How do Muslims around the world celebrate the month of Ramadan?

 How do Muslims around the world celebrate the month of Ramadan?

It occupied bright pages in the history of peoples and became distinctive signs for many countries.

Aspects of welcoming the month of Ramadan. The days pass and the ninth month of each Hijri year descends on the Islamic nation as a generous guest. Souls yearn for it, hearts yearn to meet it, and eyes shed tears when it departs. God Almighty has assigned the days of the holy month to a status that is unmatched in its characteristics and virtues by any other days throughout the year. Regarding this great status, the Messenger of God, Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, addressed the people by saying: “O people, a great and blessed month has overtaken you, a month in which a night is better than a thousand months, a month in which God has made fasting obligatory and praying its night voluntary, and it is the month of patience, and patience is its reward.” Paradise, the month of consolation. Whoever breaks the fast in it for a fasting person will have his sins forgiven and his neck freed from Hell, and he will have a reward similar to his reward, without his reward being diminished in the slightest. They said, O Messenger of God: Not all of us find something to break the fasting person. So he, peace and blessings be upon him, said: God gives this reward to whoever breaks the fast for a date, or for a drink of water, or a taste of milk. It is a month whose beginning is mercy, whose middle is forgiveness, and whose end is freedom from the Fire. And whoever gives water to a fasting person, God will give him to drink from. My basin is a drink after which he will not feel thirsty until he enters Paradise.” The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him ..

Muslims in all parts of the earth await the blessed month of Ramadan and yearn for it with a strange longing that is not found in any other religion. Muslims begin their preparation for the holy month since the month of Shaban, during which the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to fast. The interest of Muslims in the coming of the month of Ramadan is due to the fact that the reward is maximized and the doors of goodness are opened to everyone who desires it. It is the month of goodness and blessings, the month of piety and righteousness, and the month of fasting, prayer and reading the Qur’an. In it the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hell are closed, and the rebellious devils are chained up in it. And Muslims are more than happy in it. Their happiness is at no other time throughout the year, as it brings joy to all homes and individuals, and all Muslims in the east and west of the earth are equal in this regard, regardless of their races and colors.

For hundreds of years, Muslims have become accustomed to various aspects of welcoming the month of Ramadan, such as the sighting of the crescent moon, Ramadan banquets held by the rich and philanthropists to feed the poor, the Mesaharati and its role in waking up the fasting people to eat the suhoor meal, the Iftar cannon found in some Islamic countries, and other aspects of welcoming the month of fasting.

These manifestations turned into customs and occupied bright and important pages in the history of peoples, until they later became distinct and distinctive signs for many countries, despite their similarity in many cases and their differences in other times. These are examples of how the holy month of Ramadan is received in some countries.

And in Egypt

  The streets and alleys have been decorated with flags and paper banners since the last week of the month of Shaban, so that the neighborhoods and alleys in Egypt witness the beautiful phenomenon of tying ropes between opposite houses, with banners and lanterns hung on them. The story of the widespread use of lanterns during Ramadan is a long story, the chapters of which are necessarily repeated every Ramadan. In ancient times, the Egyptians used (candle) lanterns that used wax as a lighting tool.

Children in the holy month have a funny and beautiful story. On the night of sighting the Ramadan crescent, they go out to the streets, whether with their fellow children, or alongside their family members, wearing their best clothes, and carrying Ramadan flags and lanterns, singing songs and chants specific to this holy month in collective joy. overwhelming..

in Iraq

In Iraq, Muslims buy Ramadan supplies twenty days before its arrival, and decorations and lighting are placed on most clothing and sweets shops. Breakfast consists of soup, which consists of: lentils, vermicelli, green celery, rice, and broth consisting of beans, okra, and eggplant, in addition to grilled kebabs and fried and raw kebabs.

After the evening and Tarawih prayers, desserts are eaten, the most famous of which are baklava, dumplings, vermicelli, and kunafa.

in America

One of the most important customs of Muslims in the United States of America during the holy month of Ramadan is holding communal Iftar tables followed by Tarawih prayers, which is an important occasion for social rapprochement among Muslims. An observer of the lives of Muslims during the Holy Month notices unusual activity, such as their frequenting their mosques for various reasons, most notably Tarawih prayers, as a sign of the spread of Islam and Muslims and their presence in various American cities and villages, and that local Muslim communities are on their way to maturity and to become an integral part of the religious fabric of society. The American.

.Suhoor time

Due to Muslims’ eagerness to eat suhoor, there were many means and methods of alerting those who were fasting and waking them up at the time of suhoor. In the Prophet’s era, they knew the time of suhoor by Bilal’s call to prayer, and they knew to catch the suhoor call by Ibn Umm Maktoum’s call to prayer. With the expansion of the Islamic state and the multiplicity of states, other means of suhoor began to appear, so the function of the musaharati appeared in the Abbasid era. Utbah bin Ishaq, the governor of Egypt, is considered the first to roam the streets of Cairo at night in Ramadan to wake up its people to eat the suhoor meal in the year 238 AH. He endured the hardship of walking from the city of Al-Askar to Fustat, calling to the people: “Servants of God, have suhoor, for there is a blessing in suhoor.”