Ramadan

EVERY year when Ramadan is around the corner, there is a flurry of activity in preparing for it. Whether it’s stocking up on food or

IT is Allah’s mercy that He blessed us with two meals during this month of fasting so we could recharge and energize ourselves. We should

SHORTLY after arriving back in London for the last two weeks of Ramadan, one of my sisters informed me of her colleagues and boss who

MOST people my parents’ age would say that Ramadan is less “family-oriented than it used to be” and it seems to be the time where

I remember the beginning of Ramadan a few years ago: the festive supermarkets with their jampacked aisles, the makeshift roadside stalls outside restaurants selling crisp sambusas

LOOKING at the abundance of food on our Iftar tables, it never ceases to appall me how much time, energy, expense and effort is spent in

ONE might wonder why our Creator would require us to fast for a month out of every year, given that He is all-powerful, self-sufficient and