Ramadan

The month of Ramadan is a great month.Ramadan is the month the much-awaited by all Muslims because it is a month full of blessings. This is the month where Muslims fast.


DEFINITION OF FASTING:

Fasting means abstaining from  several things,  from just before the starting of dawn (i.e. just before the start of Fajr) until sunset, with the intention of fasting.
A Muslim fasting must abstain from the following

• Food and Drink
• Sexual intercourse

 If these  three things listed above are done deliberately a persons fast will be broken. 

 That's the definition of fasting, but below will tell you who must fast:

Allah has made fasting the month of Ramadan obligatory upon  every adult, sane, settled (i.e., not traveling) Muslim who is able to fast and has nothing such as hayd [menstruation] or nifaas [postnatal bleeding] to prevent him or her from doing so.


So, that's the intro for Ramadan and fast, maybe some of you are asking why Muslims fast, below are the answers:
 
The purpose of fasting is not to just get hungry and thirsty but it is to become pious. So one should stay away from  Un-Islamic things such as: 

• Getting angry
• Using bad language
• Back biting and gossip
• Arguing and fighting with Muslims
• Being rude and impolite
• Looking, touching, flirting with non-mehrems of the opposite sex
• Lying and cheating
• Engaging in riba (interest,usury)
• Women non wearing Hijab
• Men shaving beards and having cloths below ankles
• Allying with the enemies of Islam against the Muslims
• Promoting un-islamic ideologies such as democracy and socialism
• Basically staying away from anything that is Haram.

 But, there is also rewards, below are the rewards for fasting in Ramadan:


- On the Day of Judgment, "Fasting will say: O My Lord I prevented him from food and desires so accept my intercession for him." [Ahmad, al-Haakim and Abu Nu'aim, Hasan]
- Fasting is a means for one's sins to be forgiven. The Prophet (peace be upon him.) said: "He who fasts Ramadan, due to Iman and hoping for reward (from Allah) then his past sins are forgiven." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
- The supplication of the fasting person is answered:
 "There are in the month of Ramadan in every day and night those to whom Allah grants freedom from the Fire, and there is for every Muslim a supplication which he can make and will be granted." [al-Bazzaar, Ahmad, Saheeh].







 
 So, I wish all of you(Muslims) have a great Ramadan.