Ramadan Decorations brings joy and happiness to the hearts of all family members.

Al-Anbat - Shatha Hatamleh

Translated by - Raneem Alhalawani

With the arrival of the blessed month of Ramadan, as a generous guest for Muslims, the season of joy begins with fasting and decorating homes and streets by hanging lanterns and decorative ropes on windows or homes entrances to bring joy, pleasure to the hearts of all family members.

On this, Professor of Sociology, Dr. Hussein Al-Khuzai, said that hanging decorations and celebrating the month of Ramadan encourages children to love this holy month and longs them to wait for Ramadan and do all that is required in this month of worship, transactions and social solidarity, adding that the colors and lighting symbolize religious matters and Quranic verses, and a message to celebrate the month of Ramadan.

Al-Khuza’i stated that Ramadan decorations reflect the extent to which children are able to buy decorations appropriate to their tastes and teach them the skill and art of buying, taste and good choice because it is a life skill that they must learn, especially since each child chooses certain decorations and places them at home, whether in his room or on the windowsills, and he called on parents to allow their children to choose.

And about the ruling on decorating homes to receive Ramadan, the professor of Islamic culture at the University of Science and Technology, Dr. Muhammad Al-Mastrihi, said: The eminent scholars have agreed that the basic principle with regard to things is that they are permissible unless there is a legal text that prohibits them, and the issue of decorating homes is a permissible matter, and there is nothing wrong with decorating homes, noting that there are controls in decorating homes in Ramadan, including that a person sees that hanging adornments are a normal matter and not a devotional or belief.

He called for care not to be wasted and extravagant in buying these decorations, because wasting what you doesn't benefit from it is forbidden by Sharia, he stressed that the adornment should be free of taboos and violations of Sharia, such as the embodiment of spirits, and that it be free of forbidden musical instruments, and not to block the road and harm people with these decorations, so it become harmful and forbidden.

He added that there is nothing wrong with decorating mosques because this act is permissible, but the jurists stipulated that the worshipers should not be distracted by adornments.

He explained that there are ways to receive the blessed month of Ramadan, including asking God that we reach Ramadan with health, wellness, activity, joy and pleasure at the arrival of the month, good planning to benefit from Ramadan, and determination to strive hard in obedience and worship, adding that it is necessary to learn the provisions of fasting, read some books and listen to some lectures so that he understands the provisions of fasting and welcome Ramadan with repentance to God.

He added that it is necessary to feel the virtue of Ramadan and its great reward in order to distinguish between customs and worship, and to avoid wasting its days by sleeping and its nights during the forbidden awaking, and the fasting person breaks his fast until the wages increase, and he recites the Qur’an a lot, which reflects on its meanings, preserves the tongue and the rest of the limbs, and treats people well, and prays a lot for it is answered in Ramadan, and taking care of the last ten days of Ramadan, because Laylat Al Qadr is better than a thousand months, whoever realized it had a bountiful reward from God and answered invitations.

Hala Al-Mahmoud said that buying Ramadan decorations has become one of the Ramadan habits that we are accustomed to to receive the dear guest, which is the month of Ramadan, by purchasing the crescent and other forms to decorate the house.

She added that decorating the month of Ramadan brings joy and happiness to our children, as it spreads the atmosphere of joy and love by meeting daily for breakfast, suhoor and family meal after Iftar in an atmosphere different from the rest of the months, as family members are at work, it is difficult for them to meet on a specific date.