Ramadan

Yes, taking medicines while fasting does break the fast because nothing is supposed to enter a muslims body till the fast is opened.

Yes,you can if you are capable.It is considered as sunnath.

Well really, nothing. Ramadan is determined by the phases of the moon. Meaning Ramadan usually comes I think a week or two days before the last. It moves up and keeps changing.

FASTING IN ISLAM:

There is enough medical literature to support the benefits of fasting but many seem to be not knowledgeable about the spiritual aspects from the Islamic point of view.

Prophet Muhammad said as follows" God does not want a person to a person to fast and forsake food, drink and sex if he ( she) does not give up lying and falsehood.

The reason give in the Quran for fasting is very simple, it says " SO THAT YOU MAY ACQUIRE TAQWA" The Arabic word Taqwa means a self correcting faculty within the human person.

It is there to warn you even before even you have actually gone off the course and help you come back if you happen to have strayed.

Of course ONLY IF YOU WANT, TAQWA is auxiliary and facultative, that is why the Quran says " SO THAT YOU MAY…..In Islam's scheme of autonomy and answerability, there is nothing automatic: NEITHER GOOD NOR EVIL; NEITHER REWARD NOR CONDEMNATION

The grace and mercy of God is there but ONE HAS TO STRIVE AND DESIRE.

Being hungry and abstaining from pleasure of sex is no pleasure in itself except when it is for the sake of GOD ALMIGHTY.

Other Islamic rituals are different from Islamic fasting.

People can show off going to Haj or paying charity but how can you show off suffering from hunger. It is easy to tell a lie that you fast but eat secretly.

Fasting helps to crystallize and heighten one's closeness to one's Creator. It is different from ascetic experience as in other religions. The denial (food and sex)is not an end itself.

The same food and the same sensual pleasure become permissible as soon as the sun goes below the horizon. Voluntary hunger and intensive disciplining produces a unique bringing together of feelings and attitudes and demolish all barriers of ego and inequality.

Dignity of a person enhances due to hunger. Fasting is meant to enable man to be closer to his Master and prepare him to take the challenges and responsibilities that face him beyond the cocoon of his ego.

Ideas borrowed from Ismail Faruqis writings

Yes, you can pray for Tahajud in Ramadan.

Anything that enters the human body while you are fasting breaks your fast.

Those, who are legible for fasting during Ramadan, are not allowed to eat, drink, smoke, or perform sex during the fasting period of day time from fajr (before first morning light) until sunset.

Yep, Muslims celebrate Ramadan. You got the spelling wrong though.

It depends on the moon sighting

Muslims don't celebrate Kwanzah. That's a Jewish holiday.

I never did. So, I think it is sunnah.

Fasting.

Ramadan is the ninth month in the Hijri calendar. This month, a special month for Muslims from the rest of the year Hijri. It is a month of fasting, Muslims abstain in his day for food and drink and sexual relations from dawn until sunset. The month of Ramadan a special place in the heritage and history of the Muslims; because they believe it started revelation and the first down of the Koran to Prophet Mohammed bin Abdullah was on the night of much of this month in 610 AD, where he was the Messenger of Allah in the cave of Hira when he came to King Gabriel, and said to him, "Read the name of your Lord who created" This was the first verse which was revealed the Qur'an, the Qur'an was revealed from the board saved much of the night one sentence, was located in the House of Glory in heaven on the night of Ramadan, and Jibreel used to come down by piecemeal commands and prohibitions The reasons, in twenty years.

according to Islam, people should not work Friday and according to Christianity and Judaism people should not work in Sunday.

many laws of countries are originally derived from religious laws.

Ramadan is not celebrated. Ramadan is the 9th month In The Islamic Lunar Calendar. Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan, because the Holy Quran Was Revealed To Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) During this month. Eid Al-Fitr which occurs after the month of Ramadan is the actual celebration.

It is called the month of Ramadan. It is the 9th month according to the Lunar Islamic Hijri Calendar.

Refer to related questions below for more information.

All Muslims must fast during the month of Ramadan, unless you're not Muslim you should be fasting.

Asalamu Alykum. Well, the Islamic calendar is lunar so the months shift from year to year when compared to the solar Gregorian calendar of the western world. However, this year it's apparently Muharram that begins in November. Muharram is the first month on the Islamic calendar. It is also the second most sacred month, with Ramadan being the most sacred.

The Gospel of Matthew shows that Jesus �fasted forty days and forty nights� (Matthew 4:21). The Gospel of Luke adds the detail that �in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered� (Luke 4:2). Jesus said, �If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed� (John 8:31). People had complained to Jesus saying, �Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?� (Luke 5:33). But Jesus replied that as long as he is with them his disciples should not fast, but after he is taken away then �they will fast in those days� (Luke 5:35). This is why Jesus also gave them instructions on how to fast for the sake of God (Matthew 6:16-18). If they were never to fast, such instructions would be pointless. The Bible shows that the disciples were fasting afterwards: �they had fasted and prayed� (Acts 13:3), and again they had �prayed with fasting� (Acts 14:23). The Bible mentions fasting as one of the observances of a minister of God (2 Corinthians 6:5), and �fastings often� as a proof of the worth of a disciple of Jesus. Luke 5:33 quoted above reveals that (a) fasting means abstinence from eating and drinking, and, (b) that although the disciples were not to fast until after Jesus was taken away, Jesus himself continued to fast,otherwise the complaint would have been against him also. It is clear that the Jewish Rabbis were fasting (Matthew 9:14, and Mark 2:18). And Jesus too was called a Rabbi (see John 1:38; 3:2; 6:25 and Matthew 23:8). So he too must have been fasting. The disciples were unable to drive out a demon from a boy, but Jesus drove it out. When the disciples asked how he did it, he said that this kind can be driven out only �by prayer and fasting� (Mark 9:29). This shows that because the disciples were not fasting they could not drive out the demon, and, that Jesus could drive it out because he was fasting. Some copyists attempted to change this verse by leaving out the words �and fasting�. This is how, for example, the Revised Standard Version reads. But this reading gives the passage an impossible meaning that Jesus�s disciples were not praying either. This is perhaps why the Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version restores the words �and fasting�. The New Testament From the Ancient Eastern Text also includes the words �and fasting� (Mark 9:29).

Ramadan (ninth month of the Islamic calendar) begins once the 8th month of the Islamic calendar is over. It coincides with the new moon which signals a new cycle and a new month.

The date fluctuates with the lunar cycle, beginning the day after a New Moon and progressing for 29 days. The observance month (ninth month of the Islamic calendar) can begin anywhere in the Gregorian calendar, in any season. But it is always 10 to 12 days (about 11 days) earlier in the year than Ramadan in the previous year.

Examples of beginning and ending dates:

2012 - July 20 to August 18

2013 - July 9 to August 7

2014 - June 29 to July 27

2015 - June 18 to July 16

2016 - June 6 to July 5

2017 - May 27 to June 24

not while you are fasting, but you can use a sewak- something that looks like a stick but it is not and comes in many types of flavors and you brush your teeth with it and it whitens your teeth. You just have to put it in water until it becomes soft and you brush your teeth with it. The Prophet p.b.u.h. used it.

yes it does but sometimes 29 days yes it does but sometimes 29 days