Tag Archives: Fasting

Muslims around the world are fasting from dawn to maqrib this Ramadan. But what happens if the sun never sets...

With the excitement of the joyous completion of the holy month of Ramadan, it is easy to forget about the needs of those in poverty and our obligation to provide charity to...

Certain factors are at play for sighting the crescent on the first night of the month. These factors include “the time when the sun and the moon sets”, “the interval between the setting of the two”, “the coordinates of the sun and the moon and also the difference between the angles of them which is down to the latitudinal as well as the directional difference of the moon and the sun”, “the percentage of...

Some people questioned the possibility of breaking Sawm (fasting) in the month of Ramadan because of high temperature and is it permissible, which prompted the Egyptian media to resort to the...

The office of His Eminence Ayatollah Sistani announced a statement in order to answer a question about the determination or the closest likelihood of the Night of Qadr...

What is the opinion of maraja' related to several traditions in Shia literature mentioning the permissibility of anal intercourse during fasting, and that the action will not affect the...

There are many types of squirrels in the world. Some live in trees, while others live in underground burrows. The ground squirrels fast for days at a...

Making of the UAE's largest Iftar meal that feeds 35,000 people daily at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque every Ramadan is not an easy task. An army of chefs and cooking assistants work hard to...

Researchers at the University of Southern California studied humans, as well as mice, who went without food for two to four days at a time over a six-month period...

According to the ISIS , the terrorist group, the fast of those who are not affiliated to ISIS is void. Hence, the ones who fast while they are not of the members of ISIS are hypocrite, and they can be...