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Ramadan (
Arabic:
رمضان
Ramaḍān,
Persian:
Ramazan IPA: [rɑmɑˈdˤɑːn];
variations Turkish:
Ramazan) is the ninth month of the
Islamic calendar, which lasts 29 or 30 days. It is the
Islamic month of
fasting, in which participating
Muslims refrain from
eating,
drinking and
sex with their partners
[1] during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. Muslims fast for the sake of
God (
Arabic:
الله, trans:
Allah) and to offer more
prayer than usual. Compared to the
solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards by about eleven days each year
depending on the moon; thus, a person will have fasted every day of the calendar year in 34 years' time. Muslims believe Ramadan to be an auspicious month for the revelations of God to humankind, being the month in which the first verses of the
Qur'an were revealed to the
Islamic prophet,
Muhammad.
