What is the Ruling on Decorating One’s Home For Welcoming Ramadan?

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Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. It has become widespread among some of the people that they put up decorations, lights, lanterns, and beautifying their homes by putting up curtains and designs. They say that they do it out of joy for [the arrival of] the month of Ramadan. And some of them specify a place in their home for [putting up] decorations, and likewise the table for breaking their fast and for eating Sahur. Is this permissible? May Allah safeguard you.

Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan

This has no basis [in the religion]. The month of Ramadan is like any other month in how a person would maintain his home. And Ramadan is not specified with anything of that. Ramadan is not specified with decorating one’s home and with putting up curtains and so on. Ramadan is specified with ‘Ibadah (worship), Tawbah (repentance), and participating with the Muslims in praying al-Taraweeh and al-Tahajjud prayers.