Ramadan in Isolation
Bismillah, This is day 39 of the Movement Control Order in Malaysia, and going to be the 2nd day of Ramadan. What a way to fast this year! I'm glad to be with my family during these trying times, alhamdulillah. Just a short reflection since I just finished Setia dengan Kebenaran two days ago. It's a collection of short writeups by Hasrizal Abdul Jamil. Bought it back in 2017, yet it took me 2 years to open it and finish reading it in 10 days. The book coincidentally touched a few things which I had been mulling over these few weeks. One of them is the way I define myself as a Muslim. I was recruited into a Muslim students organization during the early years of my first degree. It was fine at that time, made a lot of good friends which I still keep in touch over the years. I stayed within the organization until graduation, which summed up about 4 years max. When I finished my studies and returned home, another phase of adapting to normal life began. You are someone's ...