رمضان .. شهر العبادة والروحانية يستقبله المسلمون بالفرح والسرور .. ينتظره المسلمون كل عام بفارغ الصبر .. فقد اختصه الله سبحانه وتعالى دون غيره من الشهور بفريضة عظيمة الأجر والثواب ألا وهي الصيام .. وهي عبادة روحية تزكي النفس وتطهرها .. والصيام جُنة وهو صحة للروح والجسد وأثناء الصيام يترفع المسلم عن الدنايا ويقف أمام ربه طائعاً صائماً متيقناً للمثوبة، قال تعالى: (فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ) البقرة:185، وقوله صلى الله عليه وسلم: (صوموا لرؤيته وأفطروا لرؤيته، فإن غم عليكم فأكملوا عدة شعبان ثلاثين يوماً).
حدثنا عبد الله بن مسلمة، عن مالك، عن أبي الزناد، عن الأعرج، عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه: أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: ( الصيام جنة، فلا يرفث ولا يجهل، وإن امرؤ قاتله أو شاتمه، فليقل إني صائم - مرتين - والذي نفسي بيده لخلوف فم الصائم أطيب عند الله تعالى من ريح المسك، يترك طعامه وشرابه وشهوته من أجلي، الصيام لي وأنا أجزي به، والحسنة بعشر أمثاله ا). رواهـ البخاري.

رمضان ... الحديث عنه يطول .. هو الشهر الكريم .. الذي فيه فرصة كبيرة وهي العتق من النيران وبدء صفحة جديدة مع الله
فيه ليلة تعدل 83 سنة )الف شهر)و هي ليلة القدر
في هذة الليلة تتنزل الملاءكة ..
وهذه فرص يعرضها الله علينا حتى نتخلص من ذنوبنا .. وكذلك رمضان يفيد الصحة كما اصبتت الدراسات .. وقبلها قال الرسول عليه السلام (صوموا تصحوا) ..

شهر العبادة و التوبة ..... تغلق فيه ابواب جهنم و تفتح فيه ابواب الجنة و المغفرة و الرحمة

اول شي شكراااا على سؤالك الرائع

بصراحة رمضان هو شهر الرحمة والمغفرة تغلق ابواب جهنم وتفتح ابواب الجنة وشهر رمضان هو الذي انزل فيه القران

رمضان شهر البركات و هو الشهر الذي أبتدأ فيه نزول القران الكريم وفية ليلةُ القدر التي هي خيراً من ألف شهر تتنزل فيه الملائكة بأذن ربها و تصفد الشياطين و هو شهر الصيام والقيام والخير كله وهو شهر الرحمة ومغفرة و عتق من النيران وهو شهر أختبار العزائم
اللهم أعد علينا رمضان أعواماً عديدة وأزمنةً مديدة و أغفر لنا فية ولا تطردنا ولا تغلق علينا في أبواب رحمتك و بلغنا فيه ليلة القدر

هو شهر الخير و اليمن و البركات كما انه من اكرم الاشهر يكفى انه يحوى ليلة القدر التى انزل فيها القران وبعيدا عن النواحى الدينية فهو ضيف يطول انتظاره حيث تتلاقى الاقارب و تكثر الزينات و تكسو البهجة قلوب و اوجه الناس

شهر رمضان شهر العباده شهر يقوي العبد صلته وتقربه بالله سبحانه وتعالى شهر بنعرف قديش احنا المسلمين متماسكين مفضلين عن غيرنا شهر بقرب احبتنا بصراحه لا اجد الكلمات ل اعبر عن هدا الشهر الفضيل فقط اتمنى ان تشتغله لانه الله سبحانه وتعالى غفور رحيم يجيب الدعاء في الشهر الفضيل ولا يدري الانسان ماذا يكسب غد لذلك كلنا نخطى فلندعو الله ان يغفر لنا ذنوبنا ويرحمنا برحمته

