovered about myself.

I spend my Ramadan, reflecting on myself, doing religious acts, such as reading Quran and praying salatul Layl, and doing a3mal in Layalatul Qadir. I have listened to   lectures online, on Usama Attar's tafsir on Suratul Mulk, about how to control ourselves, how we are created by Allah, freewill, etc. What I have learned so far, is that our actions have consequences. We have a choice on whether to obey Allah or disobey Allah. If we make good choices, we will go to Janah inshallah, if we make bad choices, such as hanging out with people who tempt you to do haram actions, such as smoking, drugs, alcohol, stealing, bullying,  disrespecting your parents, not wearing your hijab in the right way, behaving inappropriately with non-mahrams, etc, will result in going to jahanam, adubillah. Therefore, we need to think carefully of our actions and make good choices, by choosing your friends wisely, praying daily, respecting your parents, wearing your hijab in the right way, and behaving appropriately with non-mahrams.
I also spent my time with my family by watching a Kuwaiti series called 'Janat Hali', which I will talk in more detail in my next blog post inshallah. I also spent by reading Dua Iftitah.

The things that I missed during Ramadan is seeing my sister Khamael, and her daughter Zahra over Iftar, and attending lectures in centres. I do not miss gatherings,  as I mentioned in my previous post, large gatherings can be stressful. I prefer staying at home during Ramadan, and performing religious acts, and spending time with my family.

The things that I have discovered about myself, is that when I was listening to Usama Attar's lectures, during salah, sometimes my mind tends to wander, so I discovered that before salah, we can do istighfar, to keep ourselves focused.

Next blog post: Janat Hali Series Review

Islam

Islam is our religion. People who believe in Islam are called muslims. We muslims do not worship any god other than Allah(s.w.t). We pray, fast in Ramadan, do Hajj, umra, read quran, wear Hijab and so on. There are things that we must do, must not do, better to do, better not to do and allowed. There are called:
Wajib(must do, if not done then you get sins)
Haram(must not do, if done then you get sins)
Mustahab( better to do, if not done then you don't get sins)
Makruh(better not to do, if done then you don't get sins)
Jaiz(allowed)

The things that are wajib are praying, fasting, giving money to charity and so on.
The things that are Haram are listening to music, taking drugs and alcohol,killing yourself and others and so on.
The things that are mustahab are Salatul Layl, reading quran dua and so on.
The things that are makruh are praying salah in front of the mirror or picture, blowing your food when it's hot and so on.
That things that are jaiz is anything you can do in your free time like, reading, eating fruit and so on.
There are also five pillars of islam which are Usool. Which are:
1- Tawheed
2- Adala
3- Nubuwa
4- Imama
5- Qiyama

There are also ten pillars of islam which are:
1- Salah
2- Saum
3- Hajj
4- Zakat
5- Khums
6- Jihad
7- Amr bil marouf
8- nahi an al munkar
9- Tawala
10- Tabara

All these pillars of islam are Wajib.