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Ramadan Vol.1 Issue 62 December 2023 ELITE

Kareem

The Heart and Ramadan

By Dr. /Mohammed Baghdadi
RESEARCHER IN PUBLIC ADMINISTARTION
Translated by: Mariam Mohamed Abdel Rahman - Third year- Economics -
maryam.khalil2021@feps.edu.eg

What a great blessed month and what noble results out your worries and push aside the curtain of your
it has on the self, soul, and body. How wonderful sorrows in moments of sincerity and move away
are its prayers and fasting, and its days that miles from your sorrows. The heart has contents
restructure the self and the heart. This heart that and many keys, and the noble month always comes
wants to purify itself, wants to cleanse itself, wants to address the heart, refine the heart, show
to distance itself from materialism to feel compassion to the heart, have mercy on the heart,
spirituality, wants to cry tears of joy instead of connect with the heart, open the heart, speak to the
tears from daily events that do not satisfy or heart, listen to the heart, remove the heart's veil,
nourish, this heart wants to live as planned by the bring gentle air to the heart, comfort the heart, and
Creator God, and this heart wants to speak about tame the heart. It is a process similar to an open
what is inside it because inside it are unheard great
words. This heart has mountainous feelings that heart surgery performed by the blessed month in
encompass the entire universe, and this heart wants our hearts throughout thirty nights amidst the
to converse with God for hours, months, years, amazement of the body and the conversation of the
even centuries to remove the plateaus of worries, soul.
the mountains of pains, the weeping of sorrows, The heart, from time to time and from one stage to
and the dark nights that made it cry thousands of another, needs someone to listen to it and speak in
times. This heart wants to see the Prophet even its presence. We are all mistaken, full of sins, and
once so it can yearn for him, quench its thirst by all perishing, seeking a way out to get closer to
looking at him, and this heart wants to prostrate in God, to restructure these frail, dead, killed,
a prolonged prostration until it loses consciousness miserable, poor, and scattered bodies on the
completely to embrace the sky with its stars, layers, ground.
and galaxies until it reaches the Lote Tree of the Let your heart speak in Ramadan, let your tears
utmost boundary and sees the light of God. This flow in the blessed month, let your feelings see the
heart wants to race against time until it stands noble Prophet, and let all your words be in your
before God free from any grudges and animosities. prostration, for the heavens listen carefully, hear
Imagine yourself now, and in front of you is the you, and indeed love you. I swear to you that they
Messenger of God, what will your heart do? Will it love you, but they require that your heart speaks to
embrace the Prophet? I believe you will embrace them first without barriers, bridges, walls, or
your Prophet and drown in your tears as if they intermediaries because your Lord is very close,
were the Pacific Ocean. What if you had the closer to you than your jugular vein.
31 opportunity to speak honestly with yourself and

keep talking until you pour