63 - The special status of the month of Ramadan

عن أبي هُرَيرةَ رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ:  «مَن صام رَمَضَانَ إيمانًا واحتسابًا، غُفِرَ له ما تَقَدَّم من ذَنْبه، ومَن قام ليلةَ القَدر إيمانًا واحتسابًا، غُفِر له ما تقدَّم من ذَنْبه». 

وعن أبي هُريرةَ رضي الله عنه أيضًا، أن النبيَّ ﷺ قال:  «مَن قام رمضانَ إيمانًا واحتسابًا، غُفِرَ له ما تقدَّم من ذَنْبه».


Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: 

1. Whoever fasts the month of Ramadan, out of faith and with dedication, shall have his past sins forgiven,  2. and whoever spends the Night of Power in worship, out of faith and with dedication, shall have his past sins forgiven.

Related by al-Bukhari, 1901; Muslim, [760]. 

Abu Hurayrah also narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: 

3. Whoever attends to night worship during Ramadan, out of faith and with dedication, shall have his past sins forgiven.

Related by al-Bukhari, 37; Muslim, . [759]


Related Quranic Verses

Believers, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may be God-fearing. (183) [Fast] on a certain number of days. But whoever of you is ill, or on a journey, shall fast instead the same number of days later on. Those who find fasting a strain too hard to bear may compensate for it by feeding a needy person. He who does good of his own account does himself good thereby. For to fast is to do good to yourselves, if you only knew it. (184) It was in the month of Ramadan that the Qur’an was revealed: a guidance for mankind and a self-evident proof of that guidance and a standard to distinguish right from wrong. Therefore, whoever of you is present in that month shall fast throughout the month; but he who is ill or on a journey shall fast instead the same number of days later on. God desires that you have ease. He does not desire that you be afflicted with hardship. You are, however, required to complete the necessary number of days and to extol and glorify God for having guided you aright and to tender your thanks.

(2: 183-185)

Ḥā. Mīm. (1) By the Book that makes things clear! (2) We have bestowed it from on high on a blessed night; for, indeed, We have always sent warnings. (3) On that night every matter of wisdom is made clear.

(44: 1-4)

From on high have We bestowed it [the Qur’an] on the Night of Power. (1) Would that you knew what the Night of Power is! (2) The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. (3) On that night the angels and the Spirit by their Lord's leave descend with all His decrees. (4) That night is peace, till the break of dawn.

(97: 1-5)


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