We are now well into the month of Ramadan.

And as the days pass, it becomes easy to drift. To lose focus. To slip into routine.

This episode is a personal reminder, first to myself and then to you, to seize what remains of this month and not let it pass like every other year.

Before Ramadan begins, we long for it. We speak about how heavy the year has been. How noisy life has become. How our souls feel drained. Ramadan arrives like relief. Like mercy.

Yet once we enter it, we begin racing through it.

Racing through the fast.

Racing toward sunset.

Racing to finish the Qur’an.

Racing toward the end.

But Ramadan was never meant to be a race to escape the day. It is an invitation to sit within it.

With Shaytan chained, this month gives us space. Space to unchain ourselves from habits, distra ...