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(ramadan.co.za) Nearly a billion and a half Muslims worldwide this week begin the annual holy month of Ramadan |
Salam...my name is Sya'aban. I am advising you that my neighbour Ramadhan will be visiting you soon with his wife Rezqi and two children Sahur and Iftaar. They will be accompanied by three grandchildren Rahmat, Barakat and Taubat, they will leave after thirty days by Eid airlines. Treasure them and you will be blessed. Ramadhan mubarak...may this coming Ramadhan bring lots of Nur in your life...
Nearly a billion and a half Muslims worldwide this week begin the annual holy month of Ramadan, a time of prayer and fasting that commemorates the divine revelation received by the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim Hijri calendar, during which the faithful abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex during daylight and, in the evening, eat small meals and visit friends and family.
It is a month of piety, alms-giving and fasting in order to instil the body and spirit with the rigours of abstinence, a time of worship and contemplation and to strengthen family and community ties.
Observing Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam, the others being the shahada or profession of faith, the obligation to pray five times a day, the giving of alms or zakat and going on pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj.
The onset of Ramadan, which is determined by observing the crescent moon or by astronomical calculations, can vary from country to country.