– Ramadan is the holy month in which Muslims the world over give so much credence to whenever it is approaching

– It is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar

– Muslims fast either 29 or 30 days from dawn to sunset during this month

In a matter of days, the holy month of Ramadan for this year will kick start, where Muslims will abstain from food, drink and all other thingswhich vitiate fasting. Some of the reasons below are why there is no month compared to Ramadan in terms of the rewards our Creator gives us.

1. Ramadan is a month of Forgiveness.

2. Ramadan is a month of Rahmah (that is abundant blessings).

3. Ramadan is the month of generosity

.4. Ramadan, the month that Allaah subhaanahu wa ta’ala accepts the Tawbah (repentance) of the servants, and the month that Allaah blesses His servants.

5. We are in need of Ramadan to correct ourselves, for we have forgotten Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala for the majority of the year. To correct our selves for we have been neglectful. To correct ourselves for we are not upon the remembrance of Allaah.

6. To correct our selves because our hearts have gotten hard, some hearts are dead, some hearts are sick, some hearts are stone scold, some heart’s are black, getting no benefit whatsoever.

7. Some hearts are so bad, andso ill that they see a good as a Munkar, (as an evil), and they see an evil as agood. These are not as they should be.

8. We need a Ramadan because our connection with Allaah tabarak wa ta’ala is not correct .Muslims praying

9. We need a Ramadan because we do not have any Khushoo (devotion) in our Salaah.

10. We need a Ramadan because our Qura’an has dust and is sitting o­n a shelf.

11. We need a Ramadan because we never read the books of Sunnah

.12. We need a Ramadan because we don’t fast, and if we fast physically without food or drink, we don’t fast with our eyes by lowering them and our tongue by not slandering and our tongue by not lying and back-biting.

13. We need a Ramadan to get ourselves back in order, to work for the Hereafter, to connect ourselves to Allaah tabaarak wa ta’ala

.14. We need a Ramadan because relationships brother to brother and sister to sister is in a miserable condition.

15. We need a Ramadan because we have bad thoughts about o­ne another.

16. We need a Ramadan because of dhulm (injustice) to o­ne another.

17. We need a Ramadan because there is backbiting, there is envy, there is jealousy,and there is slander.

18. We need a Ramadan because we are despicable, because we are sick, because we are ill. (All these are diseases of the heart)

19. We need a Ramadan because we don’t believe in the promise of Allaah tabaarakwa ta’ala, or if we do, we do not implement it.

20. We need a Ramadan because it is time for us to change and become something better then we are now

.21. We need a Ramadan because that is the o­nly thingthat is going to get us together

.22. We need a Ramadan because we don’t have unity, there’s no brotherhood.

23. We need a Ramadan because there’s no respect forelders.

24. We need a Ramadan because there’s no real love between us.

25. We need a Ramadan, full of love and the Mercy of Allaah tabaarak wa ta’ala. A Ramadanlike we come in, like in a clinic or a hospital, trying to solve our illnesses, trying to come out of there without the disease we came with, trying to be better than we went in with.