Lunar months last between 29 to 30 days depending on when the new moon is sighted. If the moon is not seen on the night of the 29th day , then Ramadan lasts for the full 30 days. The Eid al-Fitr celebration marks the end of the month when Muslims celebrate a successful Ramadan of fasting and worship. Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. There is also a verse in the Quran that prescribes fasting for all Muslims who are mature and healthy enough to do so for the full day. So Muslims fast as an act of worship, a chance to get closer to God, and a way to become more compassionate to those in need.
These countries will be on the lookout for the Eid moon that evening. If it is sighted, the first day of Eid al-Fitr will be observed on Sunday, May It is widely known that giving to those in need during this auspicious month brings countless reward and blessings.
In this day and age, it is so easy to forget that Allah SWT could have showered every living soul with riches and wealth, but there is a reason behind Him not doing so. Ramadan serves to remind us of the hunger and thirst that some people have no choice but to face every single day — deprivation of even the most basic essentials whilst we tend to overlook even the simplest of privileges we have, such as clean water for bathing. The characteristics adopted during the time of fasting are the qualities we should be portraying as Muslims in the first place.
The month is a core reminder as to how we are meant to be anyway, not for how we should be only during this month. The month reminds us of the purity we should be attaining and disciplining ourselves to exercise these acts to secure them for our day to day lives, accustoming ourselves to purifying our beliefs along with our bodies, minds and souls. Gaining closeness to Allah SWT and instilling fear of our Lord - it is incredibly important to remember who our Creator is, why we were put here and what our goals are in this material world; to remember that the world is merely just a stop-gap an incredibly short one in our journey to the Hereafter.
We should seek to attain taqwa and be as close to our Lord as possible. Connecting to our Lord is important to remember our purpose here in the first place, else we will find ourselves lost in this realm, which is what we are here to avoid. In the materialistic world that we live in, we often fail to realise how dependent we are upon Allah SWT. This is why we should practise retaining humility at all times; an act as simple as refraining from nourishment just proves how reliant we are on our Lord and His invention.
Ramadan is an evident reminder for us to remain humble and selfless and have empathy and compassion for others at all times. Ramadan, along with many other attributes of Islam, serves to remind us that we are all equal in this world, regardless of skin colour, race, religion, gender or status. In the end, we will all be going to the same place, in the same attire, taking nothing but our amaal with us and leaving all matter of worldly belongings behind.
That is when we shall truly witness that those who we helped in this world will contribute towards what we take with us in our Hereafter. Practising restraint and discipline is taught in many paths of life — even to the extent of sports. Practising the art of self-discipline allows you to attain separation from certain desires and allows you to constrain yourself and detach yourself from your needs to enable you to achieve true independence.
Without the additional complicated burdens and indulgent wants and needs of everyday life - status, material, money, stress, possessions - one can reach true contentment, freedom and above all, simplicity. Fasting contributes towards strengthening our focus and pointing us in the right direction to remember the purpose of our being and to restore that balance into our lives. Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. Moro T. J Transl Med ; Spindler S. In: Fahy G. Springer, Dordrecht.
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. The impact of religious fasting on human health. Nutrition Journal, ; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. Citedness in Scopus.
Article Tools Print this article. Indexing metadata. Islam preaches equality and Allah SWT made fasting during Ramadan to make the rich and the poor equal in terms of asking for forgiveness for their past sins.
Ramadan is a month when many prayers are listened to and answered. These are just a few reasons why Muslims fast during the blessed month of Ramadan. It defines them as followers of the Islamic faith and billions of Muslims around the world will continue in the tradition of fasting from sunrise to sunset.
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