Ramadan - Al Jumuah Magazine

Got The Ramadan Blues? Work the BUGS Out Now!

“I am exhausted,” a friend told me. “The days are so long this Ramadan. I haven’t been able to keep up with my Quran goals because of work and I don’t know how to balance spending time with my in-laws, taking care…

The Obligation of Fasting during Ramadan and its Virtues

Taken from his Explanation of Riyad al-Salihin Allah says, Believers, fasting is prescribed upon you as it was prescribed upon those before you, so that you may be from amongst the righteous, for a fixed number of days. But if you are…

How to Return to the Qur’an | Part 1

Trans. by Ghada Khafagy THOUGH AN UNLETTERED nation, when the Arabs received the Noble Quran they did so with attentive hearts. Before memorizing it, they first implemented it in their lives and their conduct. This came as a direct and enthusiastic response…

Learning to Fast with Optimal Benefit

FASTING (Arabic ṣawm) has been used, in various forms, as a spiritual practice for thousands of years at least. It has been trod as a pathway to God through the ages; abstention from food and drink is woven into the fabric of…

Maximizing Our Acts of the Salah—And The Heart’s States In Each Of Them

WHEN YOU HEAR the athân, let that remind you of the horrors of the Summons to come on the Day of Resurrection. Spare no time in fully preparing yourself to respond. For those who hasten to answer this call are the ones…

The Fast of the Prophet

THE NINTH MONTH on the Islamic calendar—twenty-nine or thirty days of community fasting (Ṣawm), from crescent to crescent, Ramadan—is, among other things, a celebration of Al-Ra ḥmân’s renewal of guidance to mankind. Our Ramadan and Its Associations with Revelation One of the great…

How to Ask of Allah During Ramadan

AND IF MY servants ask thee about me—behold, I am near; I respond to the call of him who calls, whenever he calls unto Me: let them, then, respond unto Me, and believe in Me, so that they might follow the right…

Fasting Excellent Weight Control Strategy

Ramadan Offers an Excellent “Weight Control” Strategy | Ahmed Motiar

EVERY YEAR, MORE than 1.5 billion Muslims around the world observe Ramadan fast. For Muslims fasting is a religious obligation (Sûrat Al-Baqarah, 2:183), it being the fourth pillar of Islam. Yet fasting is also an excellent “weight control” strategy. The key point…

Your Child’s First Ramadan Fast | Sumayyah Meehan

THE HOLY MONTH of Ramadan is upon us. And for many families, this will be the first month of Fasting for some of its youngest members. Allah says in the Quran: O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as…

The Inward Requirements of Fasting | Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

PRAISE BE TO Allah who has thwarted the hopes of Satan and frustrated his designs by making fasting a bulwark and a shield for his righteous servants; who taught them that the way of Satan to their hearts lies in secret lust;…