Mohammed Hussain Acquah of Ahmadiya Mission National Preaching Secretary has said
during this blessed month of fasting, it is a time for worship, and Muslims fast not only to remind themselves of those who are less fortunate than them but to also get closer to Allah by acts of remembrance by His guidance.
speaking on Plan B FM’s family, relationship, and lifestyle show dubbed NYANSAPO FIE, hosted by Nana Asabea Asare, Hussien Acquah explained that Ramadan’s fast imposes a dawn-to-sunset abstinence from food, drink, sexual intercourse, and emission for its entire 29 or 30 days, as lunar months naturally fluctuate. It does so for all Muslims not constrained by illness, travel, or inability to endure the fast due to age, pregnancy, nursing, and hardships (who can pay something called the fidyah, a redemption fee, instead of fasting.
Those who deliberately violate its fast without cause must pay an expiation or atonement penalty called kaffârah.
Ramadan’s sustained fast does not aim to deliver hunger, thirst, and sensual deprivation to its faster.
Mulvi Abdul Kalam a senior minister also said that Ramadan seeks to furnish believers with moral agency. Specifically, our trial as human beings is to adjudge and “act” on our judgment for the time the Blessed One “the One who created death and life to test you” has assigned us to live in the world with the knowledge that death unknown comes for us “to reveal which of you is best in deeds”.
He further stated that, spiritually the Quran tells us the explicit virtue fasting Ramadan delivers to the believer is so that you may be ever God-fearing. This is absolute to the trust of moral success that has burdened man from the moment his foot slipped from Garden to Earth, as its appointed, capable steward. Becoming God-fearing is essential to our ultimate success.
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