THE Guyana Islamic Forum for Education, Peace and Religious Solidarity extends to the nation of Guyana and all Muslims a most blessed and joy filled Eid Mubarak.

Fasting for not one, two or three days, but day after day for thirty days is extraordinary. It is a magnificent love affair between the Creator and the Created. The more than one billion Muslims in the world observe this day with sincere expectations and love for it is the will and command of the Almighty. The command which causes the Muslims to do without potent and approved foods, drinks and relations as sanctioned by the Almighty Creator Allah – Lord of the Worlds, out of the Ramadan. But during the month of intense heat and fire (Ramadan), Man is commanded to deny himself. To exert himself more in prayers, early mornings, late at nights in addition to the five compulsory prayers daily. To give to Muslims and Islamic Propagation the Zakaat, and to be charitable to non-Muslims and all of mankind, even the animals and the environment. He has to pay year after year on the same wealth and property

There is truly a mighty and grand purpose in all of this. The faster experiences true hunger, and only one who fasts like the Muslims, doing without water and foods all day long, understands hunger, feel the pangs of starvation, the burning of the raging heat in the stomach and the throat, as those in severe poverty. This brings out in Him great humility and indeed, great humanity, for he can relate to starvation, and will share more and more to those in need.

The constancy of the fast, the constant recitals of Quran, and the physical form of Islamic Prayers, make the faster robust and dynamic, but more than that, he has fasted as the great prophets of all, like Moses, like Abraham, Noah, the mystical master Jesus Christ and our beloved prophet Muhammad, May Allah Be Pleased with them all, therefore, He/She the faster become divine like the Prophets and Seers, true vice-gerents of Allah on the earth. Like the Prophets they have imbibed the Divine, he has been touched with the Divine, and if practiced could divinely heal mankind of mental and physical distresses, even heal the problems in the environment, by his touch and thought and recitations of the Mystical Verses and chapters of the Glorious Quran.

The Quran teaches us: “That fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you that you may achieve taqwa.”

God Almighty is the master physician, and he did not merely order, recommend or instruct Fasting, he has prescribed it, for it is good for the faster himself, but even better yet, for the community and the world. His prayers and sacrifices heal the world, and he himself becomes a healer. He is closer to his Lord, who listens and will answer his petition and prayers for those in need.

May Allah be blessed with us and may he accept our fast and make us great and beloved Leaders in our communities and the world at large A Muslim can never go to bed knowing his neighbor is hungry. This is part of the constitution of Islam in service to mankind.
Eid Mubarak! Eid Mubarak! Eid Mubarak.!
Khuda Hafiz
HAJI ROSHAN KHAN