The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has wished fruitful fasting to Ghanaian Muslims and across the globe on commencement of the Holy month of Ramadan.
According to the party, a Muslim through fasting, experiences hunger and thirst, and sympathizes with those who have little to eat and drink every day through alms-giving in order to fully benefit from the bountiful blessings of the Holy Month.
General Secretary, John Boadu, in a release observed that this year’s Ramadan, just like last year is being marked at a time the world is facing its biggest public health crisis occasioned by the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus, arguably the biggest existential threat to the human race.
Ramadan, he said, is a period within the Islamic calendar that Muslims all over the world observe Fasting in accordance with the dictates of the Holy Qur’an and the Islamic faith and quoted from Quran Chapter 2:183, “ O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous.” .
“ This period is characterized by alms-giving and significant supplication to Almighty Allah. Ramadan also happens to be the Month in which the Holy Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) and so is the most important and blessed month of the Islamic year.”
“Owing to this, Muslims are having to make significant adjustments to the traditional ways of marking the Ramadan Fast some of which are at the heart of Ramadan festivities.”
“Much as Ghana has made significant gains in our Covid-19 fight, we are still not entirely out of the woods yet,” the release said.
The party also called on Muslims living in Ghana to use the special occasion to pray for the country’s leaders, government and the state to overcome all the ills plaguing society and to put the country on the path of sustained growth and prosperity.
“May the month of Ramadan, which is the most blessed month in the year be that month that the world finds complete solace in this period of global health crisis.”
“Once again, RAMADAN MUBARAK and may Almighty Allah accept our Fast and grant us Jannatul Firdaus,” he added.
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