Welcoming Ramadan 2016 - Mufti Menk

Ismail ibn Musa Menk, also known as Mufti Menk, is an Islamic speaker and da'ee. He is the current Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe.

Born: Harare, Zimbabwe
Nationality: Zimbabwean
Alma mater: Islamic University of Madinah

"Welcoming Ramadan 2016" - Mufti Menk

As Muslims, both men and women, we are suppose to be preparing ourselves during the month of Ramadan, and we are suppose to know that Allah has kept this beautiful month for us.

Ramadan is a beautiful month that Allah has blessed us with every year.

Although we are not supposed to be eating in the month of Ramadan, we have lots of food stored in our fridge in the month of Ramadan.

The food that we have in the evenings tastes much better than the same food that we eat before or after the month of Ramadan.

The blessings of the month begin when we cited the moon or when the month was announced, automatically you feel the blessings of the month.

But none of us has the guarantee that we are going to witness the month, and so many of us have witness previous months of Ramadan in our lives and our lives have not change.

EDITORIAL
Imam Momodou Lamin Touray: Ramadan is a very important month among the other months, because it is in Ramadan that we have the night of Lailatulkhadri, (The revelation of the holy Qu'ran to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

Any person who happens to fast during the whole month of Ramadan then has fast the Lailatulkhari, and fasting it means all the sins, which that person might commit over the past years, shall be forgiven by Allah.

This was why the prophet told the Sahabas (apostles) that anyone who does a good thing which is not compulsory on him or her in Ramadan shall be rewarded, and if that thing the person does in Ramadan is compulsory, it shall be rewarded 70 times.

Any person who gives food, even as small as one orange, apple or a cup of tea to a person to break the fast with, will be rewarded just like the person who fasted, and any person who gives a cup of water to a person who is fasting to break his/her fast with, you will drink in kawsara.