Session 1: Understanding the Spirit of Fasting

• Spiritual Life in Our Activities
• Linguistic Analysis of Ramadan and Saum
• The Command to Fast in Surah Baqarah
• Acting For the Sake of Allah
• Celebrating the Heart, not the Nafs

Session 2: The Virtues of Ramadan and Self-Purification

• Ramadan the Guest
• Nearness to Allah and the Night of Power
• The Meaning of the Chaining of the Devils
• Insight into the State of our Soul
• The Opening of the Gates of Paradise
• Testimony of Fasting
• Fasting is For Me
• Removing Harshness
• Causes of Hardening of the Heart

Session 3: Intelligence and Moderation in Eating

• Condition of the Modern World
• ‘Aql Vs. Intelligence
• Eating to Satiation
• Moderation in Eating
• The Eating Habits of the Earlier Generations
• Wiswaas and Eating
• Gardens of Hunger

Session 4: Merits of Devotional Abstinence

• Devotional Abstinence
• Are We Interested in Wilayah?
• Silence and Keeping Away From Sins
• Answering of Our Supplications
• Discovering the Greatest Name of Allah
• Excesses in Eating
• How Much Should We Eat?

Session 5: Reaching the Higher Levels of Fasting

• Fasting of the Senses and Limbs
• Essence of Fasting
• Be Ihsaan Oriented
• To Give Instead of To Require
• Fasting of the Heart
• The Sunnah of the Quloob

Session 6: Connecting to the External Dimensions of the Fast

• The Obligation of Fasting
• The Intention
• The Conditions for Obligation of Fasting
• Concessions Not to Fast
• The Wisdom of Concessions
• Fidya
• The Merits of Suhoor
• On Hastening Iftaar
• Increasing Supplication and Generosity
• A Diet of Qur’an
• Being the Generous Host and a Good Guest During Ramadan
• The Reward for Those Who Cannot Fast
• Fasting in Shawwal
• On Visitors to the Masjid During Ramadan