To make a dua to help you start fasting in Ramadan with determination and focus, you can say: "O Allah, grant me the strength and focus to fast during this blessed month of Ramadan. Help me stay committed and dedicated to this act of worship. Guide me to make the most of this opportunity to draw closer to You. Ameen."
Ash Wednesday--the start to Lent
Ramadan has been celebrated for thousands of years. It is a month of fasting where you may only eat before dawn and after the sun goes down.
In Islam, girls are typically encouraged to start fasting during the month of Ramadan once they reach puberty, which is usually around the age of 12 or 13.
The holy month of fasting called Ramadan commemorates the victory in the Battle of Badr, which was won in 624 AD, thusly it would place it around that area
You can start fasting but you must take bath as soon as you can.
Then the fasting is not done! It doesn't count like that! In order to make you're fasting count then you have to start fasting during Fajr time. End at Maghrib time. Few people don't know how to fast!... Happy Ramadan Sep 1 - 30 / 2008
Ramadan has been celebrated for thousands of years. It is a month of fasting where you may only eat before dawn and after the sun goes down.
The majority, yes. It depends what kind of Muslim one is. If you happen to be Sunni-Muslim, then chances are your family looks throughout the moon to know when it is time to start Fasting during Ramadan. If not, then no. The moon though is to be a New Moon. If there is a New Moon in August-November, then you are to start Ramadan on whichever the New Moon is presented on.
Yes, of course. However, during Ramadan fasting, Muslims (men and women) get their breakfast by sunset and are allowed to eat drink, and practice licit sex anytime after sunset and just before fajr (that defines the first sunlight of the starting daytime) when tjhey start the new fasting day.
The year you start puberty, However some scholars say its actually when your 13 years old.
To prepare for Ramadan, one should start fasting on Mondays and Thursdays, increase acts of worship, seek forgiveness, and make a plan for spiritual growth during the upcoming month.
Ramadan for the year of 2010 is said to start around August 11th.