{"id":15182,"date":"2025-05-28T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:55:17","slug":"why-is-ramadan-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/why-is-ramadan-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ramadan celebrated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"radix-:r2s:\" class=\"overflow-hidden text-sm data-[state=closed]:animate-accordion-up data-[state=open]:animate-accordion-down\" role=\"region\" data-state=\"open\" aria-labelledby=\"radix-:r2r:\" data-orientation=\"vertical\">\n<div class=\"pb-4 pt-0 prose prose-sm prose-a:font-semibold prose-a:underline prose-a:decoration-carrot-500\">\n<p>God says in the Qur\u2019an,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRamadan is the month in which the Qur\u2019an was revealed, as guidance for humanity\u2026so whoever of you witnesses the month should fast it.\u201d<\/em> [2:185]<\/p>\n<p>Muslims therefore celebrate Ramadan by ritually fasting for the entire month in gratitude to God for His final revelation. By restricting the body\u2019s appetites during daylight hours, believers rejuvenate their spirituality, repair their religious conscience, and cultivate their devotion to God. This is the most significant objective of the fast: restoring the centrality of God in our lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God says in the Qur\u2019an, \u201cRamadan is the month in which the Qur\u2019an was revealed, as guidance for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15183,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions\/15183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}