I've always known that ramadhan is a testing time, beyond the normal "i'm so hungry, i'm so thirsty" test. Sometimes even beyond the test of the spiritual. What test is left, i hear someone shouting at me from far, far behind yonder. Well, the test of our humanity it one. The test of our relationships with other human beings is another. The tests we face in every other day of the year, magnified somehow due to the act of the fast.
God works in subtle, mysterious ways. What He takes with one hand, he offers back with the other. Most times this is true. He challenges us, pushing us to grow beyond the confines of our box. He does this constantly; though what better time to do it than now, when our minds and bodies are in a weakened state.
It really is up to us to be worthy, or to hold our hands up and say, "I give up." Which will you be today?
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