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ISLAM AND RAMADAN Some internet sites for further information:
A guide to Islam
http://www.islam-guide.com/
A commercial site about Islam and Muslims in text, audio and video.
http://www.islamicity.com/
Learn about the way of Life called Islam. This site contains many links for you
to find information...
http://www.islamworld.net/
Multi-lingual free Islamic services, including the Quranic recitation, Hadith
and Feqh topics.
Islamic... http://www.al-islam.com/
Answering Islam, A Christian-Muslim Dialog and Apologetic
http://answering-islam.org/
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/
Women in Islam
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam
Ramadan for School Kids
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/Byrnes/ramadan.html
Ramadan, the Blessed Month
http://www.islam-mauritius.org/ramadan.htm
Ramadan in History
http://www.icna.org/tm/ramadan11.htm
Rules of Ramadan
http://www-lib.usc.edu/~jnawaz/ISLAM/PILLARS/FastFiqh.html
RAMADAN: Rules & Regulations
Fasting in the month of Ramadan is compulsory on every Muslim adult. The word
sawm (plural siyam) literally means 'to refrain', but as an Islamic term, it
means refraining from food, drinks and sexual activity from dawn to sunset.
Fasting is mandatory on every Muslim who is sane, adult, able and resident.
The following exemptions apply:
1.the insane;
2.children who are not adolescent yet;
3.the elderly and chronically ill for whom fasting is unreasonably strenuous;
such persons are required to feed at least one poor person every day in Ramadan
for which he or she has missed fasting.
4.pregnant women and nursing may postpone the fasting at a later time;
5.the ill and the travellers can also defer their fasting.
6.Women during the period of menstruation or of post childbirth confinement.
Fasting during these periods is forbidden and should be made up later, a day for
a day.
Duration of Sawm:
Fasting starts everyday in Ramadan at the break of dawn, which is also the
start of the Salatul Fajr time. Fasting ends at sunset or with the call of
Salatul Maghrib.
What does not break the fast:
1.If anyone forgets that he is fasting and eats or drinks, he should complete
his fast, for it is only Allah who has fed him and given him drink. (A Hadith
from Muslim).
2.Unintentional vomiting.
3.Swallowing things which are not possible to avoid, such as one's saliva,
street dust, smoke, etc.
4.Brushing the teeth.
5.Injection or intra-venous which is solely medical and not nutritional.
Breaking of fast under exceptional conditions:
Muslims are permitted to break the ordained fast of Ramadan when there is danger
to their health. In this situation a Muslim should make up his fast later at any
other time of the year.
Reference: "Every Day Fiqh" by Maulana Yusuf Islahi, translated by
Abdul Aziz Kamal.
COURTESY: Islamic Information & News Network (IINN) (Muslims@Psuvm.Bitnet)
Vol.4 No.43
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