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I received the following in an email from imase this morning and wanted to share it:

Ramadan is derived from an Arabic word for intense heat and scorched ground

As heat cleans that which is unclean, may this month clean our heart from any impurity within

As heat that scours the muck off a surface, may this month bar our speech from vain chatter

As heat that removes foul odour from the air, may this month remove wicked visions from our eyes

As the heat that welds two pieces of iron together, may this month connect our hand and legs to beneficial things

As the heat that eradicates the germs from the environment, may this month remove bad thoughts from our mind and replace it with good faith;

And so we ask our Creator for the heat of this month to purify us and return us to the scorched ground where we stand on the Last Day. On the day when the heat will raze to the scorched ground all our facade which we build with so much effort, and leave us with only that which is within, blown unto us by the Creator on the day of our creation.