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Ramadan Mubarak.
What is Ramadan?
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Each month begins with a sighting of the moon's crescent and lasts 29 or 30 days until a sighting of the next month's crescent.
It is during this month that Muslims fast. It is called the Fast of, Ramadan and lasts the entire month.
It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset (from 03:30 of the morning by the timing of Saudi Arabia until the sun sets at 06:30 pm and the timing is changing according to location of any city in the world, by astronomical calculations). Fasting is intended to teach Muslims about patience, humility, and spirituality. And to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramadan, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds, and claim to peace prevail in the world, and renounce terrorism. As compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards about ten days each year depending on the moon.
According to Sharia, or Islamic law, all adult Muslims must fast during the holy month. Only the sick pregnant and nursing women, and travelers are exempt. Besides, all the Muslims practicing their daily lives as normal. This makes the fasting a worldwide phenomenon observed by the devoted among the world's. One billion Muslims as one international community.
The best acts of worship that Muslims do in Ramadan is reading of holy Quran and ponder its meaning.
Can read the Qur'an only in Arabic and learn its meanings in several languages via this link:
http://quran.ksu.edu.sa/m.php?l=en#aya=2_1
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