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Iftar, a meal consumed to break fast.It is a sunnah to break fast with dates. In Islam, fasting (known as sawm, [1] Arabic: صوم; Arabic pronunciation: or siyam, Arabic: صيام; Arabic pronunciation:) is the practice of abstaining, usually from food, drink, sexual activity and anything which substitutes food and drink.
Fasting on the White Days is recommended according to many Islamic schools of jurisprudence.Muslims believe the reward for fasting on them is as great as fasting the entire year, as the reward for fasting three days is multiplied by 10 times as much or more, making it equivalent to a month, and, if done every month, makes it equivalent to a year, without subtracting from the reward of fasting ...
The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons. The Islamic day starts after sunset.
The month of Ramadan revolves around the crescent moon and begins this year on April 1. It will end May 1.
Ramadan [b] (Arabic: رَمَضَان, romanized: Ramaḍān [ra.ma.dˤaːn]; [c] also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, [10] observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting , prayer , reflection, and community. [11]
Fasting the month of Ramadān was made obligatory (wājib) during the month of Sha'ban, in the second year after the Muslims migrated from Mecca to Medina. Fasting for the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. [1] During the break of fasting food vendors selling delicacies in a bazaar in Bangladesh
Fasting does not only refer to food and drink during Islam’s holy month
Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.