Ramadan Mubarak | Naming the Days

It was in the course of the month of Ramadan that the Qur’an, the holy guide of Islam, was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. One of many 5 pillars or key practices of this religion custom is to quick throughout this month from the time simply earlier than dawn till simply after sundown. Throughout the quick, whole abstinence is required from meals, drink (together with water), smoking or consumption of tobacco, sexual activity, and any type of negativity — backbiting, combating, cursing, arguing and comparable behaviors. Muslims rise earlier than daybreak for a breakfast, quick by the day, after which break the quick first with dates (which Muhammad ate) after which a light-weight meal with household and buddies.

That is additionally a time of intensified religious observe. Along with the 5 occasions a day prayer, an extended Tajweed prayer is claimed nightly, and generally prayer extends hours into the night time. Many Muslims additionally learn the Qur’an cowl to cowl throughout Ramadan. Doing good deeds and making charitable contributions are additionally really helpful.

To Identify This Month:

Web sites & Organizations

Discover articles in regards to the observance of the Ramadan and hearken to Tajweed recitations in streaming audio on the Ramadan Info Middle

E-Programs

The Essence of the Qur’an focuses on the holy guide of Islam. Shaikh Kabir Helminski and Islamic scholar Jeremy Henzell-Thomas supply 30 meditations from the Qur’an revealing the common religious rules at its coronary heart.

Magnificence and Knowledge within the Qur’an, created by Iman Jamal Rahman, presents timeless insights and practices gleaned from reflections on verses of the Qur’an revealing its knowledge and sweetness. The Qur’an verses shall be illuminated by the insights of Islamic sages like Rumi and Hafiz who spent a lifetime meditating on the inside meanings of the Qur’an, by sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and by educating tales..

Ebook Excerpts

It’s conventional to learn all the Qur’an throughout Ramadan.

Rituals & Ceremonies

In solidarity with Muslims across the globe, eat an odd variety of dates each night time simply after sundown to mark the top of the each day quick.

Poetry

Ponder this poem by the Sufi poet and religious grasp, Rumi:

There’s hidden sweetness within the abdomen’s vacancy.
We’re lutes, no extra, no much less. If the soundbox
is stuffed filled with something, no music.
If the mind and the stomach are burning clear
with fasting, each second a brand new track comes out
of the fireplace.
The fog clears, and new vitality makes you
run up the steps in entrance of you.
Be emptier and cry like reed devices cry.
Emptier, write secrets and techniques with the reed pen.
Once you’re filled with food and drinks, Devil sits
the place your spirit ought to, an unpleasant steel statue
rather than the Kaaba. Once you quick,
good habits collect like buddies who wish to assist.
Fasting is Solomon’s ring. Don’t give it
to some phantasm and lose your energy,
however even when you have, if you happen to’ve misplaced all will and management,
they arrive again whenever you quick, like troopers showing
out of the bottom, pennants flying above them.
A desk descends to your tents,
Jesus’s desk.
Count on to see it, whenever you quick, this desk
unfold with different meals, higher than the broth
of cabbages.
— Rumi