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IQNA: The Islamic Center of Hamburg, Germany, has published two special online magazine issues on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. Following requests by many readers of ‘Al-Fadschr’ and ‘Salamkinder’ magazines, the editors of the two quarterlies have published the Ramadan issues. Health, the importance of the holy …

Fasting is the closest and most effective way to reach perfection and spirituality. The Holy Quran mentions the benefit of fasting to attain piety; This piety is achieved by refraining from the longing for eating and drinking and lust. Fasting is one of the Furu’ Ad-Din (ancillaries) of the religion …

Muslims around the globe have started fasting the holy month of Ramadan, and it’s a well-known tradition for Muslims to break their fast with dates. It is actually recommended to break our fast with dates, as Prophet Mohammad (peace and blessings be upon him) used to do, as reported in Sunnah: : “Break …

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered at a sacred Jerusalem plaza for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan after coronavirus lockdowns kept the site off-limits last year. About 70,000 faithful, most of them Arab citizens of Israel, prayed at al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, said an …

IQNA: The Tokyo Mosque is ready for a bittersweet Ramadhan, a holy month for Muslims, this year with the measures taken against the coronavirus pandemic. “Still, we are at a better situation in online activities compared to last year,” Turkish official Muhammet Rasid Alas, social affairs consultant at the Turkish …

Every year the Month of Ramadhan comes and goes; every year we fast, yet without proper appreciation of the potentials of character building that the fasts hold for us. Once, on the last Friday of Sha’ban, the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) delivered a sermon about the significant of the Month …

Mohammad Ali Shomali The significance of fasting in Islam can be deduced from many verses of The Holy Qur’an. For example, the verses 2:45 reads: استعينوا بالصبر و الصلوه و انھا لکبيره ا علی الخاشعين And take recourse in patience and prayer, and it is indeed hard except for the …

It is the second Ramadan during the coronavirus pandemic. The Contact Body for Muslims and Government (CMO), which represents 380 mosques, has called on Muslims to celebrate Ramadan at home with the family and not to visit family and friends. The fasting starts around April 13 this year; Monday or …

This text explains the significance of the holy month of Ramadhan and its fasting. It analyses the events, rules, obligatory and recommended acts and supplications to be performed during this sacred month. The text concludes by encouraging Muslims to fast in it in order to seek Allah’s mercy and forgiveness. …

IQNA: Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic Center reaffirmed a Fatwa (religious edict) issued earlier that says injecting a coronavirus vaccine would not invalidate fasting during the holy Month of Ramadhan. The Electronic Fatwa Center of Al-Azhar in a statement on Tuesday said it is ok for Muslims to inject a coronavirus vaccine …