How to Prepare for Ramadan: 1. Sincere repentance 2. Du’a (supplication) 3. Rejoicing at the approach of the blessed month 4. Discharging the duty of any outstanding obligatory fasts 5. Seeking knowledge 6. Hastening to complete any tasks that may distract you from doing acts of worship. 7. Sitting with one’s family members to tell them of the rulings on fasting. 8. Preparing some books to read 9. Fasting some of the month of Sha’ban 10. Reading Quran

Muslims fast the month of Ramadan because Allah has commanded them to do so. Therefore, Muslims worship Allah through fasting which is beloved to Allah and which He has enjoined upon us.

Allah singled out fasting for Himself from all other good deeds, because of its honoured status before Him, because He loves it and because it is a demonstration of sincerity towards Him, as it is a secret between a person and his Lord, which no one can see except Allah.

The fast of one who does not pray is not valid and is not accepted, because the one who does not pray is a disbeliever and an apostate.