The Holy Month of Ramadan has always held a special occasion for people who observe it. This Ramadan will be the second one we observe alongside a still active global pandemic. Although the spirit of it remains very much the same, the way we celebrate and connect has changed, family gatherings and meeting up at a friend’s house during Ramadan is unlikely until authorities confirm that public gatherings are safe again.
The holy month is about much more than abstaining from food and drink from dawn to dusk. Individuals can also take the opportunity to refresh their minds from the challenges amid the pandemic and cleanse not just their internal life but their external one too.
To welcome Ramadan in the most suitable way possible and to enjoy the spiritual reflection and charitable deeds, there are a few things you should start doing to prepare your household for the holy month. Blueair, the leading provider of air purification solutions has shared 5 tips for celebrating Ramadan 2022.
1. Decorate your home and highlight your homemade touches!
Sprucing up your home interior will create a warmer environment to welcome the holy month. As lanterns are traditionally used to welcome Ramadan in many Muslim countries, using your lanterns, electric or string lights is always a good start for the decoration. It’s also good to go a step further and put Ramadan LED stars, signs, and banners on your walls, doors, and gardens. If you have kids, it may be a nice touch to create personalised banners, lamps, labels, decorated alphabets, and so on together as a weekend activity. A great way to encourage good deeds in young children is to have them make inspiring hadith posters related to Ramadan.
2. Prepare a Ramadan Menu
Ramadan is once a year so don’t waste your time on thinking and searching everyday about the meal that you will prepare for the day, instead use it for your own spiritual moments and charitable activities. Sit down with your family and work out a menu which you can rotate each week. Have some rules like less fry foods and junk food to break the fast with. Try and keep it healthy, nutritional and light. Once you come to an agreement, you can go to grocery shopping beforehand, ensuring you have the ingredients you need in the household and not at the supermarket. Divide tasks and encourage everyone to help by cooking and grocery shopping, let’s all think of our parents please! they are also fasting.
3. Cleanse the air in your indoor environment
Candles are very commonly used during Ramadan, however what we often don’t consider is that they can be a cause for air pollution in your home by releasing dangerous particles into the air you’re breathing. One solution to help you happily coexist with candles is to purify your indoor air with an air purifier.
DustMagnet™ the latest air purifier from Blueair, has been uniquely designed to catch airborne dust before it settles on floors and surfaces. Using Blueair’s advanced technologies, DustMagnet™ delivers increased clean air in a slick Scandinavian design that blends into the home like any other furniture. Thanks to a powerful airflow in combination with two positively charged pre-filters, airborne dust is captured and removed, resulting in less time spent dusting and vacuuming.
4. Make a dedicated place of worship
In order to have a focus time and to be fully present to your worship, it’s nice to create an area in your home dedicated to just that. Add a small table where you can put a Quran and religious books to spend some time reading and disconnecting from everything. Another good item to include is a religious quiz lists where you can print them and regroup after Iftar with your family and kids for 30 minutes to challenge their knowledge and use the time as an exercise to know more about Ramadan, prophet and some other religious facts and information.
5. Think of others! Donate and join social distance charitable activities
COVID-19 has brought about many changes to Ramadan, however there are still ways which allow us doing the same things but alternatively. Do good deeds anonymously, you can donate groceries over social media, SMS your iftar donation, sponsor a child online, feed the birds by leaving some food and fresh water outside for them, in addition buy a money box for your children and encourage them to give to charity. Try to connect on social media with your family and friends and join together on call and video calls throughout the month.
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