RAMADHAN

Ramadhan is one of the islamic month. Ramadhan is glorified as priority work in the month. In the obligatory fasting month of Ramadhan and give alms at the end of Ramadhan and ahead of Shawal. Ramadhan is a special month and the noble side of Allah S.W.T and His servants. As muslims we need to honor and appreciate for blessing. There's a lot of change in terms of time, event, and many more in the month of Ramadhan.

Firstly, in terms of adzan time for the morning in Ipoh around 05.37 am and for iftar around 07.32 pm, and for taraweeh is around 08.30 pm. Other than that, there's reduction of working hours. Usually working hours around 08.00 am to 05.00 pm (8 hours/day), during Ramadhan it turned out to be 08.00 am to 04.00 pm (7 hours/day), or minus one hour each day, same goes for students period.

Secondly, there are a lot of Ramadhan bazaar. Obviously this is easier for those who do not have time to cook at home. For the price of food provided was quite affordable, even we can enjoy food that tastes like a five star restaurant with a cheap price. For iftar, almost every mosque in Malaysia always hold iftar events throughout the month of fasting. Iftar is always open to the public, both for local residents and muslims from other countries. The menu certainly there is "Lambuk porridge", which seems to be mendatory food provided by the committee of the mosque.

Finally, as a muslims, taraweeh is a prayer that are done at night at a time after isha' until the emergence of dawn or into the fajr prayer time which lasted for 30 days in the month of ramadhan, the month full of blessings, forgiveness and reward. The benefits and virtues of sunnah taraweeh prayers is like giving calmness to us,given so much reward, forgiven sins that have ever done.

As a conclusion, ramadhan is a month full of blessing to muslims, especially mosques that rarely visited or met on regular day, full for taraweeh prayer. This opportunities could strengthen brotherhood among muslims.

FATIN AQILAH AMRIAM@AMRAN

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