Ramadan Preparation: Part 4 Can you really move forward when you haven’t gotten over your past? Allah says in the Quran: وَتُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ جَمِيعًا أَيُّهَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ “And all of you beg Allah to forgive you all, O believers, that you may be successful” [Quran Surah al-Noor 24: Ayah 31] We all desperately need to seek repentance. Ask Allah to forgive your sins so that you start with a clean slate before Ramadaan. If you and some close relative of yours had a dispute, or a quarrel, or an argument, or maybe even a fight and some nasty words were traded. The two of you didn’t patch up your differences or clear the air and now the other person has a function, perhaps a wedding, and because you family they are forced to invite you, and because you family you obliged to go. A whole week before the event and you already got butterflies, but still you don`t pluck up the courage and ask for forgiveness.