Talk:Fasting during Ramadan

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meaning of name Ramadan

(The following should have been a proper topic. It is now. Nick Levinson (talk) 21:21, 31 August 2019 (UTC))

What is the Meaning of Ramadon? - Anon

See Ramadan. --Striver 16:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Title

Shouldn't this title be Fast of Ramadan? Nobody knows it as Sawm. Cuñado - Talk 23:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree, rename it to Fast of Ramadan--Striver 03:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Ummah- Muslim community

Ummah- Muslim community

one of the purposes of fasting is bringing the ummah together

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.34.154 (talk) 10:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Quality

This article is written in a non-objective ("It is an act that cleanses one's mind, body, and soul from the spiritual and physical impurities of this world"; "And it is an act that satiates the hungry soul for its eagerness to please the Lord of the Worlds") and non-lexicographic ("Allah All-Mighty"; "(Allah be pleased with him)"; "(Allah bless him and give him peace)"; " According to the Sacred Law") manner. Moreover, it contains grammatical ("deeply personal worship") and logical ("the word fasting in the Arabic language means[...]") flaws.

Short, it doesn't hold up to Wikipedia standards and considering that it is also a duplicate of Sawm, I vote it be deleted. 2001:67C:20A0:B102:D909:48EA:3A57:DB73 (talk) 18:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

I too agree that this article is unnecessary and should be deleted. AstroLynx (talk) 14:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Sawm which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 17:45, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

hot climes

Is there an exception for Ramadan allowing daytime drinking of water if living in a hot climate, such as near a desert? Healthwise, a person who spends all day in a desert exerting themself should consume about 2 gallons of water a day, spread out over all the waking hours, so, even where nights are long, nighttime drinking is not enough for health. Does Ramadan accommodate this? Nick Levinson (talk) 21:38, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Merge into Ramadan

This article should probably be merged into Ramadan. We currently have three articles:

• Ramadan (calendar month)
• Ramadan
• Fasting during Ramadan

The last two articles basically deal with the same topic.VR _talk 23:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Health effects

The "Health effects" section was significantly changed on 17 April last year. Before the change, it depicted Ramadan fasting as bad, now it depicts as good (before and after).

The series of edits that accomplished this change came from the same IP and appear to be of variable quality. This edit, for example, is good (though the edit summary betrays a rather obvious bias), this is also correct (we shouldn't cite newspaper articles for such claims), and so is this (the claim removed was WP:OR). On the other hand, this edit removed content that was supported by at least some of the sources cited, while this was blatantly wrong (the ref said fasting was safe for healthy people and certain groups of diabetics; the IP changed the text to say that fasting was healthy, and that it was beneficial to diabetics).

I'm tempted to blank-revert the whole series of edits, but that will replace a bad situation with one that's only slightly less bad. Any more constructive suggestions? – Uanfala (talk) 10:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)