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Muslim parents need to keep their kids' teachers informed and engaged regarding important Islamic practices and events. Here is a sample letter about Ramadan to your child's teacher.

The main purpose of fasting is described in the Quran as "so that you may attain Taqwa or God-consciousness." Fasting is thus yet another instrument for bringing us closer to our natural state, our state of Fitrah.

This is a video review of "Adam's World 9: Ramadan Mubarak", in which Adam learns about the fast of Ramadan Mubarak, as he tries himself to abstain, with great (and hilarious) difficulty from food and drink on the holy month's last day. 

It's not avoiding food or even the drink I'm worried about this Ramadan. Fasting from these, the core of what the Ramadan experience is about, is hard but Alhamdu lillah doable. What I'm really worried about is email and Facebook.

How does Ramadan impart new meaning and force to Fasting, what is the true meaning of Ramadan? Put simply: by prescribing for it the time of Ramadan. This may sound like making things too simplistic, or trivializing the important. But Ramadan is no trivial event. 

Ramdan Blessings is explained as Ramadan is characterized not just by its obligation on every Muslim to keep away from certain things which are allowed in other months, but also by the weight of blessings attached to every good deed performed in this month.

Reverend Robert Thompson, president of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions, has been fasting in Ramadan. Again. He started the practice last year, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.