بســـم الله الرحمـــــــن الرحيـــــــــــم
شهر رمضان الذي أنزل فيه القرآن هدى للناس و بينات من الهدى و الفرقان
انه شهر عظيم تكثر فيه الخيرات و تطرح فيه البركات كما تفتح فيه أبواب الجنه و تغلق أبواب النار و تسفد وتسجن فيه الشياطين
و في هذا الشهر ليلة عظيمة الشأن حيث أنزل فيها القرآن على رسول الله صلى الله غليه و سلم ألا و هي ليلة القدر خير ن ألف شهر تتنزل الملائكة و الروح اي سيدنا جبريل عليه السلام فيها .
أما عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم قال "صوموا تصحوا"وهذه فائدة من فوائد الصوم كما ان عشرة أيام الأوائل منه رحمة وعشرة الأواسط مغفرة وعشرة الأواخر عتق من النار
كما جاء في الحديث القدسي "كل عمل بنى آدم لبني آدم الا الصوم فهو لي و أنا أجزي به"و هناك الكثير من الأحاديث في باب رمضان و الصوم.
و أخيرا تقبل الله صيام و قيام الجميع بالمزيد من الأجر و التواب

I think it is a celebration month. Your question is in English, would have liked to see about it in English too, as I don't know anything about it. Anyway, congratulations and have a nice Ramadam!

Prophet's Sermon on the Month of Ramadan

“O people! The Month of Allah the High has come with blessings, mercy and forgiveness. To Allah, this month is the best month. Its days are the best days. Its nights the best of all nights. Its hours the best of all hours.
And this is the month which you have been invited to be the guests of Allah and you have become the graced ones by Allah.
Your souls sleep in it is worship.
Your deeds in it are accepted. Your prayers in it are answered. So ask your Lord with truthful intentions and pure hearts that He would grant you success in fasting and reading His Book. For that the unfortunate is the one who forbids Allah’s forgiveness in this great month.
With your hunger and thirst remember the hunger and thirst of the Day of Judgment
Give to your poor and needy. Respect the elder. Have mercy on the younger.
Be nice and keep in touch with your relatives. Protect your tongues.
Cast down from what is not Halal for your sights to see, and what is not halal for your ears to hear.

Be compassionate and caring for the orphans of other people, so that your orphans would be taken care of and receive compassion.
Repent from your sins.
Raise your hands towards Him in dua during the hours of prayers , those hours are the best hours and Allah looks at His servants with mercy, answers their dua if they ask Him.
O people! Your souls are hostages by your deeds. So let yourselves free by asking Allah’s forgiveness. Your backs are heavy with loads, so make it light by prolonging your Sajdas. And know that Allah - Jalla Zikruh - has vowed to His Dignity that He would not punish those who pray and those who make Sajda.
And he would not worry them with Fire on the Day which people rise to the Lord of the Universe.
O people! Whoever feeds fasting believer during this month, to Allah, it is as if he has freed a slave. And his past sins are forgiven.”

Then he continued “...whoever does one Fareedha (“religious deed”) during this month, it is as if he has accomplished doing 70 good deeds in other months. Whoever increases sending blessings on me, Allah will make his rewards heavy on the day which people’s rewards are light. Whoever recites one Ayah of Qur’an will receive the reward of finishing the whole Qur’an in other months.

O people! The doors of Heaven in this month is open, so ask your Lord not to close it on you.

The doors of Hell are closed, so ask your Lord not to open it for you.

The devils are in chains, so ask your Lord that they do not rule you”

Fasting took another form in the West: the hunger strike, a form of fasting, which in modern times has become a political weapon after being popularized by Mohandas Gandhi, leader of the struggle for India’s freedom, who undertook fasts to compel his followers to obey his precept of nonviolence.
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Fasting is not unique to the Muslims. It has been practiced for centuries in connection with religious ceremonies by Christians, Jews, Confucianists, Hindus, Taoists, and Jains. God mentions this fact in the Quran:


“O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may develop God-consciousness.” (Quran 2:183)

Some Native American societies fasted to avert catastrophe or to serve as penance for sin. Native North Americans held tribal fasts to avert threatening disasters. The Native Americans of Mexico and the Incas of Peru observed penitential fasts to appease their gods. Past nations of the Old World, such as the Assyrians and the Babylonians, observed fasting as a form of penance. Jews observe fasting as a form of penitence and purification annually on the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. On this day neither food nor drink is permitted.

