Former President John Dramani Mahama has extended warm felicitations to Muslims in Ghana as they being their month-long fasting [Sawm] in the Month of Ramadan.
In a Facebook post, the former president urged Muslims to use the month of Ramadan to offer supplication to Allah for the prosperity of the country.
Each year billions of Muslims around the world fast during the month of Ramadan.
Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
Ramadan begins with the sighting of the moon. This year’s Ramadan began on May 6, 2019 for most countries in the world.
Fasting in Ramadan involves abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations from dawn to sunset.
Ramadan for Muslim is a month of reflection, self-improvement in relations to one’s behaviour to other people, oneself and Allah.
It is also a way to show solidarity with millions of poor people who cannot afford a four square meal.
Muslims begin the fast before the call to the Fajr prayer after they are done with suhoor and fast till the setting of the sun after the call of Maghrib evening prayer.
Children, elderly, people who are travelling, pregnant women, people who are suffering from chronic illness are however excused from fasting but they are required to make up the fasting later or compensate by feeding the hungry in proportion to the fast they had missed.