This book was formaly published some fifteen years ago with the title 'The Strategic Importance of the Fast of Ramadan and Isra and Miraj'. Sheikh have separated the two topics and are publishing them as two separate books.
While the majority of Muslims, the world over, observe the compulsory fast of Ramadan, we find in this age the unique phenomenon of large numbers of Mulims who do not fast. When we inquire into this phenomenon what we find is that it has emerged almost exclusively as a result of a considerable impact of modern Western civilizatin on such Muslims.