{"id":8918,"date":"2025-03-27T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/?p=8918"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:45:09","slug":"time-to-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/time-to-say-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to say \u2026Goodbye!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9693-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9693-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9693-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9693-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9693-463x617.jpg 463w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9693.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">27th Ramadhan 1446<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As the crescent moon signals Ramadan\u2019s farewell, your heart sways between gratitude and longing\u2014tired yet fulfilled, wistful yet hopeful. This is the sweetness of \u2018huzn al-ikhlas\u2019 (the sadness of sincerity), a sign your worship was poured from the soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imam Al-Ghazali wrote, <em>\u2018The believer\u2019s sadness is not for the past, but for the scarcity of moments to draw nearer to Allah.\u2019<\/em> You mourn not because Ramadan is gone, but because its mercy was so vast, and your soul thrived in its light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet take joy, for Ibn Qayyim reminds us: <em>\u2018The end of an act of worship is the birth of its reward.\u2019<\/em> Your fatigue is a badge of honor, your contentment a glimpse of Jannah\u2019s joy. And as the Prophet \ufdfa promised, <em>\u2018When Ramadan departs, the gates of dua remain wide open.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So whisper, <em>\u2018Oh Allah, let me live to see Ramadan again,\u2019<\/em> and carry its lessons forward. For the best of believers are those who grieve over missed chances but rise with determination\u2014like the moon, which wanes only to return, brighter and more beloved.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9692-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9692-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9692-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9692-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9692-463x617.jpg 463w, https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_9692.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fresh blooms from a faithful effort. Can faith be renewed as beautifully as these colorful plants?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>May your post-Ramadan days be filled with the same barakah, and may Allah accept your efforts and grant you many more Ramadans to come. \ud83c\udf19\ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>As the crescent moon signals Ramadan\u2019s farewell, your heart sways between gratitude and longing\u2014tired yet fulfilled, wistful yet hopeful. This is the sweetness of \u2018huzn al-ikhlas\u2019 (the sadness of sincerity), a sign your worship was poured from the soul. Imam Al-Ghazali wrote, \u2018The believer\u2019s sadness is not for the past, but for the scarcity of &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[65,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordinabubakar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}