As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
Today is the Day of Arafat, when the pilgrims will be standing on Mount Arafat seeking forgiveness from their Lord, with wet eyes.
Allah ta’ala swore by this day in Surah Al-Buruj [85:3],
وَشَاهِدٍۢ وَمَشْهُودٍۢ
(I took this photo from The Meaning of Islam, without permission.)
It is recommend for those of us, who could not be present, to fast today. We all know that right? We’ve heard the lectures and read the blog posts.
Yet when my wife asked me yesterday evening if I was going to fast, I replied that I didn’t know. Even as I went to sleep last night, I wasn’t sure. When the alarm went off in the morning, I had forgotten all about it.
I had been fighting a battle. On one side, there was me, weak and pathetic. On the other Shaytan, who had been successfully beating me with a stick of stupidity.
Within a minute of my wife going downstairs to prepare her suhoor, with the loud clangs and bangs that disturb the night’s silence on these types of occasions, I was determined to fast as well.
My wife only asked me one time about fasting. She didn’t even mention it to me when she woke up or when I did eventually come down stairs, after making sure the boy was still asleep. There was no need, her action of getting out of bed was far more inspiring than any lecture or article that I’ve read.
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