What Is The Spiritual Significance Of Ramadan In Islam?

We understand how the month of Ramadan improves our inner faith (iman) as Muslims. That’s why it’s essential for us to know the spiritual significance of Ramadan in Islam. Fasting from dawn (sehr/fajar) to dusk (iftar/maghrib) and engaging in good deeds during this time give numberless spiritual and physical benefits. 

Every year, doing good deeds becomes easier as spirituality reaches its peak, and everyone goes into the mosque 5 times to perform prayers, give charity (zakat), read and listen to the Quran. It’s a time of reflection, devotion, and spiritual growth for Muslims worldwide. 

Now We cover the topic “the spiritual significance of Ramadan” in detail:

The spiritual significance of Ramadan in Islam

The spiritual significance of Ramadan (the month of blessing), is the month of opportunity to become closer to Allah swt, in which doing good during this sacred time directly influences spiritual reflection. It is a period of spiritual renewal, guided by the teachings of Islam, which illuminate our paths both internally and externally. 

If an adult Muslim has made mistakes in the past months, can make stronger contact with Allah with the help of the Quran, Taraweeh prayer, and fasting.

1. Build Spiritual strength

As Ramadan has many physical benefits, It is also highly beneficial for spiritual growth. In this holy month, Muslims are closer to Allah by fasting. Consequently, a Muslim who does such good deeds develops patience, gratitude, and piety. 

We all know that in this blessed month, Allah forgives His rights when we pray for forgiveness but does not forgive the rights of His servants until they forgive others. This is one of the great advantages of Ramadan: people fulfill the rights of others. They refrain from harming others and generously give their wealth to poor people. 

They bring joy to the needy by assisting them with their physical abilities. It is a significant spiritual benefit of Ramadan. Similarly, as a human being, we are happy when we do such good deeds, a Muslim maintains closeness to Allah throughout the year, and Allah protects His servants from falling into sin once again.

2. Fasting as a Shield from Evil Deeds

In this sacred month, a person is motivated to do good by looking at the environment around him, and when a person does one good deed, the way for the next good deed is paved for him. By doing good deeds, a person is saved from many sins, as Allah also says in the Holy Quran that good deeds erase sins. 

In this sense, Ramadan protects a person from sins on the one hand, but on the other hand, it makes him do good deeds. This is the reason why people change a lot after Ramadan. Before Ramadan, a person does some deeds and after Ramadan, he starts doing good deeds a lot every year because Ramadan brings consistency in good habits.

3. Learning Patience and Self-Control

Ramadan inculcates patience in a Muslim. By fasting during Ramadan, virtues like patience and self-control develop in him, which are necessary for flourishing in any society. If he stays away, he stays away from many lawful acts in order to obey the command of Allah. 

In this sense, Ramadan is very beneficial because it instills patience in any human being for people in the life to come after Ramadan. Patience is something that Allah himself commanded the Muslims and fasting is a great blessing of Allah to develop patience. 

Patience has many benefits:

• It helps in receiving abundant rewards.
• Angels greet the patient person.
• Patience is rewarded, with the reward increasing accordingly.

Similarly, Allah’s help also comes from patience. It is also mentioned in the prophet Muhammad PBUH hadith.

4. Family Unity and Bonding

When Ramadan comes, mutual love and compassion increase in any family. The reason is that family members meet again and again in Suhoor and Iftar to fast in Ramadan and eat food together. Discussions on various subjects lead to the development of tolerance for differing opinions among family members and also in Muslim friends.

Likewise, the relationship of a Muslim with his wife, children, and siblings is also strengthened by Ramadan. He considers his children as an important responsibility. He trains her and also tries to fulfill her rights by keeping his wife happy and shows good-natured loyalty and kindness to his brothers by showing a cheerful face in his intimate relationships.

5. Acceptance of Dua becomes easy

Ramadan is also called the month of dua. In the holiest month, a person asks Allah for many things like patience, piety, forgiveness, love of Allah, fear of Allah, and mercy. 

If we pray in Ramadan, we have full faith and trust in our hearts, and because of these things, many prayers (dua) of a person are accepted in Ramadan.

After ramadan ayat in surah al baqarah 185, Allah SWT said: 

6. Motivation to get Paradise (Jannah)

Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam and when we abstain from food and drink, So Allah has reserved a great reward for him and that reward is Paradise on the Day of Resurrection. Ramadan inspires Paradise. According to the hadith Prophet Muhammad pbuh, Allah Almighty says that fasting is for Me and I will reward it. 

