? What is Fasting in Ramadan

Fasting during the month of Ramadhan

AUTHORS(S): 

Hussein al-Hussein

A unique moral and spiritual characteristic of Islam is the prescribed institution of Fasting or Siyam in Arabic. Literally defined, fasting means to abstain completely from foods, drinks, sex, and smoking, before break of the dawn till sunset, during the entire lunar month of Ramadhan, the ninth month of the Islamic year.

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