fasting

This Ramadan, make your workplace the scenario for Dawa, especially in the current tension-filled atmosphere of misunderstandings about Islam and Muslims. Here are some ideas that can help you share Ramadan with your boss and coworkers this year.

Fasting is an act of obedience to Allah's commands through the highest degree of commitment, sincerity and faithfulness to seek Allah's mercy, to atone for sins, errors, and mistakes and to avoid condemnation to Hell.

Ramadan is often accompanied by feasting. Food-binging on oily, sugary items in Ramadan is the norm in the Muslim communities. Read these tips for a healthier Ramadan. 

With barely a few weeks left, there's little time for us to prepare kids for Ramadan. How can you get kids in the Ramadan mode? Here are a couple of ideas to help make it special this year.

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.

Why to Muslims fast? Muslims fast in the month of Ramadan to develop God consciousness, self-control and willpower. They want to become closer to God through this act of worship (fasting).

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