Tehran, YJC. The Ayatollah says that in Ramadan the number of criminal cases in the Judiciary diminish by a great degree.
Tasnim news agency
reports from Qom that in his first hermeneutics session for the Yasin sura of
the holy Quran, Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani said "The holy Ramadan comes with
astonishing instances. The first one being that all Muslims are the guests of
God. In this divine feast God is hospitable. It is clear that the host is
extremely rich and wise and is kind and benevolent to his guests.”
He added "During the
whole month, Muslims are fasting half of the time, that is, around 24 hours a
day, and that is itself a physical worshipping.”
"God ordered us to fast
in order to be clean. People who fast sin less,” the Grand Ayatollah continued,
stating that being clean and devout is one of the many reasons behind fasting.
Sobhani also said that
another reason why fasting is obligatory is that crime rates diminish in the
holy month of Ramadan.
"If you look at crime
rates you will notice that in this month the number of criminal cases radically
decreases,” he asserted.