Importance of Ramadan: Ramadan is a month of the Islamic lunar calendar, the ninth preferred by God, for in one of his nights revealed the Quran from the copy kept until the first heaven, the earth being illuminated with the Divine Light, and was called “The Night of Decree” located in the last third of Ramadan, so Muslims worship that night and watch and pray at length, according to what the Prophet said:
من قام ليلة القدر إيمانا واحتسابا غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه
“Those who ensure the Night of Decree by faith and love of God, be forgiven of past sins.”
And God says in the Qur’an:
شهر رمضان الذي أنزل فيه القرآن هدى للناس وبينات من الهدى والفرقان
“The month of Ramadan that the Quran was revealed to guide mankind.”
Not only was revealed by God the Holy Quran but all divine books. Prophet Muhammad said:
“The pages of Abraham were revealed on 1 Ramadan, 6th of Ramadan Torah and the Gospel the 13 th of the month.”
Thanks are evident in the month of Ramadan through the major events recorded in the history of Islam. About 17 of Ramadan, the year 2 AH, God gave victory to the Muslims, who number three hundred, under the command of the Prophet, defeated idolaters thousand fighters in the Battle of Badr. God gave the conquest of Mecca the Prophet on 22 Ramadan in the year 8. The Prophet came victorious in the city and destroyed the idols their hands while reciting the Quran. Having returned to Mecca after being monotheism stronghold of idolatry, the 1st old house was purified from the impurity of paganism.
The events occurred, culminating in the designation “month of victories.” And the Prophet said, referring to this blessed month:
إذا دخل رمضان فتحت أبواب الرحمة وغلقت أبواب جهنم وسلسلت الشياطين
“In opening the gates of heaven, of hell are closed and are caught in it the Prime Evils.”
Mandatory fasting
God instituted the fast of Ramadan, Muslims in the second year of the Hegira, with this fast one of the five pillars of Islam. Fasting is an ancient practice of purification and worship, and God says in the Qur’an:
يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون
“Oh you who believe! Os fasting is prescribed, as it was prescribed to those before you, so that the pious and the holy fear of God” (ALBAQARA, 183)
Fasting in Islam involves abstaining from eating, drinking, marital relations, etc., from before sunrise until sunset. It is not the sole purpose of fasting, worship, there are countless benefits in relation to the feelings and moods. Self-control and moral behavior, and the mutual relationship between members of human society are part of their benefits.
BENEFITS OF FASTING FOR HEALTH
The first treatment for the majority of diseases is the diet, as many of them are born in the stomach and digestive system.
And fasting month continuous correctly purifies the digestive system of toxins that accumulate. These residues, deteriorated, poison the body to produce disease.
The skilled in medicine, the age and this established that the fast rids the body of certain substances and excess fluid and invigorating blood circulation and oxygenation, renewing the blood, strengthens the nervous system, and other organic and psychological benefits extensive field would be other work that limited space prevents.
SOCIAL BENEFITS
Fasting emotions and feelings unites rich and poor in a single entity. Who eat sumptuously and then suffers the consequences of “good eating”, and never went hungry by necessity, can not understand the problems of hunger and experience to learn what he asks for help.
Fasting is a purifying and educational experience that every Muslim must practice to feel hunger and thirst, which brings them closer to understanding the suffering of millions of human beings who do not know what you will eat the next day.
The experience of fasting teaches man to be generous and supportive. God sets for each fasting a “sadaqa” or donation to be surrendered to the need to complete the month of Ramadan, the month of charity, forgiveness and multiple benefits. The Prophet said: “The best charity is the charity of Ramadan”
and one of the notable virtues of the Prophet, which is the best example of conduct, it was generosity, and was more generous in Ramadan. Recommended to believers who invited them for breakfast everyday fasters:
من فطر صائما كان له مثل أجره
“Whoever offers breakfast at a fasting, receive a reward.”
And the fast developing in the faithful a sense of mercy and accustomed to self-control, discipline and perseverance in adversity.
THE FAST AND THE MORAL
Fasting is an education of the spirit, and the Prophet referred to:
“من لم يدع قول الزور والعمل به فليس لله عز وجل حاجة أن يدع طعامه وشرابه”
“Whoever does not renounce the lies and disingenuous behavior, God does not care to stop eating and drinking.”
إذا أصبح أحدكم يوما صائما فلا يرفث ولا يجهل فإن امرؤ شاتمه أو قاتله فليقل إني صائم إني صائم
“The day of fasting should not be discussed and if someone offends rebukes and tell him: I am fasting.”
These two “hadith” explain the meaning of fasting, that turn from sin, away from the frivolous conversations, forgive those who offend, and deal with penance and worship of God and virtuous and pious acts are multiplied in Ramadan.
In short, fasting Ramadan is undertaking a spiritual journey to the realm of the Holy Quran, cultivating his teachings through his recitation and study, and guided by its light, and saturating their moral precepts, seeking harmony in that journey, peace and warmth of the soul, it also adopts the practice of introspection and self-analysis that removes the soul from ignorance and materialism and approaches the sublimity of the Holy Quran.
BENEFITS OF FASTING
God promised leniency for those who fast, through the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad.
من صام رمضان إيمانا واحتسابا غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه
“But to those who fast in Ramadan with faith and devotion will be forgiven their sins.”
And Allah says:
كل عمل بن آدم له إلا الصيام فإنه لي وأنا أجزي
“The actions of human beings belong to him, except fasting, which I belong and which reward him.”
