Sayings about Ramadan

Ramadan is the month of worship and obedience for Muslims. It is the month of fasting, during which Muslims abstain from food and drink. The period of fasting begins from the call to prayer for dawn until sunset. The month of Ramadan is considered distinct among Muslims from the rest of the months of the Hijri year, and here in this article you will find sayings about Ramadan.

Sayings about Ramadan

• When Ramadan began, Al-Zuhri would say: It is only reading the Qur’an and feeding food.
• Ibn al-Hakam said: When Ramadan began, Malik would flee from reading hadiths and sitting with scholars.
• Muhammad bin Idris Al-Shafi’i used to complete sixty seals in the month of Ramadan.
• Ibn Abi Dawud narrated with his authentic chain of transmission that a Mujahid (may God have mercy on him) used to complete the Qur’an in Ramadan between Maghrib and Isha, and they used to delay Isha in Ramadan until a quarter of the night had passed.
• Qatada used to complete the Qur’an once every seven nights, and when Ramadan came, he completed it once every three nights, and when the ten days came, he completed it once every night.
• Marouf Al-Karkhi was asked: How do you fast? The questioner made a mistake and said: The fast of our Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was such-and-such, and David’s fast was such-and-such, so he insisted on it and said: I have become fasting all my life, so whoever called me, I ate, and I did not say that I was fasting.
• If you are unable to pray the night prayers or fast during the day, know that you are deprived and shackled by sins and transgressions.
• One day it was said to Al-Hasan Al-Basri: O Abu Saeed, what brings sadness into the heart? He said: Hunger. He said: What brings it out? He said: Satiety. And he used to say: Repent to God for the abundance of sleep and food.
• There are four pleasures in this world: money, women, sleep, and food. As for money and women, I have no need for them, and as for sleep and food, I need them. By God, I will do no harm to them with my effort. He used to stay awake all night and continue fasting.
• Some of the predecessors prioritized fasting over all other acts of worship, and when he was asked about that, he said: It is more beloved to me for God to look at my soul while it is struggling with me for food and drink than for Him to look at it while it is struggling with me to disobey Him when I am satisfied.
• If he fasts, he recognizes God’s blessings upon him in satiating and quenching his thirst, and thanks them for that, because the extent of blessings is not known except by losing them.
• A scent will come to the people of Paradise, and they will say: Our Lord, we have not found a scent more pleasant than this scent since we entered Paradise. Then it will be said: This is the scent of the mouths of those who fast.
• The motto of the believers on the Resurrection is that their ablution in this world will be distinguished to distinguish them from all other nations, and their motto on the Resurrection will be the goodness of their faces, sweeter than the scent of musk, so that they will be recognized among that crowd by that action. We ask God’s blessings on that day.
• The fasting person is in worship, even if he is sleeping on his bed. Hafsa used to say: Oh, I love worship while I am sleeping on my bed. The fasting person is in worship, day and night, in worship, and his prayers are answered during his fasting and when he breaks his fast. He is fasting and patient during the day, and at night he is devout and thankful.
• Yes, the time of the believer is winter: his nights are long when he prays, and his days are short when he fasts
• We have heard that God Almighty will say to His saints on the Day of Resurrection: O my saints, as long as I have looked upon you in this world, while your lips have withheld drink, your eyes watered, and your stomachs have dried up, be today in your bliss, and share the cup among yourselves.
• On the authority of some of the predecessors, he said: We have heard that a table is set for fasting people on which they eat, and people are held accountable, so they say: O Lord, we will be held accountable while they eat, so it is said: They have always fasted and you have broken your fast, and they have risen and slept.
• It is enough to say (Fasting is for me) that fasting is superior to all other acts of worship.
• We have learned that all righteous deeds belong to God and He is the one who rewards them, so we see, and God knows best, that he only singled out fasting because it is not apparent from the son of Adam by his action, but rather it is something in the heart, because deeds are not accomplished except by movements, except for fasting, which is done by intention that is hidden from people, and this My talking point.
• On the authority of Abu Umamah, may God be pleased with him, he said: I said: O Messenger of God, command me to do something. He said: (You must fast, for there is no justice for it.) Narrated by Al-Nasa’i and authenticated by Al-Nasa’i.
• All that God mentioned in the Qur’an is tourism: they are those who fast.
• Some Arabs used to say: We see that the fasting person is called a tourist, because the traveler does not have any food with him, but rather eats wherever he finds food, as if he took from that.
• Tourism of this nation is fasting.
• There is no hypocrisy in fasting. Hypocrisy does not enter into one’s actions. Whoever is good, he will be good to him, and whoever is troublesome, he will be bad for him. And whoever does good in his night will be rewarded in his day, and whoever does good in his day will be rewarded in his night, but the servant will be measured just as he was measured.
