Ramadan, also known as Ramzan, is the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar. Devout Muslims will dedicate the holy month for fasting, prayers and charity.
Going by the lunar calendar, Ramadan is expected to start on 18 June this year.
Ramadan 2015: Wishes, Messages, Greetings to be Shared on Muslim Holy Month of Fasting
Fasting is the most important part of the holy festival, during which observant Muslims fast for a month from sunrise to sunset, even refraining from swallowing their saliva.
Check out some fasting related quotes to be shared on this Holy month:
May Allah Subhanahu-wa-ta'ala help you in your struggles, and make fasting easier for you. Ameen" - Author Unknown
Fasting is a shield with which a servant protects himself from the fire." - Ahmad Saheeh
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat." - Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian writer)
In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more." - Tariq Ramadan
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness." - Tariq Ramadan
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them." - Tariq Ramadan
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment." - Tariq Ramadan
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us." - Tariq Ramadan
Ramadan is here, Here is Ramadan. Ramadan is coming, The time that is blessed. Ramadan is coming, The time we love best. The month in which the Qur'an was sent; A time of great blessing in which to repent. Fasting for Allah is a great Muslim deed; Controlling desires and Suppressing greed. " - Zeeshan G
Ramadan is the month to fast, pray, read Quran and do charity and in return receive rich rewards from Allah." - Anonymous
Check out some Verses from Holy Quran on fasting below:
"O you who believe, fasting is decreed upon you, as it was decreed upon those before you, so that you may be reverent." - [al-Baqarah, 2:183]
"And it is better for you that ye fast, if ye only knew." - [al-Baqarah, 2:184]
"You may eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinguishable to you from the dark thread at dawn. Then you shall maintain the fast until the night." [al-Baqarah, 2:187]
"O believers, fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you. So that you may become righteous." - [Surah al-Baqara Ayah 483]
