What Would You Call Them

WHAT WOULD YOU CALL THEM? They offer Tahajjud salaah in the midst of the night. They wake up for Suhur at pre-dawn. They adhere to fasting very religiously. They recite the Holy Qur’an very profoundly. They hymn their Tasbeeh very regularly. They never miss Takbeer-e-oola of each Fardh salaah and they never get tired of offering numerous Nawafil salaah. They avoid quarreling with people even if they are provoked. They never miss the twenty raqaa of Taraweeh. They do not watch movies / TV even at night. Neither do they involve themselves in frivolous talk. They avoid backbiting, gossiping and telling lies. They do not waste their time playing games. Their faces reflect a new height in religious fervor. Welcome to the world of these ‘Very Special People’ – a group that reflects an amazing and unusual degree of piety. There is one BIG PROBLEM (note the use of capital letters), however, with this group of ‘Very Special People’. And that problem is: their piety, their religious steadfastness, their performance of Tahajjud salaah and even their regularity and punctuality in offering Fardh Salaah, their reciting of the Holy Qur’an, their temper restraint, their refraining from watching movies and TV are restricted to RAMADHAN only. As soon as the month of Ramadhan Kareem is over this group of ‘Very Special People’ go back to their old life full of vices like backbiting, telling lies, watching movies, quarreling, missing salaah with Jamaat (and at times, missing altogether) etc. For eleven months these people behave in the most un-Islamic way but during that one month (Ramadhan) they get transformed into very pious Muslims. What would you call them?

1/12 Muslims? Allah knows best. May He save us from His wrath and grant us His mercy…AMEEN