Key PointsAustralia’s Grand Mufti, Dr Ibrahim Abu Muhammad, has introduced Ramadan will begin on 12 March.Ramadan’s date relies on the lunar calendar and adjustments every year. Throughout this month, Muslims abstain from consuming and consuming from daybreak to sundown whereas rising prayer and charity.
Ramadan will begin in Australia on Tuesday 12 March, following a declaration by the nation’s Grand Mufti, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamad.
The month of Ramadan is the holiest month within the Islamic calendar, which relies on the cycles of the moon across the Earth.
Because it’s 10 to 12 days shorter than the photo voltaic yr, the dates for Islamic events fluctuate yearly.
The primary day of the holy month is determined by the sighting of the crescent moon by the bare eye.
Theologians and students collect yearly to find out the onset of Ramadan, which varies throughout the globe in keeping with location.
This yr, the primary evening of the Holy Month of Ramadan and Taraweeh Prayer shall be on Monday 11 March after sundown.
The holy month ends with feasting and items on Islam’s largest pageant, Eid al-Fitr, which this yr will begin on 9 April.
What’s Ramadan?
The holy month is a big time of non secular reflection.
Throughout this month, Muslims abstain from consuming and consuming from daybreak to sundown whereas rising prayer and charity.
Whereas fasting, Muslims additionally abstain from smoking (that features shisha and vaping), taking treatment, and sexual exercise.
Many individuals additionally make an effort to learn extra Quran, spend time on the mosque, and chorus from immoral behaviour equivalent to gossiping, pondering unkind ideas, or losing time.
The primary meal at sundown is known as iftar — the breaking of the quick. It is common observe for Muslims to begin their iftar by consuming a date (or three) and water.
Muslims are additionally inspired to get up simply earlier than daybreak for a meal earlier than their day of fasting begins — that is referred to as suhur in Arabic, or sehri in Urdu.