On the doors of Ramadan
On the occasion of Ramadan coming and the conclusion of the Summer Cultural Season, Dr. Omar Abdel Kafy, the cultural consultant of H. H. Sheikh Juma Al Majid, delivered a lecture entitled “ on the doors of Ramadanâ€‌ attended by a huge attendance from inside and outside the center, he spoke about Ramadan’s concepts and the state of ancestors in receiving Ramadan in comparison with ours nowadays .
They were involved in worship and obedience and decreased food and sleeping, while now we increase food and its kinds, and become more laziness and indolence.
Some give bad impression about fasting and fasters such as one should be nervous, lazy and workless under the pretense that he is a faster.
Ramadan is the month of calmness and peacefulness, it is a great chance to give up bad habits, the smoker who says before Ramadan that he cannot stop smoking, now he can do it for more than 15 hours.
Dr. Omar Abdel Kafy spoke about the difference of the Arab Islamic nation in sighting Ramadan’s moon and this difference began before four centuries, while people were fasting together in the first ten centuries.
At the end of the lecture, Dr. Omar concentrated to recite the Holy Koran and understanding it, and we should have a planned program for worship and obedience in Ramadan.