Ramadan Is What I Did Wrong

Ramadan: Do you get sad when ramadan ends?

Asalamu alaikum warahmatu allahi wabaraktuh

IT HAS BEEN FOREVER
I haven't been on here in AGES
I feel so bad wow but it's been a crazy ramadan for me, what about you guys?

As I get older Ramadan isn't about trying to get my mind off food until iftar, it's trying to become a better person out of this....plus I actually have to help out now ._.

All this month I kept remembering all the dumb things I've done in my life (I haven't done anything horribly wrong per say but just sometimes the things I say to people, I can get a little mean or just say stupid things. and then I feel like a horrible person afterwards haha)

and hopefully this goal to be a better person isn't just a one month thing, I want it to have an everlasting impression

I always get a little sad when ramadan ends (even though I'd rather not do a mountain of dishes every night), idk everyone just seems more unified during this holy month

so do you guys get sad when ramadan ends? there's always eid to look forward to!

ANYWAY
Salaam!

Ramadan: Did your pets die? :(?

animals die

When to eat in the morning - Ramadan?

Regarding Ramadan and fasting, are we supposed to eat before fajr or shuruk? According to my timetable, it says that shuruk is sunrise.
I have been eating up until shuruk. So for example, this morning, shuruk was at 6:22 and so I ate until 6:20. I have been doing this all week - I think I did it wrong.

Thank you,
Ramadan Kareem

Ramadan ¬ Read wrong time on watch - ate Suhoor an 1 hour late by accident!! Invalidate fast?

so i woke up at 4.30am
and was like..oh i'll wake myself up in 30min for suhoor (supposed to before 5.19am)...
ONLY..i woke up 1HR 30MIN later...at 6!!

I looked at my watch and read it as 5am (so embarassing)..so i went and ate Suhoor (after Fajr time but before Shurooq)
...this was clearly out of ignorance and stupidity and inability of being able to read my watch in the dark lol

Did this invalidate my fast..that i ate suhoor when i was supposed to be fasting because i read my watch wrong lol (*blush*)? shuld i make this day up at the end of Ramadan or does it still count?

plz advise - im beating myself up about this lolz

Ramadan ~ is it wrong/bad to be different (black sheep)?

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah

I hate that phrase "black sheep". As if a poor little black sheep did anything wrong by being born that color. Listen, the "black sheep" of the world are ESSENTIAL. The "black sheep" often don't fit in because they think in a different way, see the world in a different way. They might grow up to become great scientists, or economists, or ecologists, or invent a vaccine that saves lives, or help in a million ways that their more quiet and conventional siblings don't. I was the black sheep in my family - I grew up a Christian and then Allah guided me to Islam.

Don't think you have to "run away", though you may end up leaving, for school, for work, for volunteering.... Keep good relations with your loved ones, fear Allah and fulfill your requirements of prayer, fasting, and charity, and then think of what you love to do, and find a way to do it in a permissible fashion. Don't feel like you have to be a "good girl" and fulfill your PARENTS' ideas of what they want for you. You have to live in your own skin, so you have to make sure you do what you want in life. No one gets everything that they want, so you will have to make compromises, but DON'T SETTLE. Life is to short to settle, and Allah does not require you to give up your happiness for the sake of others.

Fi Aman Allah,

Nancy Umm Abdel Hamid