tired or lazy??

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How can you tell that you’re physically tired vs. simply being lazy?

It’s easy for our laziness to be masked as physical tiredness. We would stand at taraweeh and our legs would be shaking or reciting Quran and our eyelids would be drooping, but the moment we go out of the mosque or close the Quran, suddenly we’re feeling very energetic! We’ve to be careful of this and catch ourselves and rebuke it when we find out that we’re not tired but simply being lazy.

Try to find the root cause for this laziness; is it lack of sincerity? Low eman? A sin you’ve committed that’s preventing you from enjoying the good deed? Make dua that Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) removes such laziness from you, honestly you don’t want it to ruin your Ramadan. However, if your body is genuinely aching and you haven’t slept properly for days, then you’re physically tired and should get some urgent rest.

 How can one get over the mental thought “let me just skip this good deed this time, I’ll do it later?

“Tasweef” – the arabic word for delaying doing things – is a common trick of shaytaan, in fact it is one of his best tricks yet. It sounds so good to delay a good deed until the ‘perfect’ time arrives, BUT the perfect time will never come. The perfect time is NOW! Also remember, that each day of Ramadan that goes by without you doing as much good deeds as you can is a day that’s gone forever and you’ll never see again till the day of Judgement. So how do you want to see your Ramadan days on the Day of Judgement? Full of good deeds or with empty slots because you kept ‘skipping’ good deeds? If you’ve come half-way to this blessed month, don’t let the good deeds slip, instead invest in the few days which remain..

Barakallahulakum...

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