Ramadan or Ramadan (in Arabic: رمضان) is the ninth month of the lunar Hijri (Islamic religious calendar systems). Throughout this month Moslems perform a series of religious activities including fasting, prayer tarawih, warning the decline of Al-Quran, seek Laylatul Qadr night, multiply reading the Quran and then end it by paying tithes and a series of Eid celebrations. Specificity of Ramadan for Moslems is reflected in the Quran in surah Al Baqarah verse 185:
من أيام أخر يريد الله بكم اليسر ولا يريد بكم العسر ولتكملوا العدة ولتكبروا الله على ما هداكم ولعلكم تشكرون
It means: "Month of Ramadan, the month in which inherited the Al-Quran as guidance for mankind and explanations of instructions and a differentiator. Therefore, whoever among you is present in that month, then let him fast the month ... "
Ramadan itself is derived from the root ر م ض, which means heat or drought, particularly on the ground. Babylonians who had a very dominant culture in the northern Arabian Peninsula using the Luni-solar calendar (counting years based on the moon and sun as well). Nine months to fall in the summer is always a very stinging. From morning till dusk the stones of the mountain and desert sand segatan baked by the summer sun at noon time is longer than night time. At night the heat on rocks and sand subsided a little bit, but before the cold really had met with the morning. So to be repeated, so that after weeks of scorching heat accumulation. Those days are called the month of Ramadan, the month with a scorching heat. Since the days of Ramadan fasting, throat burned with thirst. Or, are expected to worship the sins of Ramadan earlier become charred and after Ramadan, the fasting person is no longer innocent. Allaahu `alam.
