Ramadan is a time for reflection and prayer for Muslims. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims fast during the day, up until the end is marked by a day called Eid al-Fitr.

Ramadan is the month when Muslims all over the world fast from food and drink between sunrise and sunset. We fast because it’s mandated in Islam – that’s the money answer.

For over a billion Muslims worldwide, Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, a period dedicated to heightened devotion, gratitude, and discipline. It is observed with fasting from ...

My son, Evren, started observing Ramadan last year at the age of 11. He came home one day and declared that he would be fasting. “I know it’s hard, Mamma, but Isa does it, so I’ll have a ...

Brace yourself for Ramadan fasting. Here’s how I survive — and deepen my faith Getting through a month of fasting is hard, but there are things you can do to make it easier, and more ...

During the 30 days of Ramadan, many Muslims fast, refraining from food, drink, smoking and sex, between dawn and sunset each day. Fasting is only compulsory for adult Muslims.

A Palestinian worker sorts and packs dates at a factory in preparation for the fasting Muslim month of Ramadan in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 19, 2023 (AFP via Getty Images) ...

If someone is permanently unable to fast, they are required to feed a poor person for every day missed. But most of us are able to overcome the effects of fasting within the first few days of Ramadan.

Brace yourself for Ramadan fasting. Here’s how I survive — and deepen my faith Working from home, if you can, and the occasional nap might help you get through Ramadan this year.

Yahid Midou joins in the Maghrib, a prayer done after Iftar to break the fast during the month of Ramadan, on Thursday March 27, 2025 at the Islamic Center of Victor Valley.

By 4:15 a.m., give or take a few minutes, I will stop eating and drinking, and will begin a nearly 16-hour complete fast — no water, no food, not even gum. Then I’ll try to get a couple hours ...

Muslims pray as they practice social distancing during an evening prayer called tarawih, marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Chicago's Muslim Community Center on April 12 ...