Early Christians associated fasting with penitence and purification. During the first two centuries of its existence, the Christian church established fasting as a voluntary preparation for receiving the sacraments of Holy Communion and baptism and for the ordination of priests. Later, these fasts were made obligatory, as others days were subsequently added. In the 6th century, the Lenten fast was expanded to 40 days, on each of which only one meal was permitted. After the Reformation, fasting was retained by most Protestant churches and was made optional in some cases. Stricter Protestants, however, condemned not only the festivals of the church, but its traditional fasts as well.

In the Roman Catholic Church, fasting may involve partial abstinence from food and drink or total abstinence. The Roman Catholic days of fasting are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. In the United States, fasting is observed mostly by Episcopalians and Lutherans among Protestants, by Orthodox and Conservative Jews, and by Roman Catholics.

Islam is the only religion that has retained the outward and spiritual dimensions of fasting throughout centuries. Selfish motives and desires of the base self alienate a man from his Creator. The most unruly human emotions are pride, avarice, gluttony, lust, envy, and anger. These emotions by their nature are not easy to control, thus a person must strive hard to discipline them. Muslims fast to purify their soul, it puts a bridle on the most uncontrolled, savage human emotions. People have gone to two extremes with regard to them. Some let these emotions steer their life which lead to barbarism among the ancients, and crass materialism of consumer cultures in modern times. Others tried to deprive themselves completely of these human traits, which in turn led to monasticism.
The fourth Pillar of Islam, the Fast of Ramadan, occurs once each year during the 9th lunar month, the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar in which:
“…the Quran was sent down as a guidance for the people.” (Quran 2:185)
God in His infinite mercy has exempt the ill, travelers, and others who are unable from fasting Ramadan.
Fasting helps Muslims develop self-control, gain a better understanding of God’s gifts and greater compassion towards the deprived. Fasting in Islam involves abstaining from all bodily pleasures between dawn and sunset. Not only is food forbidden, but also any sexual activity. All things which are regarded as prohibited is even more so in this month, due to its sacredness.. Each and every moment during the fast, a person suppresses their passions and desires in loving obedience to God. This consciousness of duty and the spirit of patience helps in strengthening our faith. Fasting helps a person gain self-control. A person who abstains from permissible things like food and drink is likely to feel conscious of his sins.

A heightened sense of spirituality helps break the habits of lying, staring with lust at the opposite sex, gossiping, and wasting time. Staying hungry and thirsty for just a day’s portion makes one feel the misery of the 800 million who go hungry or the one in ten households in the US, for example, that are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger. After all, why would anyone care about starvation if one has never felt its pangs oneself? One can see why Ramadan is also a month of charity and giving.

At dusk, the fast is broken with a light meal popularly referred to as iftaar. Families and friends share a special late evening meal together, often including special foods and sweets served only at this time of the year. Many go to the mosque for the evening prayer, followed by special prayers recited only during Ramadan. Some will recite the entire Quran as a special act of piety, and public recitations of the Quran can be heard throughout the evening. Families rise before sunrise to take their first meal of the day, which sustains them until sunset. Near the end of Ramadan Muslims commemorate the “Night of Power” when the Quran was revealed. The month of Ramadan ends with one of the two major Islamic celebrations, the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast, called Eid al-Fitr. On this day, Muslims joyfully celebrate the completion of Ramadan and customarily distribute gifts to children. Muslims are also obliged to help the poor join in the spirit of relaxation and enjoyment by distributing zakat-ul-fitr, a special and obligatory act of charity in the form of staple foodstuff, in order that all may enjoy the general euphoria of the day.