Why is it that recitations of Quran performed each night during Ramadan?”
Islam’s holy month of Ramadan starts today, and for Muslims like Ahmed Noor, that means spending lots of time with the good book – the Quran. Like the Bible for Christians, there is no other book for Muslims as meaningful as the Quran. According to Islam, the text contains the divine revelations received by Prophet Muhammad via the angel Gabriel. The revelations began during the month of Ramadan, which is why the text is read during the annual holiday. Yet reading the entire Quran, which has more than 100 chapters and 6,000 verses, can be a longish project. Some editions break the text into 30 sections, one for each day of Ramadan.
