What is prescribed for the Muslim to do upon the arrival of the month of Ramadan?

Question : What is prescribed for the Muslim to do with the arrival of this month, Honorable Shaykh?

Answer : What is prescribed for him to do is either obligatory or recommended. As for fasting, it is obligatory, and there is no doubt in its obligation. As for the recommended, it is standing in prayer, standing in the night prayer. Also, it is befitting for a person to increase in it generosity and kindness, and to give of what is good in speech, action, and wealth. And that he should persevere, and persevere in standing in prayer, which is the tarawih with the imam. Indeed, whoever stands in prayer with the imam until he finishes, Allah writes for him the standing of a complete night, praise be to Allah. And that he does not waste the hours of that month in idleness, as some people do. They stay up at night and sleep during the day, and stay up at night on matters that do not benefit them, but may even harm them. O Allah, we ask You to seize the times with righteous deeds.