• Prayer takes its person halfway, fasting brings him to the door of kingship, and charity takes him by the hand and brings him to the door of kingship.
• Ibn Jarir said in the interpretation of the Almighty’s saying: (And seek help from patience and prayer, and indeed it is difficult, except for the humble.) It has been said: The meaning of patience in this situation is fasting, and fasting is some of the meanings of patience with us.
• The predecessors used to recite the Qur’an during the month of Ramadan in prayer and elsewhere.
• On the authority of Taliq ibn Qais, he said: Abu Dharr said: If you fast, then observe as much as you can. So, when Taliq was on the day of his fast, he entered and did not leave except to pray.
• There are three types of fasting: the fast of the soul, which is shortening hope, the fast of the mind, which is opposing one’s desires, and the fast of the limbs, which is abstaining from food, drink, and sexual intercourse.
• The right of fasting is that you know that it is a veil that God has placed over your tongue, your hearing, your sight, your private parts, and your stomach, to protect you from Hell with it, and this is how it was stated in the hadith (Fasting is a shield from Hell). If your limbs remain in its veil and hope that you will be veiled, and if you leave it disturbed in its veil and raise the sides of the veil and look at what is not for it with a look that calls for desire, and the strength that is outside the limit of piety to God is not safe to pierce the veil and come out of it, and there is no power except in God. If you abandon fasting, you will break God’s protection over you.
• You are an old man, and fasting weakens you. He said: I am preparing him for a long journey, and patience in obeying God is easier than patience in His torment.
• Some of the predecessors said: The easiest way to fast is to abstain from food and drink.
• One of their supplications was: O God, grant me peace until Ramadan, grant me Ramadan, and accept it from me.
• It was narrated on the authority of Al-Hasan bin Abi Al-Hasan Al-Basri that he passed by a people while they were laughing, and he said: God – the Almighty – made the month of Ramadan a track for His creation, in which they raced to obey Him. So a people preceded and won, and a people lagged behind and were disappointed. So it is all astonishing for the laughing player on the day the previous ones won and were disappointed. The invalidators. By God, if the cover was removed, the doer of good would be busy with his good deeds, and the evildoer would be busy with his evil.
• It was said to Bishr: Some people worship and strive diligently in Ramadan only. He said: What a miserable people they do not recognize God’s rights except in Ramadan. The righteous one is the one who worships and strives throughout the year.
• It was said to one of the righteous: Which is better, Rajab or Sha`ban? He said: Be a godly person and do not be a Sha`banite.
• The year is a tree, the months are its branches, the days are its branches, the hours are its leaves, and the breaths of the people are its fruit. The month of Rajab is the days of its flowering, Shaban is the days of its branching, Ramadan is the days of its harvesting, and the believers are the harvests of it.
• A group of her predecessors sold a slave girl, and when the month of Ramadan approached, she saw them preparing for it and preparing with food and other things, so she asked them and they said: We are preparing to fast Ramadan, and she said: And you only fast Ramadan! I was with people who had Ramadan all their time, so return me to them.
• The Mother of the Believers, Aisha, may God be pleased with her, used to read from the Qur’an at the beginning of the day during the month of Ramadan, and when the sun rose, she fell asleep.
• He, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: (The Qur’an is an intercessor, an intercessor, a truth-maker. Whoever puts it in front of it will lead him to Paradise, and whoever puts it behind it will drive him to Hell.) Narrated by Ibn Hibban, Ibn Majah, Al-Tabarani, and Al-Bayhaqi, and authenticated by Al-Albani.
• And he, peace and blessings be upon him, said: (Fasting and the Qur’an will intercede for the servant on the Day of Resurrection. Fasting says: That is, My Lord, I prevented him from food and desires during the day, so let me intercede for him. The Qur’an says: My Lord, I prevented him from sleeping at night, so let me intercede for him, so they will intercede for him.) An authentic hadith.
• The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: (The Qur’an will come on the Day of Resurrection like a pale man and say: I am the one who stayed up your night and thirsty your day.) Its chain of transmission is good according to Muslim’s conditions.
• The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: (Whoever prays Ramadan out of faith and seeking reward, his previous sins will be forgiven).
• A man came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and said: O Messenger of God, what do you think if I bear witness that there is no god but God and that you are the Messenger of God, and pray the five daily prayers, and pay zakat, and fast and pray the prayers of Ramadan, then who am I? He said: (From the two truthful ones and the martyrs) Narrated by Al-Bazzar, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Hibban, and authenticated by Al-Albani.
• One of them said: None of you should say: Tonight is Laylat al-Qadr, and if another time comes, he says: Tonight is Laylat al-Qadr.
• Ali bin Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, went out on the first night of Ramadan, while the lamps were blooming in the mosque, and the Book of God was being recited, so he started calling out: May God enlighten your grave, O Ibn Al-Khattab, just as you illuminate the mosques of God with the Qur’an.