Ramadan is a special month for Muslims. All around the world, Muslims are ecstatic and distinctive preparations are made for the month. However, many times the importance in a Muslim household during Ramadan is at the food rather than the good deeds to achieve. The questions that arise in many minds are:
What delicacies are for futoor (iftar – breaking of fast)?
Or what is main dish is being prepared for dinner?
Or what is for suhoor (sehri - closing of fast)?
It is seen in many eastern household women are in the kitchen for hours preparing one delectable dish after another for the family. This ends up making them forego their precious time to read the Quran and perform other worshipping act.
Furthermore, sadly, it is the mother of the household alone working in the kitchen while the teen daughters would laze around all day having different excuses not to help their mother in the kitchen such as:
I can't work during fasting I feel weak.
I can't look at food it makes me hungry.
If these excuses the mother would say, what would happen then? The household will go hungry. I have stated in one of my previous posts, about the importance of mother and who is a blessing that we should try our best to take care and help her around.
It is the norm of the society when a young woman gets married she moves to her husband's house. In Islam, after marriage more importance is given to husband and thus a young woman loses out in taking care or helping out her mother.
What I want to say is, instead of wasting time on reading idle books, browsing the social media, watching television or chatting with random people, why not help your mother with the kitchen tasks? With the intention of doing it to please Allah, it will increase one's good deeds. Furthermore, cooking will become easier and faster for the mother and eventually she will have time to worship as well as she desires.
The month of Ramadan is not about sleeping all day or being lazy all day but it is the month to help people around us. Our family comes first and our mother is the most important person in the family.
Let us help our mother in the daily chores of cooking special Iftar. This will not only allow us to have good food but most of all earn some good deeds.
