{"id":25873,"date":"2016-06-06T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/muslims-asked-to-embrace-ramadan-with-holiness\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T09:10:52","slug":"muslims-asked-to-embrace-ramadan-with-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/muslims-asked-to-embrace-ramadan-with-holiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims asked to embrace Ramadan with holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The international Muslim community has started a one month Ramadan period, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar during which strict fasting is observed from dawn to dusk.}<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda counts almost 2,000,000 Muslims. The new Mufti of in Rwanda , Sheikh Salim Hitimana says that muslims should behave like the prophet Muhammad would behave in Ramadan period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis holy month of Ramadan is a fasting offered as a gift of Allah. I advise muslims to act like the prophet Muhammad would behave in similar period of Ramadan,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cHe would wake up his family and pray the whole night until the night separates from the morning as a way of staying close to Allah,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mufti Sheikh Salim says that this period should be a time for muslims to embrace good behaviors and approach God keeping themselves away from bad acts. <\/p>\n<p>The fasting for muslims dates back 1435 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The international Muslim community has started a one month Ramadan period, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar during which strict fasting is observed from dawn to dusk.} Rwanda counts almost 2,000,000 Muslims. The new Mufti of in Rwanda , Sheikh Salim Hitimana says that muslims should behave like the prophet Muhammad would behave in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}