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Ramadan
28 essays
Pre Ramadan The Ten Goals of Ramadan: A Framework for a Month That Changes You Ramadan without a target becomes thirty days of the same routine on repeat. Ten concrete goals drawn from what the tradition names as the month's own priorities, and a way to pick the one or two your year actually needs. Pre Ramadan Shaʿbān Before Ramadan: A Practical Plan to Prepare Your Heart and Habits Shaʿbān is the one month the Prophet fasted almost in full, and the reason he gave was that he wanted his deeds raised up to Allah while he was fasting. Ten concrete habits — from qaḍāʾ fasts to an early zakāh payment — turn the same month into training for Ramadan rather than a countdown to it. Pre Ramadan The Promises of Ramadan: What This Month Actually Gives the One Who Seeks It Ramaḍān is usually described in generalities — a month of blessing, a chance to start over. The sources are more specific than that: named gates, a reward kept off the ordinary ledger, a single night weighed against a thousand months. Six of those specific promises, each traced to the page where it was recorded. Pre Ramadan A Ramadan Timetable That Holds: Building Days Around Prayer, Qur'an, and Restraint Most Ramadan resolutions quietly die by the second week because they were never written down anywhere. A practical way to build a daily timetable around the five prayers, a Qur'an target, dhikr, du'a and your closest relationships — and just as importantly, what to plan to cut out. Pre Ramadan The Gates Are Open: Why Ramadan's Arrival Deserves Celebration, Not Dread Ramadan is not a burden that lands on the calendar once a year — it is a season of mercy the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told us to welcome with joy. Here is why the gates opening should feel like good news. Pre Ramadan The Journey to Allah: Why Ramadan Is the Fastest Stretch of the Road Every life is already a journey toward Allah, walked well or walked carelessly, but never skipped. This reflection names the three obstacles on that road, the three things a traveler must carry, and why Ramadan is built to cover the distance faster than any other month. Pre Ramadan Six Ways Social Media Steals Your Ramadan: How to Take It Back Before It Starts Research on social media names the mental-health toll; scholars named the spiritual one centuries earlier. Six specific harms it does to the heart, and a concrete Ramadan plan to take your attention back before the month begins. Pre Ramadan Exempted, Not Excluded: What Ramadan Still Asks of a Menstruating Woman A menstruating woman is exempted from prayer and fasting in Ramadan, not from Allah. This piece separates what every school agrees on from the one question that genuinely divides them — reciting the Qur'an from memory — and names what stays open to her without dispute. Pre Ramadan Ramadan and Illness: The Fiqh of the Fast You Cannot Keep and the Worship You Still Can Illness does not cancel Ramadan's mercy — it activates a different part of it. What the Qur'an and two Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī narrations actually say about the fast you may be excused from, the reward that keeps recording itself anyway, and the prayer the Prophet himself made over the sick. Fasting· Part 1 of 4 Lawful at Night, Forbidden by Day: How Fasting Retrains the Appetites The Qur'an permits the same act at night that it withdraws by day, using one word for both rulings. A hadith aims that identical word at the tongue rather than the body, and another explains why: the fast was never really a rule about the stomach. Food is simply the appetite the day can check. Fasting· Part 2 of 4 Fasting Was Never About Hunger: The Purpose the Qur'an Names Fasting is the one act of worship whose purpose is named inside the verse that legislates it: "so that you may attain taqwā." A hadith in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī about false speech shows exactly what it looks like when the outward fast is kept in full and that purpose is missed anyway. Fasting· Part 3 of 4 A Month of Practising Restraint: Fasting as Training in Ṣabr A fast has one moving part: refusing something entirely lawful, on a schedule, until refusal itself becomes practised. What the Prophet's instruction for handling an insult while fasting reveals about why that particular drill was chosen, and what proves whether the training actually transferred. Fasting· Part 4 of 4 Two Meals That Teach Gratitude: The Blessing in Suḥūr and Ifṭār A sip of water at sunset and a few dates before dawn are unremarkable on any other day of the year. In Ramaḍān, the Sunnah names each of them — blessing on one, a counted joy on the other — and in naming them, teaches what gratitude for something ordinary actually looks like. Iman in Ramadan When Angels Draw Near: What Ramadan Asks of Your Soul Ramaḍān is described as the month angels descend "like no other" — and that claim has a specific shape: a fast that imitates their restraint, a night named for their arrival, and daily deeds that are said to draw their company. Here is what each of those claims actually rests on. Articles Deeds Are Judged by Their Endings: How to Leave Ramadan Well The last nights of Ramadan are not a wind-down. Five habits the early Muslims practiced as the month closed — fearing rejection, asking for acceptance, closing with istighfar, watching for pride, and paying sadaqat al-fitr before the takbir starts. Articles The Ledger That Outlives You: Charity and Service in Ramadan A hadith graded ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ by its own compiler on the reward for feeding someone else's fast, a report on the Prophet's generosity "more than the wind that brings rain," and the debt of ṣadaqah that sits closest to home — the relative who still resents you. Checked against the primary sources, page by page. Articles The Solitude He Never Skipped: What I'tikaf Asks of the Heart Before the first revelation ever reached him, the Messenger of Allah had already made a habit of disappearing to a cave outside Makkah. What that solitude became, after Prophethood, is a rite called iʿtikāf — and the record shows he kept it every single year, then doubled it the year he died. Articles The Night Better Than a Thousand Months: What the Last Ten Nights of Ramadan Are For A night the Qur'an calls better than a thousand months arrives every year, hidden inside ten nights we mostly spend on Eid shopping. Here is what the last ten nights of Ramadan are for, what Laylat al-Qadr's own surah tells us about it, and five things worth doing before dawn. Articles The Midpoint Reckoning: Why Ramadan Asks You to Take Stock of Your Soul Halfway through Ramadan, the fast holds but the heart drifts. A look at what Sūrat al-Ḥashr asks the believer to do about that, and four honest questions worth asking yourself before the month runs out. Articles Four Victories, One Condition: What Ramadan's Battles Still Teach Us Badr, the conquest of Makkah, the fall of Guadalete, and the stand at ʿAyn Jālūt all landed in Ramadan, centuries apart. They share one condition the Qur'an names directly — and it is not the one modern retellings usually reach for. Articles The Best of Those Who Fast: Why Ramadan Is Built Around Dhikr A man once asked the Prophet which fasters, which worshippers and which pilgrims earn the most reward, and got the same four-word answer every time. Ramadan's fast, prayer and charity are not separate disciplines — dhikr is the thread running through all three. Articles The Nearness Beneath the Asking: Why Ramadan Was Built for Du'a Ramadan does not simply make room for du'a — the fasting verses of the Qur'an, and four moments the hadith name by name, are built to produce it. A look at why Allah answers directly in Surat al-Baqarah, and where the sources say the answer is nearest. Articles Qiyam: The Prayer Ramadan's Nights Were Built Around Qiyam, tahajjud and tarawih all name the same act - standing in prayer after the household has gone quiet. Six sources, checked against the library, on what that hour is actually worth. Articles Ramadan Is a Family Project: Raising a Household That Loves the Qur'an A first Ramadan as newlyweds, a house full of small children, or a family circle after iftar — Ramadan asks something different of every household. Here is what marriage, parenting and family worship look like when Allah, not food, is the center of the month.
