Is Ramadhan The Month of Food?

Well, NO, it is NOT !!  But Burger King apparently thinks so….Hmmm... I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry… This is a couple of years old but I just came across it…

Also read the following rulings:

The statement “Ramadhan Kareem”, is not Allaah Al Kareem!

Sheikh Saleh al Fawzan رحمه الله answers:

This has no basis. Their statement Ramadhan Kareem, this has NO basis. As for “Ramadhan Shareef”, “Ramadhan Mubaarik”, “Ramadhan Atheem”, these descriptions appear in various narrations. Atheem, Mubaarik, Shareef, there is no problem (with these terms). As for Kareem, then I do not know of any origin for this.

                 

Say ‘Ramadhan Mubarak’ NOT ‘Ramadhan Kareem’                                  

by Sheikh Uthaymeen رحمه الله  

When some people, for example, lie in Ramadhan, or when he cheats or backbites, and others prohibit him saying to him, ‘This is haraam (forbidden),’ he says ‘Ramadhan kareem’. What is the ruling for that?

Answer: The ruling of that is that the statement ‘Ramadhan kareem’ is not correct. Rather it should be said ‘Ramadhan Mubarak’, or whatever is similar to it, because it is NOT Ramadhan itself that gives so that it can be kareem (generous), in fact it is Allaah who placed the grace in it, and made it a special month, and a time to perform one of the pillars of Islaam. 

It is as if the one saying this thinks that the sacredness of the time allows him to commit transgressions. This is turning around what the people of knowledge have said that bad deeds are greater at special times and places, the opposite of what the one saying this imagines. They say that it is obligatory to fear Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى at all times, and in all places, especially in special times and special places.

Allaah The Honourable and Majestic says,

‘O you who believe! Observing As-Saum (the fasting) is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqun.’

(The pious – see V.2:2). [2:183]

Allaah shows that the wisdom of fasting is taqwa (God-consciousness) of Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى by fulfilling His commandments and avoiding His prohibitions. It has been ascertained from the Prophet (صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم) that he said, “Whosoever does not leave speaking falsehood, or acting with it or ignorance, then Allaah has no need that he leaves his food and drink.”

Fasting is cultivation of the self, guarding it from the prohibitions of Allaah, and not as this ignoramus says that due to the sacredness and blessing of this month it allows committing transgressions. 

Translated by Rasheed bin Estes Barbee