{"id":464025,"date":"2011-07-19T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/nigeria-muslims-urged-to-start-ramadan-preparations\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:11:31","slug":"nigeria-muslims-urged-to-start-ramadan-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/nigeria-muslims-urged-to-start-ramadan-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Muslims Urged to Start Ramadan Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.4373878723\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbas Jimoh<\/p>\n<p>19 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Muslims across Nigeria have been advised to begin preparation for the Muslim&#8217;s Holy month of Ramadan, which comes up in two weeks time.<\/p>\n<p>The Naibul Ameer (vice -president), Da&#8217;wah of The Muslim Congress (TMC), Imam Ismail Busari, who gave the advice yesterday in Abuja at the 1432 (2011) pre-Ramadan Seminar, jointly organised by The Fiqh Forum (TFF), TMC and Al-Muminat, advised that preparation for the month is one of the pillars of fasting itself. He listed intention to observe the fast for Allahs&#8217; sake, going to Umrah (lesser hajj) during the month, planning financially, physical fitness, administratively and logistically among others, as part of activities that enhances one&#8217;s reward during the period.<\/p>\n<p>He also reminded Muslims to be fervent in their prayers to Allah and reminded them of some of Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s (SAW) prayers, &#8220;Allahumo Barik Lana fii Rajab, wa Sha&#8217;aban, wa balig naa Ramadan&#8221; (May Allah blesses us in Rajab and Sha&#8217;aban and make us alive and prosperous in Ramadan).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107190693.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Muslims Urged to Start Ramadan Preparations\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Muslims Urged to Start Ramadan Preparations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Abbas Jimoh 19 July 2011 Muslims across Nigeria have been advised to begin preparation for the Muslim&#8217;s Holy month of Ramadan, which comes up in two weeks time. The Naibul Ameer (vice -president), Da&#8217;wah of The Muslim Congress (TMC), Imam Ismail Busari, who gave the advice yesterday in Abuja at the 1432 (2011) pre-Ramadan Seminar, jointly organised by The Fiqh Forum (TFF), TMC and Al-Muminat, advised that preparation for the month is one of the pillars of fasting itself. He listed intention to observe the fast for Allahs&#8217; sake, going to Umrah (lesser hajj) during the month, planning financially, physical fitness, administratively and logistically among others, as part of activities that enhances one&#8217;s reward during the period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Muslims Urged to Start Ramadan Preparations - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/nigeria-muslims-urged-to-start-ramadan-preparations\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Muslims Urged to Start Ramadan Preparations - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Abbas Jimoh 19 July 2011 Muslims across Nigeria have been advised to begin preparation for the Muslim&#039;s Holy month of Ramadan, which comes up in two weeks time. 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