Confessions of a Practicing Muslim (+FREE Ramadan Printables) - Updated: 2023 | AYEINA (2024)

UPDATED: 2023

Once upon a time

I became a Muslim

I felt so Muslim

I looked so Muslim

I built a house

With the bricks of faith

Cement of taqwa

And hope at every gate

I called towards Islam

I studied Arabic, I studied Qur’an

I left music, I left the haram

I left bad company, I left the show

And covered myself from head to toe

I prayed all the sunnah. I prayed tahajjud

I prayed like my life depended on it

I made long sujood and cried in my duas

My heart trembledwith the recitation of Qur’an

Years went by and the struggle continued

I beat the shaitaan in every room

I fought longand hard

I fought with my all

Then step by step,I slowed down in my race

While thinking I will always win

And one by one, half war half peace

I started losingthe fights within

And blamed it all on shaitaan

I’m so busy raising the next ummah

I blamed parenthood for the weakness of imaan

My heart now beats but the tremor is gone

My lips make dua but the tears are gone

My limbsoffer prayer but khushoo is gone

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My body is present but the soul feels lost

So I wait here for the new moon

Please Ramadan, come back soon

My stomach is ready to leave the food

If you can feed my soul soon

I’m tired of climbing

but never quite reaching the goal

I’m tired of trying

but never quite making it whole

Ya Allah, let this month of blessings

be my step towards a change

Towards a better me

Towards a better reflection of me

So I can look back in the mirror

and see the person looking back

who looks so Muslim

and who feels so Muslim

I know all of us are awaiting Ramadan so anxiously – hoping to break out of our procrastinating habits…so may Allah help us experience the best Ramadan this year!

We prepared some of these resources for ourselves and hope that you find them useful as well in shaa Allah. May this help you wait for Ramadan eagerly – with a hope of change. Change towards a better YOU bi’idhnillah (with the will of Allah).

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