VIRTUE of RAMADÂN-i-SHERÎF. (Maktubat, O,son)

The valuable letter, which you had been so kind to write, honoured us in the blessed month of Ramadân. That has reminded me to write a few lines of the virtues of this great month: 

The blessed month of Ramadân is very honourable. The thawâbs that are given for the supererogatory namâz, dhikr, alms and all other supererogatory acts of worship done in this month are like those that are given for the fard ones done in other months. One fard act of worship done in this month is like seventy fards done in other months. If a person gives (the supper called) Iftâr to a fasting person in this month, his sins will be forgiven. He will be emancipated from Hell. In addition, he will be given as many thawâbs as those which the fasting person receives. The thawâbs of that fasting person will not decrease. In this month, also those bosses who facilitate the work of those under their command and who make it easy for them to worship will be forgiven. They will be emancipated from Hell. In the holy month of Ramadân, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ used to emancipate the slaves and would give whatever was asked from him. Those who can do good deeds in this month will be blessed with doing such deeds all the year round. If a person disrespects this month and commits sins in this month, he will spend all the year sinning. [We should deem this month an opportunity.] We should perform as many acts of worship as we can. We should do the deeds which Allâhu ta’âlâ likes. We should deem this month an opportunity for earning the next world. The Qur’ân was revealed in the month of Ramadân. The night of Qadr is in this month. In holy Ramadân it is a sunnat to have the iftâr early and to have the sahûr late. (Sahûr is the meal which is eaten towards dawn before beginning the fast. Please see the second chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss.) Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was careful about performing these two acts of sunnat. Perhaps hurrying for the iftâr and being late for the sahûr shows man’s incapacity and that he needs to eat and drink and, consequently, everything. And this is the meaning of worshipping. It is a sunnat to have the iftâr with a date. It is an important sunnat to recite the prayer, “Zahabazzama’ wabtallat-il urûq wa thabat-al-ajr inshâallah-u ta’âlâ” after the iftâr, to perform the namâz of tarâwih and to read a khatm, (that is, to read the entire Qur’ân al-kerîm, in this month.)
Every night in this month, thousands of Muslims who are to go to Hell are forgiven and emancipated. In this month the gates of Paradise are opened. The gates of Hell are closed. The satans are chained. The doors of Compassion are opened. May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless us all with the lot of worshipping Him in a manner worthy of His greatness and with being on the right way which He likes! Âmîn.
[Those who fast at places where it is difficult to fast and who do not break their fast as a result of believing the lies of the enemies of Islam will be given more thawâbs. The holy month of Ramadân is the chastity of the Islamic religion. He who does not fast in this month is not respectful to this month. He who has not respected this month has destroyed Islam’s chastity. Even a person who does not perform namâz should fast and avoid the harâms. Such people’s fasting is accepted and is a symptom of their îmân.]
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Paragraphs taken from FIRST VOLUME, 45th LETTER // Imam Rabbani "rahmetullahi aleih"
Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle / p.132
This one and more valuable letters can be found on Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle
http://www.hakikatkitabevi.net/book.php?bookCode=026

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VIRTUE of RAMADÂN-i-SHERÎF 

When you fast in Ramadân-i-sherîf, fast with all your limbs, so that your fasting will be real fasting and you will attain the virtue and the grade of fasting. Our Master, the Habîb-i-Kibriyâ ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “Yâ Abâ Hurayra! When you fast, break your fast early! [That is, make iftâr as soon as the azân for the evening namâz is heard.] Of my Ummat, the good person is one who breaks his fast as soon as the azân for the evening namâz is called and who takes his time eating sahûr meal. For, there is plenty of rahmat and barakat in the sahûr. And if my Ummat performs fasting in Ramadân-i-sherîf beautifully and perfectly, nobody but the Dhât-i-pâk of Allâhu ta’âlâ Himself knows the ejr-i-mesûbât and the in’âm and ihsân that Hadrat Haqq ta’âlâ will give them on the evening of the ’Iyd. Hadrat Haqq ta’âlâ says with His ’Adhamat-i-Shân: ‘Fasting is done for My Grace. And I (alone) know the rewards that I am going to give.’ ” It is for this reason that disbelievers worshipped idols in all their acts of worship. Yet they did not worship them by fasting. Fasting in Ramadân, after performing namâz, is much more virtuous than all other acts of worship and than fasting in other months. [Fasting does not cause illness. It makes man stronger and opens his memory. We should not believe the lies fibbed by enemies of religion.]
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O,SON / Hakikat Kitabevi English books 
More information on how to find the new months` moon. 
http://www.hakikatkitabevi.net/book.php?bookCode=191  / p.137