So what have you learned this Ramadan that you want to carry on with you? What’s your strategy to stay focused? And “After Ramadan…How to Enhance Our Spiritual Growth” with SAFI KHAN
As someone who has never experienced a Ramadan outside of the US and Canada, my emotions were all over the place this year when I realized I would be spending my first Ramadan in a Muslim country.
The heart of the believer in its purity and clarity is likened to a lamp in transparent and jewel-like glass, and the Qur’an and shari’ah by which it is guided are likened to good, pure, shining oil in which there is no impurity or deviation.
This year, the Muslim Matters’ bloggers’ team – which is growing and truly reflecting the diversity in the Ummah – is presenting to you snapshots from Eid, as they see it. We have writers based in many countries so check out how they’re celebrating Eid!
Link to all Ramadan 2010 posts People are coming in large numbers to watch, they’re congregating in lines after lines. Standing on both sides of the road, they are cheering
It was the first Ramadan that she felt like she was finally in a good place, a place that felt wholesome and clean. It was the qiyam at the local masjid, the masjid that she recently discovered with her sisters…the place she wished had come into her life a few years earlier.
Muslim jurists differed over this issue and there are 4 different opinions. They will be examined in this article. Retreaded from last year.
Are Ramadans in Bosnia different than elsewhere in the Muslim world? Only as much as Muslims in Bosnia are different than the rest of their brethren, if we are talking about issues which really matter. The blessed month of Ramadan provides us with a prism through which any particular Muslim experience can be disassembled to allows us to remove from it that which is malignant, and reassemble it into a better, healthier structure. So lets turn the lights in Bosnia on and see what we get.
This year, Eid al-Fitr, the joyous Muslim holiday marking the end of the month of Ramadan falls around the ninth anniversary of the attacks on September 11th, 2001, which has left some Muslims fearing a possible backlash attached to celebrating this religious holiday which dates back more than 1400 years.
Like most Masajid, in the last 10 nights of Ramadan, the Imams stop praying witr after the Isha-associated tarawih, leaving it for Qiyaam. The qiyaam prayers (8 rakah) is followed by the witr with amazing dua qunoot usually. So, let the dua’ & recitation speak for themselves.
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