Reflection · 2:187
The limits of fasting and rules of retreat
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Teaching about Ramadan nights, dawn, completing the fast, and retreat in the mosque. Reflection material, without prescribing a dedicated prayer recitation. A verse teaching remembrance or discussing healing does not itself prescribe a special recitation of that verse.
Quran · 2:187
Meaning
It has been made permissible for you to be intimate with your wives during the nights preceding the fast. Your spouses are a garment for you as you are for them. Allah knows that you were deceiving yourselves. So He has accepted your repentance and pardoned you. So now you may be intimate with them and seek what Allah has prescribed for you. (You may) eat and drink until you see the light of dawn breaking the darkness of night, then complete the fast until nightfall. Do not be intimate with your spouses while you are meditating in the mosques. These are the limits set by Allah, so do not exceed them. This is how Allah makes His revelations clear to people, so they may become mindful (of Him).
Sources & review
The Quran · Qur'an, Al-Baqarah: 187
Quranic text (not a hadith grading)
Arabic: Tanzil 1.1, retained unchanged. The ... marks omitted text and is not recited. Transliteration is a reading aid, not a guide to all tajwid rules.
Open source reference ↗Arabic text: Tanzil 1.1. Reviewed with AI assistance. This is not a fatwa or a claim that every hadith grading is unanimous.