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Fatwa CenterHow to Receive the Month of Ramadan
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Would you please tell me how to receive the blessed month of Ramadan?
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All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
A Muslim should rejoice at the coming of the month of Ramadan and receive it with sincere repentance, being fully prepared to perform as much as possible of acts of worship, such as prayer, reciting the Quran, remembering and glorifying Allah, observing I‘tikaaf, (staying in seclusion in the Masjid for the purpose of worship), abandoning sins and disobedience, and giving back the rights of others, and so forth.
Sadly, many people receive the month of Ramadan by shopping different types of food and drink, and other such things. It was better for them to forego this in order to achieve the purpose of fasting, which is fearing Allah, The Almighty. Being moderate in eating and drinking is one of the greatest reasons to achieve consciousness of Allah, The Almighty. That is because decreasing one's consumption of food and drink narrows the passages of blood which Satan moves through to delude humans, as stated by the scholars.
Allah Knows best.
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