Similarly, in Ramadan, the gates of Hell are closed and the gates of Paradise are opened in Ramadan. Allah swt gives immense rewards and rewards for those who fast on Ramadan day. 

A gate of Paradise called al-Ryan is reserved for those who fast and only those who fast will be able to enter it. The other will not be able to enter it. Allah swt frees many Muslims from hell even at the time of breaking the fast in the time of Iftar.

Looking at these many benefits in spiritual significance, the attraction of Ramadan is created within the Muslims and they are also encouraged to do good deeds, because by observing the month of Ramadan and fasting, a person gets the blessing of Allah, which is like a great paradise. 

7. Emphasizing Compassion through Charity

Ramadan creates generosity and compassion in people. During Ramadan, people often give charity and sometimes this charity sometimes it is in the form of food, and sometimes it is in the form of wealth. By helping Muslim brothers, they get rewards from Allah. 

This charity has the benefit of increasing the reward of people among Muslims, but on the other hand, it also has the benefit of instilling compassion and love among people. The feeling of love and brotherhood is created. This is the reason why the pain and feeling of our poor Muslim brothers increases within the people during Ramadan and its effect lasts until the end of Ramadan. 

They keep Zakat so that the month of Ramadan comes and they pay Zakat in it and Sadaqah al-Fitr is given on Eid, which helps many poor people. The basic teaching of Islam is to wish for the good of others because there is also a mention in a hadith of the prophet Muhammad PBUH that religion is the name of benevolence. When people give charity to each other in different ways, their Love arises within, which is the origin of religion.

8. Deepening Connection with the Quran (Taraweeh Prayer)

In Ramadan, people’s relationship with the Qur’an increases. Allah Almighty himself said in the Holy Qur’an that the month of Ramadan is the month in which the Qur’an was revealed. 

One of the characteristics of the month of Ramadan is that the majority of people start the Qur’an in Ramadan and complete it, and it is counted as the Qur’an of a specific Ramadan, in the same way, people complete up to five Quran in Ramadan. 

Tahajjud is an additional prayer. In non-Ramadan, people perform the Tahajjud prayer, which becomes Taraweeh in Ramadan. In Taraweeh, the Quran is completed and many people participate in it. This is the reason that whenever Ramadan comes, people’s relationship with the Quran increases and they read the Quran more frequently during Ramadan than in the Remaining 11 months.

9. Opportunity for Seeking Forgiveness

According to a hadith, From one Ramadan to another, It becomes the source of forgiveness of sins.

When the prayer of a fasting person is accepted, he can seek forgiveness from Allah and forgive his past and present sins. And he can ask for permission to do good deeds in the future. On the one hand, a person can pray to Allah and ask for his forgiveness, but on the other hand, a person can also ask for forgiveness for his sins by doing good deeds, because by doing good deeds, Allah forgives previous sins.                                                                                                                                                                                    

10. Laylatul qadr [the spiritual booster]

Lailatul-Qadr is one of the odd nights of the last ten days of the Islamic month of Ramadan. Allah revealed the Holy Qur’an to the sky of the world in a single night and after which jibreel AS (who is the chief of all the angels) sent down the verses of Quranic ayat to the Holy Prophet PBUH.

Lailat-ul-Qadr can happen in five nights:

• 21st
• 23rd
• 25th
• 27th 
• 29th

About which a Surah named Surah Qadr has been revealed in the Holy Quran. Many virtues have also been described. In surah Qadar, Allah said: Laylatul Qadr is better than a thousand months of worship. 

According to this calculation, the worship of this night is 83 years and four months.  Laylatul Qadr is very important in Ramadan because this is the only night that if we do good deeds,  Allah will reward us abundantly. Similarly, Lailatul-Qadr is much better than the other days and nights of Ramadan. This is the major night that serves as our spiritual and iman booster.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we just say the ninth month of the Islamic calendar is not the month of rest. Many people consider Ramadan Kareem only as a means of rest, eating, and drinking, in which they eat various foods in Suhoor and Iftar, but Ramadan is not for eating, because Ramadan is the month for worship, so we should pray to Allah at the time of Suhoor and Iftar. 

We Should Pray for our loved ones, for our elders who have died, and for Muslims who are being oppressed. In this Ramadan Mubarak, take care of your close relatives and neighbors as much as you can and Strive Struggle to please Allah swt during this sacred month.