Ramadan: A Month of Purification

God will bless us with His reward.’ (Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 2357) Iftar invokes the spirit of prayer. Feeling pangs of hunger and thirst makes a man feel vulnerable and he turns towards God with renewed zeal. He cries out, ‘O God, I have fulfilled my duty and now I hope You will not deprive me of Your higher blessings.’ When a sincere prayer like this is uttered, God turns His special attention to it, and the rewards are boundless. Man prays in this world and the reward is given in the world Hereafter. Fasting is an exception for which a taste of the reward is given in this world itself. Iftar gives a glimpse of the boundless rewards that await man in the Hereafter. RAMADAN AND DESIRE-MANAGEMENT x In the Chapter Al-Baqarah (2:183) of the Quran, believers are enjoined to fast during the month of