good whether it is the fast during the day or Qiyam (standing for worship) during the night. To spend in this month has the status of spending in Jihad.

(Tanbih-ul-Ghafileen, pp. 177, Raqm 447)

This is a summary of the renowned commentator, a great thinker of the Ummah, Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan’s manuscript: Being happy and wishing happiness to each other upon the arrival of the blessed month of Ramadan is a Sunnah; we should be happy when this blessed month begins, and be sad when it leaves us. It is for this reason that the majority of Muslims feel sad and weep on Jumu’a-tul-Wada’ (the last Friday of Ramadan), some farewell words are recited and speeches are given, for Muslims to carry out maximum good deeds in the time that remains of this blessed month by considering it a great opportunity. (Mirat-ul-Manajih, vol. 3, pp. 137)

Therefore, O lovers of Ramadan, rejoice! اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, very soon the sacred month of Ramadan, with it mercies and forgiveness is arriving; it is a month in which the reward for Nafl acts of worship becomes equal to the Fard acts of worship and the reward for Fard acts of worship increases by 70 times more than the Fard acts of worship in other days. The fasting people enjoy great benefits and countless people are freed from Hell, therefore, you should rejoice and also wish happiness to other Muslims as well. Furthermore, free yourself from worldly affairs before the arrival of this blessed month, so that you can attain the blessings of Salahs, fasts, recitation of the Holy Quran, Taraweeh and the collective I’tikaf of the whole month or at least of the last ten days and can make the path to Paradise easy.

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Celebrations are also made upon the arrival of this blessed guest of mercies and blessings in the Sunnah-inspiring Madani environment of Dawat-e-Islami, a global non-political Masjid-filling movement of preaching the Quran and Sunnah. The blessed month of Ramadan is given a grand welcoming, and at many places, a large number of Islamic brothers start observing the whole-month I’tikaf in order to perform more good deeds in this blessed month, as arranged by Dawat-e-Islami. Furthermore, when this guest leaves, it is bidden farewell by weeping.