It's here, it's here! (almost.) Alhamdulillah - we've been trained (? perhaps 'nurtured' sounds better) to greet Rajab with the zeal people normally reserve for Ramadan.
We were told that if we didn't do anything in Rajab, we wouldn't really get much in Ramadan (relative to what could be achieved). I think Ramadan with its general beauty and barakah is a very pleasant and smooth month, even with the long fasts and lengthy night prayers. But Rajab is supposed to be about putting in the hard graft, which is naturally more difficult because of all the irritating devils still hanging about, making the most of it before they're locked up. But Religion is in the struggle! And that is why we pray: "O Allah: bless us in Rajab and Sha`ban, and deliver us to Ramadan", because once we've had the good fortune of doing all of our hard work in the two preceding months, Ramadan will be easy pickings, in sha Allah - and all we have to do is turn up!
So, felicitations to us!
May Allah grant us fasting days, and Qur'an filled nights.
And may He bless our parents and our teachers.
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