What is Ramadan all about?

Answer 1

The fourth pillar of Islam which is fasting is practiced during the month of Ramadan. Ramadan is derived from an an Arabic word for intense heat and sun-scorched ground. (in Arabic: رمضان, Ramaḍān) – or Ramzan in several countries – and it is the ninth month of the Islamic (Hijri) calendar, established in the year 638. It is considered the most venerated, blessed and spiritually-beneficial month of the Islamic year. Prayers, fasting, charity, and self-accountability are especially stressed at this time; religious observances associated with Ramadan are kept throughout the month. God prescribes daily fasting for all able, adult Muslims during the whole month of Ramadan, beginning with the sighting of the new moon.

Answer 2

To the person before me: Fasting is not one of the 5 pillars of Islam. The five pillars of Islam are 1.Monotheism 2.Justice of God 3.Prophethood 4.Imamat 5.Resurrection day
And fasting is one of the 10 secondary principals of religion.

BUT to answer your question...
Ramadan is a holy month for Muslims because the Quran was sent on one night in Ramadan which is known as Ghadr.
Also Ramadan teaches Muslims many lessons. Such as feeling how the poor live, this will increase charities. Another thing is that we would learn how to be patient, because while we are fasting not only we are not allowed to eat and drink from sunrise to sunset but we are not allowed to speak behind anyones back, swear, curse, lie, etc. In one word we learn how to control our temptations.
Otherwise our fasting wouldn't be acceptable!
And by doing all these for one whole month we could get used to it and continue doing it for the rest of our lives. This would be ideal because then no one would be lying, cheating, swearing, backstabbing, etc!

Answer 3

It is about fasting.

Your fast from food, water, swearing, sex, fighting, etc. from sunrise to sunset for 30 days.

It is mainly a time of forgiveness.

If you go the thirty days and you are truly sorry for all you have done in the past year, then you are forgiven for all minor sinns you have done since the last Ramadan.

During this time, praying, reading Qur'an, and doing good deads gives you 70 times the reward that you would recieve in any other month. Bad deads are also punished 70 times harsher. It makes it easy to be good for that month, so that you get in the habit of doing good. Then, when the month ends, and the Holiday of "the breaking of the fast," a day during which you eat a lot and people give gifts, ends, people come out a lot better than they were before Ramadan.

I hope that helped.

Answer 4

Basically Muslims aren't allowed to eat or drink between sunrise and sunset each day. It's similar to Lent in theory.