Resources for Ramadhan

The Tarbiyat team is collecting materials on this page to supplement your Ramadan experience. Below, find books, commentary, presentations, sermons, references and more resources for a spiritually fit Ramadan. 2017 Ramadan begins Saturday, May 27, in the U.S.

The Basics of Ramadan

• Presentation: An Elementary Guide to Ramadan (pptx)

• Presentation: Ramadan for Kids (pptx)

• Prayers at the beginning and opening of the fast

• Blessed month of Ramadan: Summary of Friday Sermon, August 28th, 2009

• Excellence of fasting during Ramadan: Summary of Friday Sermon, September 21th, 2007

• Excellence of fasting during Ramadan: Summary of Friday Sermon, September 14th, 2007

• Fasting: Fourth Pillar of Islam

• Fasting – from An Elementary Study of Islam

• Ramadhan and its Blessings by Sheikh Mubarak Ahmad

• Video: Questions about Ramadhan on Faith Matters

• Religious History of Fasting by Zia H Shah

• Age of fasting : Hazrat Muslih Ma’ud (RA)

• References on Fidya

• Fiqh about traveling during Ramadan

On Laylatul Qadr and the last 10 days:

• Laylatul Qadr by Adam Walker

• Some references on I’tikaaf and Lailatul Qadr

• English rendering of an Urdu poem by Maulana Ataul Mujeeb Rashed, Imam of the London Mosque on the eve of the last ten days of the holy month of Ramadan 2003

• Laylatul Qadr – the Night of Destiny Summary of Friday Sermon, August 27th, 2010

• A comprehensive discourse on various prayers at the last day of Ramadhan: Summary of Friday Sermon, September 10th, 2010

On sighting the moon:

• Sighting of the New Moon (article) | Ramadhan and Moon Sighting (Video)

• Factors in the sighting of New Moon

Dars-ul-Quran

• Find Alislam’s Dars-ul-Quran archive here.

• Dars-ul-Quran and Ramadhan Concluding Prayers, lead by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, August 2011

• Dars-ul-Quran and Ramadhan Concluding Prayers, lead by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, September 2009

• Dars-ul-Quran and Ramadhan Concluding Prayers, lead by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, October 2008

• Dars-ul-Quran and Ramadhan Concluding Prayers, lead by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, November 2003

Goals for Ramadan

In 1937, the Ahmadi magazine Al Fazl published a list of 61 weaknesses to work on during Ramadan, written by Hadhrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra).

In his explanatory note, he wrote:

“This year, I again wish to exhort others to adopt that which I have been practicing myself during these past years, namely that during the holy month of Ramadhan members of the community should select one of their own personal weaknesses and make a firm resolution to God Almighty to get rid of it, so that when Ramadan ends, at least one personal weakness has been eliminated.”

Download: A List of Ramadan Resolutions (PDF)

For more Ramadan goal-setting resources, see our 30-Day Ramadan Workout from 2013.

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