Counting down the days before Ramadan can be a hype sometimes. The 'Ceesays and Sanyangs' will make you want to shout, like: "Hey, tone down the pretension! Ramadan's been here for over one thousand years ago."
But on a serious note, and unless lifestyle change becomes a divinely sanctioned monopoly, none of us has the right to pick at, or judge anyone, or even call anyone a "Muslim by Ramadan," especially not on account of the person's sudden Ramadan-friendly behaviour.
We need to understand that people don't change for the better by doing what they used to do. They change by doing something different; something that will render their old ways obsolete, and that takes a process. So if other people's change processes offend you so much that you have to find faults with them, you need help yourself.
May this Ramadan be the starting point of a new us, and may the spirit be alive even after Ramadan.
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