Bismillah Reviving The Qur'an and Sunnah with Imam Shakur Abdulrahim

Ramadan Mubarak!

FAST TO DO WHAT G-D SAYS

In the Month of Ramadan for 30 days you are fasting for G-d's pleasure, to please G-d, to do what He says. I'd rather put it that way,

not for G-d's pleasure. It is for G-d's pleasure, but I would rather put it in a stronger way.

We are fasting to do what G-d says. The reward is that if you do it with good intentions and you did the best you could in the fast

month, at the end of the fast month, your sins are wiped off

TARAWIH PRAYERS

Imam Mohammed: No, no. That would not make it void, if you didn't finish the Qur'an. It wouldn't. As long as you are doing the

Ramadan prayers, the night prayers, the Tarawih Prayers, then you are hearing the Qur'an in the Month of Ramadan more than you will hear it in other months. Because you don't have those prayers after the night prayer, except in the Month of Ramadan.

Imam Karim: So you can do the Tarawih Payers at home or in the masjid?

Imam Mohammed: Yes. Yes, you can. Preferably, the first 20 days are so that we can do 10 of those in the home and 10 days with the community. And the last 10 days you may do with the community or at home, either. But you should have at least 10 days out of the 30 at home praying with your family.