Tag: Ramadan
Exceling in Ramadan | Yaser Birjas
Sh. Yaser Birjas gives 10 tips for us to make this Ramadan the most beneficial one yet.
Maximizing Our Acts of the Salah—And The Heart’s States In Each Of Them | Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
WHEN YOU HEAR the athân, let that remind you of the horrors of the Summons to come on the Day of Resurrection. Spare no time in fully preparing yourself to respond. For those who hasten to answer this call are the ones…
How to Ask of Allah During Ramadan | Munira Al-Mawdi
AND IF MY servants ask thee about me—behold, I am near; I respond to the call of him who calls, whenever he calls unto Me: let them, then, respond unto Me, and believe in Me, so that they might follow the right…
Ramadan Offers an Excellent “Weight Control” Strategy | Ahmed Motiar
EVERY YEAR, MORE than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world observe Ramadan fast. For Muslims fasting is a religious obligation (Sûrat Al-Baqarah, 2:183), it being the fourth pillar of Islam. Yet fasting is also an excellent “weight control” strategy. The key point…
Your Child’s First Ramadan Fast | Sumayyah Meehan
THE HOLY MONTH of Ramadan is upon us. And for many families, this will be the first month of Fasting for some of its youngest members. Allah says in the Quran: O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as…
The Fast of the Prophet
THE NINTH MONTH on the Islamic calendar—twenty-nine or thirty days of community fasting (Ṣawm), from crescent to crescent, Ramadan—is, among other things, a celebration of Al-Ra ḥmân’s renewal of guidance to mankind. Our Ramadan and Its Associations with Revelation One of the great…
The Inward Requirements of Fasting | Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
PRAISE BE TO Allah who has thwarted the hopes of Satan and frustrated his designs by making fasting a bulwark and a shield for his righteous servants; who taught them that the way of Satan to their hearts lies in secret lust;…
Preparing for Ramadan with K.I.S.S. | Maryam Amirebrahimi
MANY OF US seek to find that spark of connection to Allah in Ramadan. But sometimes, even by the end of the holiest month of the year, we don’t feel that different. We wish our hearts were a little softer, our eyes…