My dear Fasting Brother and Sister, thinking about the food and drinking on fasting is a clear evidence that you have a leisure time, incapable to keep yourself busy during the hours of fasting. Therefore, we offer you, here, some ideas helping you to resist the desire to eat, making you feel the good taste of fasting.

1) Fasting Ramadan Twice
Wait a moment. It is not a joke. All what you have to do is to invite everyday a guest to have the Iftar at your home or giving the food to some of the fasting people in the neighborhood for getting the reward mentioned by Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) who said, "Who gives a fasting man the Iftar , he will be rewarded as the fasting guest without decreasing the reward of the guest". Accordingly, you can keep yourself and your family effectively busy.

2) Investigation, Searching and the Act of propaganda
Keep your mind constantly busy with searching for a way to encourage others to spend money on the good deeds, making utmost use of the Ramadan gatherings in collecting money and finding a way to deliver them to the due everywhere.

3) Re-Programming
Re-program your behaviors by giving up the bad habits and occupying your time with acquiring new good habits.

4) Revising the old religious information
No doubt, the days of the Glorious Ramadan give a great opportunity to attend some serious and useful sessions in the mosques and the other religious places for knowledge. What a great chance to meet friends for exchanging the news.

5) Declaring the boycott
I do not mean boycotting the goods and products. Rather, I mean boycotting the mass media. What a nice experiment if you imagine your life free from the T.V. and the satellite channels. Needless to say that this way will give you much time for doing more useful and interesting acts.


6) Employing the day hours before Iftar
The limited time before Iftar and the call of the Sunset prayer is the most difficult time when a fasting man feels hungry. What do you think if you spend these hours in praising and glorifying God? Thus, you will remind yourself with the great reward promised by Allah to the fasting, and you will be one of whose supplications are acceptable- the fasting, the traveler and the oppressed.

7) Performing 30 Umra
Do not be surprised. You can perform Umra daily throughout Ramadan month. Just do not waste your the time after the Dawn prayer in sleeping; devote it to the glorification, supplication and reading Qur’an. After the rising, pray two prostrations for getting the complete reward of the Umra.

8) Performing Hajj with the Prophet
You can do that through employing some days of this kind month to perform Umra during Ramadan, taking into account that performing Umra during Ramadan is like performing Hajj.

9) Organizing seminars
Undoubtedly, you want to keep some verses of Qur’an by heart. Just join to a Qur’an seminars spread during Ramadan in mosques and charity organizations everywhere.

10) An invitation to meditation
We always read the whole Qur’an. But we pass some verses without trying to think over the real meaning or moral of these verses. What do you think if you read Qur’an differently this year by grasping the hidden meanings of the different verses of Qur’an.

To conclude, there are a great number of ideas yet you can not benefit from this kind month unless you put these ideas into practice.