For thirty days we did the strange thing of voluntarily depriving ourselves from consuming what keeps us alert and alive, from those things that we love. And now that the celebrations of the end of Ramadan have finally quieted down, we wonder: Now what?

Ramadan is a month of cleansing: a month during which the believer is spiritually and physically cleansed from the impurities that are an inevitable fact of life on earth estranged from the Lord God. It is fitting to fast to achieve this goal. As physicians, whenever we want an accurate picture of the health and actions of the body's metabolic pathways, we ask the patient to fast before having their blood drawn.

So we know we need to perform the daily prayers. What if you’re that person who knows s/he is supposed to pray, but you can’t bring yourself to do it? Maybe you’re just too lazy. Maybe, at those moments, you’re just out of energy. You wish you could pray, ....

There is confusion among patients and physicians about which mediations can be used during fasting without breaking it. Even when consensus is reached among scholars, it takes long time for Muslim physicians to learn about the rulings and inform their patients of what and what not they can use during their fast.

The Muslim scholar and poet al-Rumi says, "There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach's emptiness." He compares people to reed pens, wooden instruments that could not write without first being hollowed out. "Be empty," he says, "and write secrets." Ramadan comes from the Arabic root "ramada," which refers to severe heat, as in the harsh

Debates and persons in this article are pure fiction; any resemblance with reality is mere coincidence: This is an imaginary debate occurring in the first day of Ramadan among three Muslims: Debater One (DO), Debater Two (DT), and the voice of Commonsense (CS).

I pray that Allah blesses each of you with the best of the blessed month of Ramadan. It is a month of remembrance and reflection, a time for renewed faith and spiritual elevation. We are fortunate to witness the coming of the month, and I pray that our worship and charitable deeds are accepted and multiplied.

We celebrate Ramadan and fast each of its days. But what happened in Ramadan that makes it a special month? Here?s a narrative about the FIRST RAMADAN and God?s revelation of the Quran to His final Messenger. In the far western part of the Arabian Peninsula, there is Mecca, the most visited city on earth. Tens of millions of people each year travel to the ancient city to carry out rites of worship that date back to Abraham.