RAMADAN / IFTAR
Iftar
When the month of Ramadan-i Sharif arrives, fasting on increasingly hot days is one of the most sublime moments of patience and worship. However, the month of Ramadan gains meaning not only through hunger and thirst, but also through solidarity and cooperation.
Sharing Tables
Iftar events are one of the most beautiful examples of cooperation during Ramadan-i Sharif. Thanks to these events, those in need become guests at iftar tables and experience the spiritual atmosphere of the month of Ramadan-i Sharif within a warm family environment.
Ramadan-i Sharif
and Religious Generosity
Ramadan-i Sharif and Religious Generosity
Iftar time means the end of the period during which Muslims must refrain from eating throughout the day during Ramadan. This moment is usually determined by the time of the evening prayer. Iftar time is a special time when families come together, prayers are said, and permission is given to eat and drink by breaking the fast.
Sahur is the final time for consuming food and drink carried out just before starting the fast in the month of Ramadan. Sahur is performed immediately before the beginning of the fasting time known as imsak. Imsak time is the last moments before sunrise, and the fast begins after imsak time. Muslims fast throughout the day by having sahur before imsak time. Sahur helps fasting individuals maintain their energy throughout the day.
In order to calculate the prayer times of a place, the results of the “observed value” consistent with jurisprudential measures are taken as the basis, not “astronomical values.” For example, for the rising and setting of the sun, the “observed rising and setting” at the highest inhabited place in a town is the basis, not the “astronomical rising and setting.” Values obtained solely by calculating astronomical values cannot meet jurisprudential values due to many factors such as altitude and terrain width that cause them to deviate. For this reason, in order to secure the boundaries of prayer times, Islamic scholars have taken some necessary measures. These measures and corrections are called “temkin” (precautionary time). Temkin is not a correction made just to be more cautious, but a correction that is jurisprudentially necessary. After these corrections, the resulting values become consistent with jurisprudential measures. Therefore, it is necessary to use precautionary (temkinli) times.
Enes bin Malik (r.a.) narrated: Hazrat Zeyd bin Thabit (r.a.) said: We had sahur with the Prophet (s.a.v.). Then he stood for the morning prayer. I asked Zeyd: “How much time was there between sahur and the adhan?” Hazrat Zeyd said, “Enough to recite fifty verses.” (In the Translation of Sahih-i Bukhari Mukhtasari Tajrid-i Sarih, it is written that the time to recite fifty verses is 18 minutes; vol. 6, pp. 268-269)
From this, the importance of observing temkin is understood.
Iftar aid for those in need is 4,000 ₺, and sahur aid is 2,000 ₺.
