Thanks 🙂 I needed to hear that. Jazakoum Allahu khaiyran.

Until you breathe your last, there’s always an opportunity to give it your best shot. Even if Ramadan passes, and you know you didn’t give it your best, it’s up to you whether you turn that remorse into something positive or negative.

Positive: Be inspired to be better. Increasing piety and character doesn’t end in Ramadan.

Negative: Be immersed in guilt. This is despairing in God’s Mercy and that is not the way of the Muslim.

The Muslim believes that God is always waiting to forgive you and to give you another chance to the very end. Remember that in the Qur’an, Joseph’s father advised his sons:

{وَلَا تَيْأَسُوا مِن رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّهُ لَا يَيْأَسُ مِن رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْكَافِرُونَ}
“Do not despair in the tender mercy of God. For none despair of his tender mercy except for a people who disbelieve.” [12:87]