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Ramaḍān

رَمَضَان

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Calculated dates. The day itself is confirmed by the sighting of the moon where you live.

Shown here: the start of Fajr and the start of Maghrib as calculated for your place, with no margin added. Where your masjid announces its own times, follow those.

From the Ramaḍān cards
04Suḥūr & ifṭār
The intention
Formed in the heart before Fajr, once for the whole month per M; nightly per Ḥ, S and Ḥb. Nothing is said aloud.
Suḥūr
Delay it until close to Fajr. Even a sip of water fulfils it — “in suḥūr there is blessing.”
Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ
Ifṭār
Hasten it at sunset with fresh dates, or dried, or water. Said after breaking:
ذَهَبَ الظَّمَأُ وَابْتَلَّتِ الْعُرُوقُ وَثَبَتَ الْأَجْرُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ
Dhahaba-ẓ-ẓama’u wabtallatil-‘urūqu wa thabatal-ajru in shā’Allāh
The thirst has gone, the veins are moistened, and the reward is assured, if Allah wills.
Abū Dāwūd · ḥasan. The widely quoted Allāhumma laka ṣumtu is weak — this is the established wording.
If provoked, say: innī ṣā’im — I am fasting. One who does not abandon false speech has given Allah no need of his hunger.
Bukhārī · ṣaḥīḥ
Scholarly review: pending

This text comes from the Sabīl print library. Its scholarly review is still in progress; every item will carry its reviewers’ names and the date once two scholars have signed it.

The thirty days

Mark the fast, the night prayer and the day’s portion of Qur’ān. A heavier line marks the odd nights of the last ten.

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From the Ramaḍān cards

The last ten nights

06The last ten
I‘tikāf
Seclusion in the masjid for worship. The Prophet ﷺ kept it every Ramaḍān, and twenty days in the year he died. Entered before sunset on the 20th, left at the ‘Īd.
Leave only for necessity — the washroom, or food if none is brought.
Ḥ and M require fasting alongside it; S and Ḥb do not.
A woman may observe it with her husband’s consent, in a partitioned space.
Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ
Laylat al-Qadr
Better than a thousand months. Sought in the odd nights of the last ten — the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th and 29th — and most often found on the 27th.
Q 97:3; Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ
اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي
Allāhumma innaka ‘afuwwun tuḥibbul-‘afwa fa‘fu ‘annī
O Allah, You are Pardoning and love to pardon, so pardon me.
Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah · ṣaḥīḥ — taught to ‘Ā’ishahـؓ when she asked what to say if she found it.
Scholarly review: pending

This text comes from the Sabīl print library. Its scholarly review is still in progress; every item will carry its reviewers’ names and the date once two scholars have signed it.

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