President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Muslims in the country to use the Ramadan fasting season “to project the best and finest virtues of Islam by personal conduct, and not precept.”
The President gave the charge in his goodwill message to mark the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, President Buhari says “let us use this opportunity to put the best teachings of Islam into practice, such as kindness and the love of humanity.”
According to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, Wednesday evening, the President said “this is an occasion for deep reflection and greater fear of Allah and avoidance of all evils that harm humanity.”
He said that “the Ramadan is characterised by abstention from food and drinks from dawn to dusk, which brings both the rich and poor to share the experience of hunger together, thereby strengthening the bonds between haves and have-nots.”
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