On the 23rd of January 2023, the BBC reported on Japan’s lowering birth rate. The country is facing a national crisis with the Prime Minister reporting that the country is on the brink of not being able to function due to an increasing elderly population and lowering number of young people to work managing infrastructures.

The month of Rajab is a unique time period ringing in the blessed three months, igniting tafakkur (reflections) and tadabbur (contemplation) and resulting in enlightenment during the month of Ramadan and Laylat-ul Qadr. This is the phase of remembering, reviewing and accounting an entire year,

Praise be to Allah, who sent the Book to His servant and did not make it crooked, and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, who reached the trust and established the proof, and left us after him on the white proof. The best guidance is the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, and Allah is not worshiped in anything other than what He wants,

Since the dawn of Islam, the struggle between Iman and Kufr (belief and disbelief) has been at its most intense. In fact, the struggle between Haqq and Batil (truth and falsehood) has begun and intensified since Allah created Adam, taught him, commanded him, and forbade him. So, Allah’s command and prohibition was the truth, and everything that contradicted or turned away from it was falsehood.