ramadan fasting

Ramadan Fasting and Kidney Disease Ramadan is the ninth month of the lunar year and the only one mentioned by name in the Qur'an. It is also a holy month of worship, study of the Quran, prayer, and fasting. It occurs during the month in which the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Ramadan is intrinsically linked to the observance of the fourth of the five pillars of Islam, the practice of obligatory fasting (sawm, sometimes siyyam), before the Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) and his companions were forced to flee Makkah and settle in Madinah. Fasting is [...]