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It's going to come very soon. Guess what? It's here already. We're started. The first fast in most parts of the world, Subhanallah.

Now, why do people have different days of fasting? You mustn't worry too much about that because if they did not see the moon, they won't fast.

And if they saw the moon, then they will fast. And sometimes if they're following another country, they may fast with that country.

And sometimes if they're not following any country and they're doing it themselves, then they will do it that way.

So it's not a big problem. It does not mean that I don't like you or I don't love you if I don't fast on the same day as you.

Or if I don't have Eid on the same day as you.

That's point number one because many children have asked me, why do Muslims sometimes not fast on the same day?

Well, I'd love them too. But you know, it's okay. It's fine. If you didn't see the moon, that's you. Subhanallah.

Now, my beloved children, I'm so excited to have embarked on this journey of giving you a short lesson and a little bit of something to take back to think about every day in Shah Allah.

So the first thing I said was about the moon and why people have differences. I've given you a simple explanation.

Now, what is the month of Ramadan? The month of Ramadan is a gift from Allah. It's a month wherein which Muslims become more conscious of many things.

Firstly, they don't eat and drink during the daylight hours from what is known as dawn to dusk.

Dawn is the beginning time of the first prayer known as Fajr. So you know there are five prayers in the day. Fajr, which is before sunrise,

the Lord which is just after the zenith, early afternoon, ashr is late afternoon, then we have Maghrib which is immediately after sunset and we have Isha which is a little bit after that, like perhaps one and a half to two hours after sunset in most cases.

So it's the late night prayer. So the fasting starts right at the beginning. Subhanallah, the fasting starts at the beginning before Fajr.

When the adana Fajr goes, you stop eating. Subhanallah, you stop drinking. Subhanallah for the sake of Allah and it's good to get up very early before that and have a small meal.

A little meal that's full of that which is rich in many nutrients and perhaps what is called low GI. That means you know you have grains and things that digest slowly through the day.

Subhanallah is good. I usually have a few dates, a banana, a little bit of milk maybe oats sometimes and a cup of tea with some water. And I don't have so much because when I, if I eat a lot in that early meal known as so whole, some people call it Sahari.

If I eat a lot, I feel hungry very quickly because my stomach starts working with all the enzymes and everything is trying to digest what's happening. So I feel hungry very early. So I just have a light meal at that time.

And then Subhanallah, you do your Salat al Fajr and you might want to go to bed depending on where you are for a little while.

You might have school to go to and you must be a better person in Ramadan. So we stay away from food and drink and from bad language from dawn to dusk.

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