Ramadan has begun

Many people may not have realized that Ramadan has begun. I would think that even fewer people know what Ramadan is. So I would like to provide some information to everyone:

The following is from the Between Two Worlds blog:

What is "Ramadan"? According to Norman Geisler and Abdul Saleeb's book, Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross, "Followers of Muhammad commemorate his receiving of the Qur'an by fasting in the ninth lunar month of Ramadan. They are expected to refrain from eating food during the daylight hours for this entire month. However, they are allowed to eat from sunset to sunrise during this time." For more info, see the Wikipedia article on Ramadan.


To learn much more about Islam, you should check out the following link. It contains many videos you can watch online: Videos

Something you can do during this time is use these 30 days of Ramadan to make Muslims a special focus of your prayer life.

To assist with this, a website called 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World has some helpful resources.

In particular, you can download for free (or pay to order) their 50 page, illustrated prayer guide booklet [that] contains insight, prayer points and background articles.

Here's the link to a PDF of the booklet: 2007 30-Days Prayer Booklet.