On Your Marks, Get Set …
Less than two weeks remain until Ramadhan begins, and Abdur-Rahman prepares us at the starting blocks for the only race worth racing.
But then, Ramadan is also the beginning of a race - a race against the selfish dictates of the soul and a race of endurance in the face of privation and quietude. The first two weeks of Ramadan find me energised and enthused. As with any race, fatigue begins to set in towards the end and I find myself flagging. In the past, I’ve either ignored my failing stamina (and thus exhausted myself to the point of illness) or else I’ve slowed down, at exactly the wrong time.
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