A Clarification of Some Common Doubts and Misconceptions Affiliated with the Month of Ramaḍān
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Najmī, Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī, Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Bāz, Shaykh Khālid ibn Ḍahwī al- Ẓufayrī, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād, Shaykh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī
The blessed month of Ramaḍān is a time of worship and righteous deeds. However, during this month, many misnomers and false practices exist. The following is a compilation of common doubts and misconceptions corrected and clarified by Islamic scholars.
Add a commentHighlighting Some Errors Committed during the Blessed Month of Ramaḍān and on ʿĪd Day
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Najmī, Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān, Shaykh Muḥammad Amān al-Jāmī
The blessed month of Ramaḍān is a time of worship and performing righteous deeds; however, during this blessed time, numerous errors exist. The following is a compilation of some random errors identified by Islamic scholars.
Add a commentBenefit: Actualise the Sunnah - Break Your Fast With Dates
In the Name of Allāh, the Ever Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy
Shaykh Khālid ibn Ḍaḥwī al-Dhufayrī mentioned:
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We would like to shed light on an error many of those who break their fasts fall into, due to their lack of attention. It is that people have become accustomed to breaking fast by drinking. They may drink milk with dates while milk is a liquid and dates are solids. Liquids enter the stomach before dates. Therefore, what has he broken his fast with, with milk not dates. So make sure to eat, chew and swallow dates (first) so that they can reach your stomach, so that you may be one who actualises the Prophetic Sunnah.
Source: كيفية الفطر على التمر
Translated by: Munīb al-Ṣumālī
Support the Daʿwah this Ramaḍān - Important Projects
This Ramaḍān, we need your help to accomplish some lofty goals for the upcoming year in shāʾ Allāh. Since the 90s, TROID has been active in spreading Islamic daʿwah through various mediums. Since 1998, we've run websites (www.troid.ca | www.islaam.ca) aimed at spreading Islamic understanding at the most basic level; our websites are from the most frequently updated in their genre, with over 100GB of content, more than 1100 audios and close to 1000 articles. Since 1999, we've published 25 books, taking a qualitative, careful approach to producing professional, academic publications. Since 2001, we've run the largest database of Muslim Inmates support (with over 300 inmates on file), known as the TROID IAP (Inmate Assistance Programme), providing free literature and counselling. We organise free conferences, classes and seminars in Toronto, broadcast around the world in HD on radio.troid.ca, inviting speakers from around the world. Since 2004, we've run a Masjid and Islamic Daʿwah centre which is refuge to many young Muslims in Toronto, a place of peace, brotherhood and learning. We have weekly classes in ʿaqīdah, qurʾān and the Arabic language.
Our classes, seminars, lectures, conferences, articles, audios, pamphlets etc. are all 100% free - this requires support, this is an effort deserving of your noble contributions.
In short, we are active daily is providing a clear and simple understanding of Islām through multiple media platforms, locally and internationally...and we need your help! TROID is not funded by any government, charity or organisation. By the grace of Allāh, we are supported by your kindness and generosity to help us power through these beautiful projects.
Brothers and sisters, help us meet our Ramaḍān Goals:
2019 Arabic Summer Course
2019 | 1440 Arabic Summer Course
Courses Insructor:
Muḥammad Shākir
Date: Mon. June 10th - Mon. July 15th, 2019
Location: Masjid al-Furqān (TROID) 874-A Weston Rd. Toronto, Canada
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TROID Renovation Drive
TROID Renovation Drive 1440 AH | 2019 CE
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2018/12/11
This year, we are undertaking the important task of renovating the TROID Centre. The centre includes Masjid al-Furqān, library, troid.store (non-profit), workshop and office space. The centre is host to the 5 daily prayers, weekly lectures, lessons and workshops for children and adults, approximately 10 conferences yearly as well as marriage services, counselling, daʿwah displays and much more.
In 2004, we moved to our location at 874-A Weston Rd. and renovated the entire warehouse space, converting it into a functional masjid and Islamic centre as well as creating toilets, shower and wūḍūʾ facilities. This work cost close to $60,000 and facilitated all our daʿwah activities locally and online for the past 14 years. Now, the centre is in need of important repairs such as:
- wall repairs, plastering and painting of the entire building
- 4' wood paneling around the brothers and sisters muṣallá and high traffic areas
- carpet for the brothers and sisters muṣallá (and library)
- laminate flooring for office space
- high traffic double doors for the brothers muṣallá (to keep heating/cooling in, energy efficiency)
- and more...
A list of needs, prioritised in phases is listed below. We appeal to the local and international community to support this important need as TROID is an active participant in the local, regional and international daʿwah scene. Visit us at 874-A Weston Rd. in Toronto to learn more about this project or view our daʿwah efforts online: troid.org, troid.store, islaam.ca, fb.com/troidorg, twitter.com/troidorg, youtube.com/troidtube
Videos and updates regarding renovation needs to follow in shāʾ Allāh.
Benefit: Is It from the Sunnah to Eat an Odd Number of Dates in Ramaḍān?
In the Name of Allāh, the Ever Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy
[Q]: I heard that the fasting individual must break his fast with an odd number of dates like 5 or 7 etc. Is this obligated?
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Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn رحمه الله:
It is not obligatory to break one’s fast with an odd number of dates like 3, 5, 7 or 9. Rather, it is not even from the Sunnah except on ʿĪd al-Fiṭr. It has been authentically established that the Prophet ﷺ would not depart for prayer on the day of ʿĪd al-Fiṭr until he had eaten an odd number of dates. As for other than this occasion, the Prophet ﷺ would not intend to eat an odd number of dates.
Source: فتاوى نور على الدرب ٢٥٤
Translated by: Munīb al-Ṣumālī
Ramaḍān 1440 Prayer Schedule for TROID
The 1st day of Ramaḍān, AH 1440 corresponds to Monday May 6th, 2019 CE. Tarawīḥ will begin Sunday May 5th after Ṣalāt al-ʿIshāʾ.
ʿĪd al-Fiṭr will be either Tuesday June 4th or Wednesday June 5th 2019.
Here is a prayer timetable specifically for the area of Weston and Masjid al-Furqān at TROID.
Note: For those who live around the GTA, they should exhibit caution as the prayer time may differ slighting due to the vast size of the GTA.
