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Ramadan - The Islamic Holy Month of Fasting

Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting started on August 1st in the gulf region, Europe and America and on August 2nd in Asia regions. Ramadan (also written as Ramazan and Ramzan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which lasts 29 or 30 days. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and intimacy with their partners during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. Muslims fast for the sake of God and to offer more prayer than usual. Compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards by about eleven days each year depending on the moon; thus, a person will have fasted every day of the calendar year in 34 years' time. A woman points skyward as she and her sons look for the crescent moon in Amman, Jordan, at sunset Sunday, July 31, 2011. An Egyptian woman shops for dates supplies in Cairo.Dates are a main item in the Egyptians food supplies list of the holy month of Ramadan. An Iraqi baker prepares sweets in preparation for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which is set to begin in August, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Tourists stand under decorations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan at a market in Jerusalem's Old City. A Palestinian man hangs decorations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan outside his home. An Imam looks out from the terrace of a mosque minaret to observe the moon at sunset in Amman, Jordan. Filipino Muslims pray inside a mosque during the start of Ramadan in Quiapo, metro Manila August 1, 2011. Indonesian women buy vegetables at a street market in Jakarta August 1, 2011. A Muslim woman selling Bubur Lambuk at Kampung Baru in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Bubur Lambuk is a type of Malay rice porridge that is cooked and distributed in many places during the fasting month of Ramadan. Men attend an evening prayer called "Tarawih" to mark the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Al Azhar mosque in Cairo July 31, 2011. Chinese Hui Muslim men read the Quran, Islam's holy book, on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Niujie Mosque in Beijing. A Chinese Hui Muslim boy eats a watermelon after he breaks the fast on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Beijing. A Muslim man read the Quran, Islam's holy book, on the first day of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. Lebanese Mohammed Fanas, a dawn awakener, holds a lantern and beats on a drum to awake Muslims for the meal before sunrise in the old souk of the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon.

 

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