Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, My dear friends and students, Welcome to our long-lost friend: Ramadan. How we have missed the days of self-restraint and the nights of mercy and delight! After eleven months of sinning, we now have the opportunity to avail ourselves of a month of mercy and forgiveness. For those whose duas […]
Category: Fasting
Turn off that stove!
An eight-step Ramadan Plan for Sisters Thanks to sound vision for this wonderful reminder If you’re in charge of cooking in your household, and it’s usually women around the world who are, then you can feel like most of your Ramadan is spent over a hot stove instead of on a prayer mat. I was […]
Great Ramadan ideas for children.
In this blessed month of Ramadan I will try my best to use my time wisely. Even if I am little, I will try hard to fast at least some of the day & do other good things. 1. Sleep little – eat little …I will not try to let the day pass faster by sleeping […]
Why must we be generous on Ramadan?
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Realms; and Prayers and Peace of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon all his family and companions. Ibn Rajab, may Allah have mercy upon him, said in Lata’if Al-Ma‘arif, addressing the increasing generosity of The Prophet, […]
Sawm (Fasting the Month of Ramadhan)ز
The fourth pillar of Islam is fasting. Allah prescribes daily fasting for all able, adult Muslims during the whole of the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar calendar, beginning with the sighting of the new moon. Exempted from the fast are the very old and the insane. On the physical side, fasting […]
What is required of the one who is unable to fast due to old age or a prolonged illness.
Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala) has obligated the fast of Ramadhaan upon all able Muslims and for those who have an Islaamically valid reason and are later able to do so, then they must make up the fasts that they missed. There is another catergory to consider and they are those who are unable to fast […]
The rulings pertaining to making up the fast.
Whoever breaks his fast or is unable to fast during Ramadhaan due to an Islaamically permissible reason, then he is required to make up for this day; such as the one whose fast is nullified due to having had sexual intercourse or other than that. In that case, he is required to make up the […]
That which invalidates the fast.
It is obligatory for the Muslim to know of all that invalidates the fast so as to be aware of them. They include: 1) Sexual intercourse: Whenever the fasting person has sexual intercourse, his fast is invalidated. Subsequently, he is required to make up the fast for that day in which he had sexual intercourse […]
The beginning and ending of the daily fast.
Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala) says: 1) {It is made lawful for you to have sexual relations with your wives on the night of As-Sawm (the fasts). They are Libaas [i.e. body cover, or screen, or Sakan, (i.e. you enjoy the pleasure of living with her), for you and you are the same for them. Allaah […]
The obligation of the fast of Ramadhaan and it’s time.
It’s obligation is indicated in the Qur.aan, the Sunnah and al-ijmaa’ (major consensus), as follows: 1) {O you who believe! Observing the fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become al-Muttaqoon (the pious). (Observing (fasts)) for a fixed number of days, but if any of you is ill […]