Some aspects are obligatory (Wajib) and others
are recommended (Mustahab).


1. We should make sure that we eat and drink
something at suhur, and that we delay it until
just before the adhaan of Fajr.
The Prophet (saws) said: “Have suhoor, for in
suhoor there is blessing (barakah).”
[Sahih Bukhari]
The Prophet (saws) said: “Suhoor is blessed food,
and it involves being different from the people of
the Book. What a good suhoor, for the believer is
dates.”
[Abu Da’ud]

2. Not delaying Iftaar.
The Prophet (saws) said: “The people will be fine
so long as they do not delay Iftaar.”
[Sahih Bukhari]

3. Breaking ones fast in the manner of the
prophet (saws).
Narrated by Anas (r):
“The Prophet (saws) used to break his fast with
fresh dates before praying; if fresh dates were not
available, he would eat (dried) dates; if dried dates
were not available, he would have a few sips of
water.”
[At Tirmidhi]
If a fasting person cannot find anything with
which to break his fast, he should have the
intention in his heart to break his fast, and he
should not suck his finger, as some of the
common people do.

4. After Iftaar, reciting the words that the prophet
(saws) recited.
Narrated by Ibn ‘Umar (r), according to which the
Prophet (saws), when he broke his fast, would say:
“Dhahabaz zama wabtallatil urooq, wathabatal ajru
inshaAllah” (The thirst is gone and the veins are
quenched, and reward is confirmed, if Allah wills).
[Abu Da’ud]

5. Keeping away from sin.
The Prophet (saws) said: “When any of you is
fasting, let him not commit sin…”
[Sahih Bukhari]
The Prophet (saws) said: “Whoever does not stop
speaking falsehood and acting in accordance with
it, Allah has no need of him giving up his food and
drink.”
[Sahih Bukhari]

6. The person who is fasting should avoid all
kinds of Haram actions, such as backbiting,
obscenity and lies; otherwise his reward may all
be lost.
The Prophet (saws) said: “It may be that a fasting
person gets nothing from his fast except hunger.”
[Ibn Majah]

7. Among the things that can destroy ones
Hasanat (good deeds) and bring Sayi’at (bad
deeds) is allowing oneself to be distracted by
quiz-shows, soap operas, movies and sports
matches, idle gatherings, hanging about in the
streets with evil people and time-wasters, driving
around for no purpose, and crowding the streets
and sidewalks, so that the months of Tahajjud,
Dhikr and worship, for many people, becomes the
month of sleeping in the day so as to avoid
feeling hungry, thus missing their prayers and
the opportunity to pray them in congregation,
then spending their nights in entertainment and
indulging their desires.
Some people even greet the month with feelings
of annoyance, thinking only of the pleasures they
will miss out on. In Ramadaan, some people
travel to kaafir lands to enjoy a holiday! Even the
mosques are not free from such evils as the
appearance of women wearing makeup and
perfume, and even the Sacred House of Allah
(swt) is not free of these ills.
Some people make the month a season for
begging, even though they are not in need. Some
of them entertain themselves with dangerous
fireworks and the like, and some of them waste
their time in the markets, wandering around the
shops, or sewing and following fashions. Some
of them put new products and new styles in their
stores during the last ten days of the month, to
keep people away from earning rewards and
Hasanat.

8. Not allowing oneself to be provoked.
The Prophet (saws) said: “If someone fights him or
insults him, he should say, ‘I am fasting, I am
fasting.’”
[Sahih Bukhari]
One reason for this is to remind himself, and
another reason is to remind his adversary. But
anyone who looks at the conduct of many of
those who fast will see something quite different.
It is essential to exercise self-control and be
calm, but we see the opposite among crazy
drivers who speed up when they hear the adhaan
for Maghrib!

9. Not eating too much.
The Prophet (saws) said: “The son of Adam fills no
worse vessel than his stomach.”
[At Tirmidhi]
The wise person wants to eat to live, not live to
eat. The best type of food is that which is there
to be used, not that which is there to be served.
But people indulge in making all kinds of food
(during Ramadaan) and treating food preparation
as a virtual art form, so that housewives and
servants spend all their time on making food,
and this keeps them away from worship, and
people spend far more on food during Ramadaan
than they do ordinarily. Thus the month becomes
the month of indigestion, fatness and gastric
illness, where people eat like gluttons and drink
like thirsty camels, and when they get up to pray
Taraweeh, they do so reluctantly, and some of
them leave after the first two rak’ahs!
Some may even relate this issue as “we cook all
day and we eat all night”.

10. Being generous by sharing knowledge, giving
money, using ones position of authority or
physical strength to help others, and having a
good attitude.

Ibn ‘Abbaas (r) said: “The Messenger of Allah
(saws) was the most generous of people [in doing
good], and he was most generous of all in
Ramadaan when Jibreel (as) met with him, and he
used to meet him every night in Ramadaan and
teach him the Qur’an. The Messenger of Allah
(saws) was more generous in doing good than a
blowing wind.”
[Sahih Bukhari]
How can people exchange generosity for
stinginess and action for laziness, to the extent
that they do not do their work properly and do
not treat one another properly, and they use
fasting as an excuse for all this!?
Combining fasting with feeding the poor is one of
the means of reaching Paradise.
The Prophet (saws) said: “In Paradise there are
rooms whose outside can be seen from the inside
and the inside can be seen from the outside. Allah
has prepared them for those who feed the poor,
who are gentle in speech, who fast regularly and
who pray at night when people are asleep.”
[Ahmad]
The Prophet (saws) said: “Whoever gives food to a
fasting person with which to break his fast, will
have a reward equal to his, without it detracting in
the slightest from the reward of the fasting
person.”
[At Tirmidhi]
Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (r) said: “What is
meant is that he should feed him until he is
satisfied.”
[Al-Ikhtiyaaraat al-Fiqhiyyah]
A number of the Salaf (r) preferred the poor over
themselves when feeding them at the time of
Iftaar. Among these were Abdullah ibn Umar (r),
Maalik ibn Deenaar (r), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (r)
and others. Abdullah ibn Umar (r) would not
break his fast unless there were orphans and
poor people with him.



Source: https://ultimatemuslimwarriors./2008/06/20/etiquettes/