Jamaat-e-Islami Hind President Syed Saadatullah Husaini has reframed Ramadan as an intensive program for spiritual overhaul and principled fortitude, especially as faith faces relentless sieges. In his evocative pre-Ramadan address from New Delhi, he calls for a deeper engagement with the fast.
Fasting’s core mission, amid pressures on belief and ethics, is fostering genuine devotion, forbearance, and inner power, he said. True worship is an acute awareness of divine oversight, sparking reluctance for vice and zeal for righteousness.
Ramadan instructs the faithful to inhabit a spiritually alert existence, surpassing superficial rites. It pivots satisfaction from fleshly wants to ethereal highs, with fasting’s trials underscoring that physical repose isn’t life’s measure.
Seeking forgiveness purifies and redirects the soul, Husaini affirmed. He termed it the ‘month of self-control,’ embodying unyielding principle-holding like immovable rock versus tempests within and without.
Mastering impulses during hunger, thirst, labors, and distractions ensures deeds flow from conviction, not caprice. Divine sacrifices in habits build tenacity for pressured resolutions.
Husaini decried social media’s moral corrosion and tech-era value erosions, advising Muslims to elevate Ramadan beyond optics into a transformative juncture yielding purity and resolute communal progress.