Ramazon is a month of soul and flesh purification, piety and good behaviour. This is a brief formulation of thirty days in a year when a Muslims ought to hold a fast beginning daily with dawn and finishing with sunset. If to enumerate what is allowed and not allowed during the holy month one would have to use several notebooks for writing down, that's why they say in brief: it is the time of good deeds, first of all, prayers (names), offerings for the poor, refusal from foul language, deceit and lie, from everything what may hurt your fellow. It is a month of human will trial, a month of abstinence from unseemly actions.
As history testifies, for the first time Ramazon was celebrated sweepingly in the second year of hhijra being equal to the year of 624 A.D. It was that very month when Allah vouchsafed Muslims his first message. Subsequently, in the course of 23 years the Almighty was sending revelations from Heavens through his envoy apostle Jabrail, conveyed to Muslims further by prophet Mohammed.
The significance of the great fast people should observe in the holy month of Ramazon is no in hunger and thirst. Abstinence from bread and water is the strongest trial bound to steel the spirit of people. Because there is no greater vice for man than pursuing his own interests among which eating comes first. A man who can overcome thirst and hunger is able to follow more rigid rules of life aimed at creation of the good. And he/she must always keep it in mind. Reading of prayers - that of names - serves as a reminder about your duty, its essence again lies in good deeds. The staff and staple of Ramazon prayers is tarobeh. It is peculiar prayer. It is read usually during fast. On these days a mosque becomes not only a place for religious rites, they serve also as a specific enlightening center. Those Muslims who only commence to hold a fast join others who commit names regularly in the mosque. Thus they are enabled to elevate their knowledge of Islam, to considerable their belief in Allah. Quoting Mirzo Ubaidullo Kalonzoda, one of the leaders of the Board of ulems from Sughd viloyat of Tajikistan, prohibition for these or those actions is conventional. Its essence is reduced to making people stop to use foul language, insult one another, dissemble, be at enmity, but on the contrary - they ought to make friends, forgive offences, help one another and be mindful of others, care about old individuals, these stricken with diseases, the deserted, display mercy to those who are weaker. The month of Ramazon is the time of sins expiation. It is just then when you expiate your sins you attain moral purification of soul and flesh.
Such element as charity is very important - it is a part of good deeds done by Muslims. They may be committed all the time but in the period of Ramazon they are obligatory for those who enjoy welfare. The importance of charity enhances on the holy month termination crowned with the three-days-holiday called Idi Fitr. On the first day after the fast people wear holiday attires and go to the mosque early in the morning to read festive names together with their fellows-Muslims; the ceremony announcing the end of the fast. After that people attend their ill fellows, dearest and nearest, congratulate them on the holiday. Usually on this morning people feel more hale and hearty, relief descends upon them. It may be imputed to having purified from sins whose heaviness oppresses human beings.
Through principal holidays are still ahead, for Muslims the holy month coming is a kind of triumph in itself. These days we shouldn't darken the spirits of other people with ascertainments of the type "who is right and who is wrong". However, I have to speak on the problem agitating many Muslims of Tajikistan not for the first year. This year Ramazon began for them a day earlier than in Russia. It may happen so again that the clergy of Russia will expose itself as being more knowledgeable if the holiday days in Russia coincide with the festivities in Mecca, of course.