THE PROPHET IS AMONG US Print
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QURANIC VERSES RELATED TO THE RAMADAN AND FASTING Print
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"(Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed number (Should be made up) from days later. For those who can do it (With hardship), is a ransom, the feeding of one that is indigent. But he that will give more, of his own free will,- it is better for him. And it is better for you that ye fast, if ye only knew" (Al-Baqara, 184).
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RAMADAN DICTIONARY Print
Fasting

Fasting which is one of the five pillars of Islam is the name given to the act of abstaining yourself from eating food, having a sexual intercourse and other deeds resulting in the breaking of fasting starting from the break of dawn to the sun set. Ramadan fasting is obligatory for all the adult Muslims except for those with acceptable disabilities that will prevent them from fasting. This is established in the Holy Quran, sunnah (practices of the Prophet) and ijma-i ummat (full alliance of the Islamic scholars).
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A COMMON FORM OF WORSHIP AMONG ALL RELIGIONS: FASTING Print
Omer Faruk Harman, PhD
Regardless of how far back we go in time or how far away we travel in space, the reality of religion has existed in every unit of time and space where man has lived. For the need to believe is one of man's basic characteristics and creating a value system and tying it to a source of faith is a psychological and social necessity for man.
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TRAINING THE SOUL BEGINNING FROM THE BODY Print
Ali Murat Daryal, PhD
The fasting person is a hungry person. The hungry person does not forget themselves, gravitating towards the external world and making it an object for themselves those with full stomachs do. On the contrary, they turn towards themselves and become their own object due to their hunger.
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SEYYID HUSSEIN NASR Print

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I think that the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) Web Portal Project will be very very helpful and successful as long as it emphasizes, in an authentic fashion, the most universal and spiritual teachings of the Prophet and especially the ethical norms and spiritual ethics by which He lived, taught and set an example.
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Interview with Al-Attas: Applying Sunnah to The Modern World Print
ImageProf. Mehmet Ipsirli talked to Naquib Al-Attas in Malaysia about the Asian journey of the Sayyids (descendants of the Prophet) starting from the early periods of Islam and the applicabillity of Sunnah (practices of the Prophet) in today's world.
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