There are many degrees of Islam and it depends on your degree. Ramadan is meant for ibadah only. Yes you can go for emergency needs but all shopping with not the intent of pleasing Allah will lead to haram. As you should not be watching tv either except for news and religion. As in if you are a man, then a look at a woman could break your fast. As hard as you might try, maybe something catches your eye, or maybe some act of harm would cause the shaitan to divert you from the fasting.

What is fasting, giving up food, water, bad talk and sexual intercourse. Is that all Ramadan is, absolutely not. A person who loves Allah with all their heart and soul and the prophet must do many things. IE. reading the one part of the Quran each day, also you need to read Sura Mulk each day to protect your self from the punishment of the grave. You need to real Sadjdah each day as this is sunnah. You need to read Dukan to protect yourself from the judgement day, you need to read part of Sura 2 to protect yourself and your home from jinn. You need to listen to the holy Quran each day in the amount that is good for you. You need to visit the poor and distribute alms to them and to feed the needy. You need to go to the Mosque and pray taraweed salat, you need to pray the late night prayers when Allah is most present. YOu need to make zikr mostly after fajr and asr salat. NOw if you are doing all these things, you do not have time for shopping.

MOst of the belief of the Muslim is dictated by fatwah's from the sheiks and most of my education comes from that. YOu will not find the ways of doing the Salat in the Quran but it is taught to us by our most beloved prophet. So Islam is not just the Quran but the sunnah and the Hadiths combined. Who will not go to Jannah, the one who will not submit. What does that mean, the one who would not do what our beloved prophet instructed us to do.

Number one I don't question Allah or my prophet. What he says to do I do.

Number two to love your prophet more than your family, your life and your dunya would mean to work day and night to please him. IE. when they insulted our prophet by the cartoons in Denmark we boycotted their products.

I use to own my own business in America and made a huge amount of money and I migrated to an Islamic country and did this for the pleasure of Allah. I gave up all my worldly goods and I studied intensely the Hadith, sunnah and Quran. This is a true migration.

So I must emphasize that Islam is a difficult religion for some but a beautiful religion for most and it takes looking at its entirety.

May Allah forgive me for anything I did wrong in this life and the next.