The following is a piece that I put together about the month of Ramadan. Some of it is original material and some of it is collected and edited from various public-domain sources. It is especially useful for non-Muslims who are eager to learn more about this blessed and sacred month…
Fasting and the Month of Ramadan
Collected and edited by: Khalil Moore (Christopher J. Moore)
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“You have to meet him before his death,”
….. is what the elderly scholar Shaykh Muhammad Ma’moon told me in his humble home in Madinah, the City of the Noble Prophet of Islam, peace and blessings be upon him, (in the region that is now called Saudi Arabia). The person whom Shaykh Ma’moon was referring to is the great and noble sage, al-Murabit al-Hajj, of the Mauritanian desert lands. Shaykh Ma’moon himself had studied with him before he left his homeland to take up residence within the sacred precincts here in the blessed city of the Prophet (may God’s peace and blessings be upon him).
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life,
personal stories,
scholars,
travels
“Why did you convert?”… “How did it happen?”…
I’m glad you asked. Here is the answer…..
These resonating questions have been posed to me perhaps hundreds of times since that unforgettable decision I made in the summer of 1994. Why and how would a typical Caucasian, Catholic, nineteen-year-old American convert to such a “strange and mysterious” religion as Islam. These inquiries are all the more pertinent considering that this young man was born and raised in the West during the later part of the 20th century, in a world that is increasingly more hostile to and abusive of the sacred.
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learning,
life,
personal stories,
travels
