What is Ramadan?

A lot of people these days wonder what Ramadan is. Well, stop wondering. It’s pretty simple… Ramadan is something that occurs once a year. It’s an Islamic holiday and it’s celebrated all over the world by all Muslims. No matter if they’re black, white or yellow, they celebrate it. Ramadan is also a month to get a blessing from Allah and to stop doing anything evil you’re up to.

Every single day of Ramadan, Muslims spend the daylight hours in a complete fast. Muslims do not eat or drink in any form under the daylight hours during Ramadan. They also have to keep away from some physical needs. To some people, Ramadan is the month of staying away from eating and drinking, but for some others, just like me, it’s a lot more. Ramadan is all about purifying your soul, refocusing your attention to Allah and practicing self-sacrifice. It sounds pretty hard, but it’s really not.

During the blessed month Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must be restrained from backbiting and gossip. The eyes must restrain themselves from looking at unlawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything that does not belong to it. The ears must refrain from listening to idle talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places. In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast. Ramadan is a time to practice self-restraint; a time to cleanse the body and soul from impurities and re-focus one’s self on the worship of God.

My first article about Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr.

In our world, we celebrate a lot of stuff. Sometimes, we just have parties for a really stupid reason - we just want to get drunk. That's how thing works today, we simply want to get drunk...

...but for some people, it's more than just getting drunk. Some people have reasons on why they celebrate what-they-celebrate. Let's take ordinary people as an example, when they get older, they have birthday parties. How about that? That's normal, and something that I could accept. But, there is another kind of celebration that I really love. Ramadan.

I'm not in the mood to explain what Ramadan really is, since I'm in a hurry, but here's a great article on what Ramadan really is: What is Ramadan? I tend to read it every year, since I have a bad memory.

Ramadan in a sentence or two: Ramadan is a holiday celebrated by muslims all over the world. They fast during that time, and when Ramadan is over, they have this gigantic party called Eid. Eid Al-fitr. That's something the muslims really look forward to every year. We get gifts, kisses, a lot of food, and hugs. Quality time. That's what I would like to call it.

One thing that most muslims worry about is when Ramadan actually is. Well, it's been calculated a few times now, and the answer can be found here: When is Ramadan?

When I'm writing this, we're in the middle of Ramadan. That means we should be looking forward to Eid Al-Fitr that occurs in about two weeks. Notice that I used the word "in about" in the sentence before this. That means that I'm not one hundred percent sure of when it will occur, but now I am. I've found the answer. It can be found over here: When is Eid Al-Fitr?

It's really hard founding the information I've written about above since not a lot of muslims speak english. Most of the muslims speak arabic. A language that is pretty easy to learn if you have a good teachar, just like I had when I was in high school. I also wrote an article about when I was learning arabic in high school, make sure you check it out: Learn arabic online.