“Hangery” with a Purpose

My Remedial Ramadan Course, Online

How does one prepare for Ramadan? If you had asked me a few weeks ago I would not have said through an online seminar.

But my cousin, much younger and cooler than I, sent me an invite on Facebook entitled, “Ramadan Prep Course: How to Control Your Nafs.” Nafs is the Arabic word for psyche or ego. During the month of Ramadan, which starts at the beginning of August this year, Muslims around the world will spend 30 days trying to control their wants and desires. They will wake up at dawn …