Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Food and Fasting
- Ramadan
- Sawm - fasting
- Fast during all daylight hours
- Should not eat, drink, smoke, or
have sexual activity
- Refrain from anger
and aggression
- More time to read
and worship from
Qur'an
- Special prayers every
night - tarawih
- Iftah meal breaks fast
at the end of the day
- 'Oh God! We
have fasted and
now we break the
fast with the food
you have given
us'
- Nothing should pass the lips
- 9th month of
Islamic calendar
- Ends with big celebration
- Eid-ul-Fitr
- Fard for adults
- Children, menstruating,
pregnant or
breastfeeding women,
the old, the sick and
travellers are exempt
- 'O believers, you must
fast so that you might
learn self restraint.
Fasting is prescribed for
you during a fixed number
of days'
- Aims of sawm
- Develop self control
- Restrain
passion and
appetite
- Prepare for future sufferings
- Experience
hunger -
sympathy
for the
poor
- Gain spiritual strength
- Experience companionship through
shared ordeals - ummah
- Islamic Diet
- Halal - allowed
- All meat slaughtered by halal method
- Dhabiah
- Fish, fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds
- Haram - forbidden
- Pork
- Viewed as
unclean - eats
excrement
- No animal
fats, gelatine
etc
- Can only eat when no other
food is available
- 'If a person is forced because there is no other choice, neither craving nor
transgressing, there is no sin committed. Indeed, Allah is forgiving, merciful'
- Food should not be wasted