Ramadan

Salamualikum wa Rahma tullahi wa barakatuhuh[hope I spelled it right back there :)]
Ramadan, Inshallah, is due to arrive soon.
How many feel,"Aww, "no food time"?
How many feel, "Yes! The blessed month of opportunity?"
By the end of this topic(which will be in multiple posts), I hope Inshallah we all will end up sincerely feeling the second choice.
As we all should know, Fasting(in Ramadan) is an obligatory act, and is one of the five pillars of Islam.
"...whoever witnesses the Month of Ramadan should fast through it..." Q(2:185)

In this blessed month, Allah(SWT) is even more generous with his bestowment of good deeds.

The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) addressed his companions on the last day of Sha`ban, saying, "Oh people! A great month has come over you; a blessed month; a month in which is a night better than a thousand months; month in which Allah has made it compulsory upon you to fast by day, and voluntary to pray by night. Whoever draws nearer (to Allah) by performing any of the (optional) good deeds in (this month) shall receive the same reward as performing an obligatory deed at any other time, and whoever discharges an obligatory deed in (this month) shall receive the reward of performing seventy obligations at any other time. It is the month of patience, and the reward of patience is Heaven. It is the month of charity, and a month in which a believer's sustenance is increased. Whoever gives food to a fasting person to break his fast, shall have his sins forgiven, and he will be saved from the Fire of Hell, and he shall have the same reward as the fasting person, without his reward being diminished at all." [Narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah]

Narrated Abu Huraira(r.a): The Prophet said:"... whoever fasts during Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven." (Sahih Al-Bukhari).

Wow. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Subhanallah. One of the many things to reflect upon in Ramadan is the mercy of Allah(SWT). See all these opportunities, all these chances to be forgiven, all these chances to gain more good deeds?