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Ramdan
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- Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
- October 5th is the first
day of Ramadan,
- November 04th is the
last day of Ramadan,
- For more than a billion Muslims around the
world—including some 8 million in North America—Ramadan is
a "month of blessing" marked by prayer, fasting, and
charity.
- Ramadan is a religious Holiday like
Christmas or
Hanukkah.
- Unlike many other holidays, Ramadan retains its focus
on self-sacrifice and devotion to Allah (God).
- Muslims believe that during the month of Ramadan,
Allah revealed the first verses of the Qur'an, the holy
book of Islam.
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Fasting:
- Fasting is the third "pillar" or
religious obligation of Islam.
- Muslims fast for the
entire month of Ramadan.
- This means that they may eat or drink nothing,
including water, while the sun shines.
- Prophet
Muhammad (p.b.u.h) said, "There is a tax on everything,
the tax of the body being the fast."
- The Night of Power:
- It is the night that the
Holy Quran, was revealed from the Lord of the Universe to
Prophet Muhammad.
- It
became the Night of Power because of what was revealed in
the darkness.
- God describes this night
as better than a thousand months. During that night, the
angels and the Spirit descend therein, by God’s leave, to
carry out every command.
- It was reported that the
Prophet Muhammad said, “Seek it on the odd nights of the
last ten days of Ramadan.”
- Eid ul-Fitr
- Eid ul-Fitr commemorates
the end of the month of Ramadan.
- It is the celebrated at
the completion of Ramadan.
- Fasting is forbidden on
this day as it marks the end of the month-long fast of
Ramadan.
- Possibly Wednesday
October 25th is
the Eid ul-Fitr.
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