The Prophet (P.S.C.É.) said about it:
“Ramadan is a month that in principle is mercy, its middle is forgiveness and its end is free from hell.”
إن في الجنة بابا يقال له الريان, يدخل منه الصائمون يوم القيامة, لا يدخل منه أحد غيرهم
“In Paradise there is a door called” Source “, by which they enter the fasters and no more.”
“If they knew all that is grace and blessings in the month of Ramadan, would like it to be a full year.”
ATONEMENT OF FAILURE OF FASTING
Whoever violates the fulfillment of fasting, intentionally and without good reason a day of Ramadan, commits a sin. Therefore, he must atone for his fault, for example by helping to release or freeing of a believer, or fasting two months after Ramadan by fasting every day, not without cause. Anyone who can not should feed sixty poor, but still be lost thank you very much. Said the Prophet:
من أفطر يوما من رمضان من غير رخصة ولا مرض لم يقض عنه صوم الدهر كله وإن صامه
“Whoever does not fast one day of Ramadan without good cause, you can not fast even though the rest of his life.”
This does not mean that God does not welcome the expiation of their believers, but it is understood that saying of the Prophet that Ramadan fasting has no equivalent.
WHOM DO NOT ALLOW FAST
The normal and healthy Muslim to fast from puberty, and he said:
“Three are excused: the mentally ill, until it heals, the sleeper until he wakes up and the child until puberty”
As for women not fast the day of the menstrual period and after delivery until the blood stops flowing. Then you must compensate for other days.
THE EXCEPTED:
a) The traveler: Among the features that allow you to shorten the sentences may be fast or not. Abu Sa’id said alJudri “In our expeditions with the Prophet, some
fasted, others in Ramadan. The fasting did not blame those who did not fast, he had the strength to fast he did, and who had not, he was right. ”
كنا نغزو مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في رمضان فمنا الصائم ومنا المفطر فلا يجد الصائم على المفطر ولا المفطر على الصائم
b) The patient: If you please, or if the doctor finds that fasting is not possible or desirable, the patient can not fast, according to what God says in the Quran:
ولا تلقوا بأيديكم إلى التهلكة
“Do not you cast to self-destruction” (ALBAQARA, 195).
After regaining health to fast the days not fasted in Ramadan. If the disease is keeping fast is chronic, compensated its non-fasting feeding a needy every day of fasting is not practiced, if you have means. Of which Allah says:
وعلى الذين يطيقونه فدية طعام مسكين
“Those who are unable to fast to feed a poor person.”
If I could not make up that way for economic reasons, is exempt from it.
c) The elderly: A Muslim man or woman who comes in old age at an age that has no strength to fast, is free and fast must make up for not giving some food to those in need. Ibn Abbas says:
“The old man was allowed to feed a needy person.”
d) The woman is pregnant or breastfeeding: If the believer is pregnant or breastfeeding may compensate for not fasting, fasting as many days when the situation permits, and in addition may feed as many days needed.
e) The distracted: He who forgets that he is fasting and eats or drinks something, noticing her distraction to refrain immediately, and will not lose his fast, according to the hadith of the Prophet, for then God gave him to eat or drinking.
من نسي وهو صائم فأكل أو شرب فليتم صومه فإنما أطعمه الله وسقاه
The fasting in Ramadan may, in the hours of fasting, rinse your mouth and nose with clean water, bathing, brushing teeth without toothpaste, and swallowing his saliva. Who stayed committed not ejaculate fast.
Suhoor (SNACK OF THE DAWN)
The Prophet recommended in the early hours of Ramadan, before the hours of fasting, take some snacks and drink. This snack is called “suhoor” and is a mercy.
تسحروا فإن في السحور بركة
Taraweeh E Itikaf
Muslims celebrate these statements following the evening prayer, or Salat al Isha. Lengthy sentences consisting of at least eight prostrations, or twelve, sixteen, or twenty, according to the practice of the Prophet, and pray before the witr. Of celebrating the Prophet sometimes alone, sometimes in congregation, but preferably only, indicating that its practice can be individual, not an imam, and are not mandatory. The Prophet (P.S.C.É.) said:
من قام رمضان إيمانا واحتسابا, غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه
“Who will pray devoutly Ramadan indulgence of sins.”
Remember, on the other hand, the physical benefits that involves prolonged prayer after breaking the fast.
The Prophet received, every night of Ramadan, the Archangel Gabriel, who explains the Qur’an. The last ten days was collected at the mosque in order to devote himself to worship and live the “Night of Decree” in total obedience to God.
Because he spends keeping watch in prayer and contemplation on the night of decree reached indulgence and divine grace, as taught by the Prophet (PSCE), and added:
تحروا ليلة القدر في الوتر, من العشر الأواخر من رمضان
“Seek the Night of Decree in the last ten odd days of Ramadan.”
The Itikaf: is that the believer is withdrawn to the mosque several days, even eating and sleeping in it, and without leaving it to the necessary, dedicated to the worship and submission to God.
WHEN RAMADAN STARTS
It confirms the start of Ramadan when the new moon appears, and his term when the next new moon appears in Shawal. If the moon was not visible by the presence of clouds, you must complete thirty days of the month of Ramadan and start Sha’aban, but if the moon was sighted in other Islamic countries other Islamic countries can build on that. The Muslim minorities in non-Islamic countries should be based on the appearance of the moon in Islamic countries because among them there are those who engage in observatories detect their appearance according to a doctrinaire and confirm legal standards.
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