The 10 days that can change your life.

The blessed last ten days have arrived !!
Roll up you sleeves and get ready for some serious worship.
It's amazing that our religion does not promote monasticism or "Tark e Duniya" . We are told emphatically to be active members of the society. Piety is measured by how kind, loving and involved you are towards your family and the society at large. But these last 10 days one has been commanded to exert oneself in worship, zikr, dua, Quran, Salah. Even to an extent you seclude your self from the dunya either in the masjid to draw near to your Lord..

Many a times it become a "Fiqhi" debate "can women do I'tikaf because of their responsibilities at home, it may become difficult for them to leave everything, lock the house and stay in the masjid. Even though from a "Fiqh" point of view I'tikaf is done in the masjid. It cannot be done at home.
But from a spiritual point of view, one can create the essense of "leaving the dunya and going into a spiritual seclusion" and drawing close to Allah by exerting ourselves in reciting the Quran, doing a lot of Dua and being in the perpetual state of Zikr throughout these 10 days.

Unfortunately, us women tend to waste most of the time on the phone with "he said she said talk" and then around Iftar time, somebody has to prepare a meal for the hungry beasts at home, the students are too busy in college and the working women place more importance on their work than drawing close to their Lord, who they are going to meet very soon.
This is how these blessed days go by.

Then of course we have the Eid tchot (bakery) shopping, and most of the time is spent roaming around in the car. What if Hatrick and Mughal Darbar are gonna be bankrupt before Eid and "mandhatchh pey aes if we don't have scores of frash cake and pestry to compliment the extensive waz syun we already ordered"

The Messenger (saw) said, "Whoever is deprived of its blessings has indeed been deprived of all good. And none is deprived of its good except he who is completely unfortunate (mehroom)"
(Reported by Ibn Majah)

So after this pep talk, it's time to get charged up and worship Allah swt the way we have never worshipped Him before.

P.s: Don't forget that the best deed is charity as it extinguishes the fire of hell..So keep your pockets open.