لماذا يصوم المسلمون في رمضان؟

Fasting in the month of Ramadan is obligatory, and it is one of the five pillars of Islam ¹. The Qur'an links it to taqwa in Al-Baqara 183, and mentions in Al-Baqara 185 that the month is the one in which the Qur'an was revealed.

Fasting is abstaining from food, drink and all other things that break the fast, from dawn until sunset. This act of worship has social and spiritual dimensions, such as charity and night prayer, which the entry Fasting in Ramadan explains.

• Scholars differ over how the beginning of the month is established. This is one of the points of jurisprudential disagreement that this entry does not rule on.

The concessions for fasting and who is exempt from it, and its detailed rulings in the schools of law, will be added later from the books of jurisprudence.