Ramadan for Women: Making it Special, Making it Spiritual

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by Saraji Umm Zaid

http://www.modernmuslima.com/ramadanwomen.htm

Ramadan was never meant to be about food. It's natural that human beings will want to focus on food after spending half of the day avoiding it, but our focus in Ramadan should be to pull ourselves away from these dunyawi desires and habits and achieve a higher level of awareness and living. Many Muslims are in danger of making Islam a part of their culture, something hauled out twice a year at Ramadan and Hajj. It's time for women to stand up and reclaim our religious duties, responsibilities, and rights, especially in Ramadan. We're the vanguard of Islam in "Masjid al Bait," and we need to take it seriously.

This is good because it outlines some very important points:

1] We keep expecting Women to be cooking all throughout Ramadhan - they need time to develop themselves and enjoy Ramadhan too

2] Ramadhan is NOT about the food. We shouldn't be wasting time so much time on it and placing so much emphasis on it.

3] Other advice for the Sisters

I think this is important because we see it happening a lot. Any of the Sisters here see this around?