Ramadan Awareness Campaign is an initiative designed to educate both Muslims and Non Muslims about the month of Ramadan, the most significant month in the Islamic calendar.
This year, the RAC campaign is targeting health. Through our presentations to school students across NSW, we endeavor to provide information and greater insight into the implications of making healthy food and lifestyle choices, and how these choices can ultimately affect long term health and well-being.
Note: This site will be continually updated throughout Ramadan, please come back to check out new content!
The Prophet, upon whom be peace, said: "The blessed month has come to you. Allah has made fasting during it obligatory upon you. During it, the gates to Paradise are opened and the gates to hellfire are locked, and the devils are chained. There is a night [during this month] which is better than a thousand months. Whoever is deprived of its good is really deprived [of something great]."
Related by Ahmad, an-Nasa'i, and al-Baihaqi.
Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet, upon whom be peace, said: "Whoever fasts the month of Ramadan with faith and seeks Allah's pleasure and reward will have his previous sins forgiven."
Mercy is a favour from Allah which He places in the hearts of whomsoever He wills. Verily, Allah will have mercy on His servants who are merciful. Allah is the Most Compassionate the Most Merciful. He loves the merciful and calls to mercy. He orders His servants to enjoin patience and mercy. A person may lack mercy for any number of reasons, among them, an abundance of sins and disobedience. They stain their hearts so much so that they ultimately blind them until their hearts become harder than stones. Allah says of the Children of Israel: 'And yet, after all this, your hearts hardened and became like rocks, or even harder' (Quran 2:74).
Dr. Imad Bayoun from the Muslim American Society (MAS) goes over some of the sicknesses of the heart and how to cure them through purification of the heart and soul.
Khutbah (Friday Sermon) delivered in 2007 about Health in Islam and the current medical issues that are facing the Australian population and the wider globe.
Another excellent clip, recommend to all.
Background on Zachariah Matthews
BPharm, BSc (Hons), PharmD
Zachariah completed his Pharmacy and Science degree (with Honours in Pharmacology) in South Africa and his Doctor of
Pharmacy degree in the US. He has worked in hospital pharmacy ever since arriving in Australia in 1990, spent 12 years at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and is currently Director of Pharmacy, Canterbury Hospital. Zachariah is currently a member representing the Therapeutic Advisory Group (TAG) on the NSW Health Expert Group to identify strategies for controlling and preventing multi-resistant organisms (MROs). He has lectured to post-graduate pharmacy students at the University of Sydney on topics ranging from drug information to antibiotics.
Ramadan Awareness Campaign is an initiative designed to educate both Muslims and Non Muslims about the month of Ramadan, the most significant month in the Islamic calendar. 
