Ramadan

Ramaḍān is a month of sacrifice, discipline and taqwá.

One of the spiritual benefits of a proper fast is that it creates a higher level of consciousness and awareness of Allāh.

Ramaḍān is the last of times to argue or raise our voices.

Fasting makes a person conscious of Allāh. When a person is conscious of Allāh, he will be cautious of Allāh. This is Taqwá.

The purpose of fasting is to create Taqwá. The route to Taqwá is purity of speech.

A true fast is also of the heart and mind: to observed a true fast you do not entertain any thoughts or feelings which are harām.

It is easy to abstain from food but avoiding a slip of the tongue is difficult. Ramaḍān is a good time to practice silence.

For eleven months of the year we starve the rūḥ and lavish all our attention on the external carriage (our physical body).

Ramaḍān is a month of training, to allow us to refrain from harām and all harmful things including vulgar speech.

The hours, days and nights of Ramaḍān are sacred and one should be mindful of their sanctity just as one is mindful of the sanctity of the Haram.

Our fast should be of quality. Avoid all forms of harām – abstain from harām speech, conversation, thoughts, and sight.

Fasting is not difficult. All it takes is for a person to switch on mentally and it can be done. It is within our capability.

May Allāh make this Ramaḍān Mubarak for all of us, adorn our tongues with Qurʾānic recitation, and accept our deeds and supplication. Āmīn.

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Ramadan Day 30: The five prayers, Friday to Friday, and Ramadan to Ramadan are all expiators of what’s in between them if one avoids major sins (Muslim).

Ramadan Day 29: Oh Allah! Cause the crescent to dawn upon us with blessing and iman and with safety and Islam. (Oh Crescent) My Lord and Your Lord is Allah!

Ramadan Day 28: ‘There are many who purify their clothes yet pollute their faith!’ – The companion Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah (رضى الله عنه). 

Ramadan Day 27: We can get obsessed with halal and haram but we forget about the essence of worship, the core spirituality.

Ramadan Day 26: In Ramadan the nafs is grinded, pressured, burdened and weaned off its desires.