<font face= "alherian" color="blue">What's happening during Ramadhan</font>

There's been few days since we entered Ramadhan kareem...And Im really grateful tht i've been given a chance by Allah to be able to live and feel the warmth of Ramadhan..And i prayed tht this will be the best Ramadhan for me, all my sins is forgiven and hope tht every deeds tht i made will be accepted by Allah..Ameeenn...
Well, this year's Ramadhan, is totally a different one from any previous Ramadhan tht i'd ever experienced..(bcoz of "the job" thingy..lets not say much about it :P)
I do observe a lot on people around me. When it comes to fasting, most muslims doesnt have any problem with it. From what i saw, every muslims stopped from doing their job when the time to "break" fast is approaching...they prepared their meal and eat together...
However, it's been a tradition in Malaysia to break fasting by eating delicious and expensive food which for me is an uncalled event and its totally a wasteful act..
People spend about rm10-rm30 per day just to buy their food for break-fasting...When i asked them, "isnt it a waste to spend those huge amount of money for one-shot-eat?"Their answer is always the same.."we've been fasting for the whole day, so we must enjoyed the break-fast foods"..its not necessary right?
Well for me, in a particular point, Ramadhan is a month where we can save our budget on food and its a time where we can saved some of our budget for future uses. Go to mosque for free break-fast everyday and attend the qiyamullail and get ur free sahur..sometimes u can get moreh too..saved up ur money..and at the end of the month, u can get one DSLR camera(make sure u r not doing it all just to get free food though :P )

Enough talking bout money and foods...
What I saw during this Ramadhan, muslims are eager to fast...these can be proved by seeing tht all muslim's workers stopped their job and prepared for break-fasting together...However, after they finished their meals, they just continued their job rightaway...Only fews went to Musolla to pray Maghrib prayer...For me, this is a serious event. Both solat and fasting is obligated to all muslims with few exception..I doubt tht people have tht exceptions when it comes to Solat when they can fasting without any problems..Is it bcoz solat is somethng "normal"where we are obligated to do everyday and fasting only comes one month in a year?
The same things goes for solat Fardhu jamaah and solat Tarawih..
People tend to come and joined solat tarawih and neglected the solat fardhu..whereas, solat tarawih is sunat muakkad.

I would like to remind myself and all of us tht we must fulfilled the obligation tht is appointed to us by Allah and at the same time we must know the priority of doing things. First things first!!
Other than tht, we must contained ourselves from doing excessive things which may leads to wasteful event or acts.As Allah dont like redundancy or excessiveness..
And let us think about this too.."are we doing anything bcoz of Allah or are we doing it just bcoz of "tradition" which is practiced by our ancestors?"
Ask ur Iman...

Hopefully, this Ramadhan can lead us somewhere which we can improvise ourselves to become a better muslim mu'min..insyaAllah..
-5yS-