Blessings of Ramadan

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better than a thousand months, and whoever is deprived of its blessings is truly deprived.^{^[1]}

In Bukhara, there once lived a Magian (a fire-worshipper). One day during Ramadan, he was walking with his son through a Muslim marketplace when the boy began eating in front of the people. Seeing this, the father became angry and scolded him harshly, saying: “Do you feel no shame eating in the Muslim marketplace during Ramadan?”

The boy replied, “Father, you also eat during Ramadan!”

The father said, “Yes, but I eat secretly inside my home, not in front of Muslims. I do not dishonour this blessed month.”

Sometime later, the man passed away, and someone saw him in a dream, walking peacefully in Paradise.

Astonished, the person asked, “You were a fire worshipper; how did you enter Paradise?”

He replied: “Indeed, I was a Magian. But when death approached, Allah granted me faith due to my action of honouring Ramadan, and he admitted me to Paradise.”^{^[2]}

Respect the Blessed Month of Ramadan!

Dear Islamic brothers! Did you see how, because of honouring Ramadan, Allah not only blessed a fire worshipper with the gift of faith, but also granted him the everlasting blessings of Paradise? This incident should serve as a lesson and warning, especially for the heedless Muslims who show no respect for this sacred month.

Along with not fasting, they then commit wrongdoings. They smoke cigarettes, or even drink water and eat food in public in front of fasting Muslims, showing

[1] Sunan al-Nasai: Hadith 2103

[2] Nuzhat al-Majalis, vol. 1, p. 217

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