Ramadan: A Month of Purification

The fasting person repeatedly reads in the Quran that God is the Sustainer, that is, while man is the taker, God is the Giver. Everything that a person receives in this world, right from his existence and the oxygen he inhales to stay alive to the sunlight necessary for his survival, everything is God’s gift. Thinking this way, he experiences a tremendous change within. He begins living in society as a giver-member. By seriously studying and contemplating on the Quran, one discovers its deeper meaning and those principles by which one may develop one’s personality and become a positive thinker in the full sense. Then one is able to live a God-oriented life. SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF IFTAR x Iftar is an Arabic word, which literally means ‘to break’. In the Islamic context, it means to break the fast, to eat and drink in the evening after the daylong