During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims throughout the world and throughout the United Kingdom endure daily fasting - the largest act of its kind for religious celebration of its kind.
For the 1.8 billion Muslims in the world, including the Muslim community in Britain with a population of 3.1 million, representing the annual event a time to pray and dedicate the special focus of prayer and purification and charity.
From why Ramadan is turning to how to celebrate it, here's everything you need to know about the holy month.
When does Ramadan 2020 start and end?
This year, Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, begins on Thursday, 23 April and ends on Saturday, 23 May.
Because the calendar is Lunar, the dates for the start of every month, moving every year; in 2019 began Ramadan on Sunday, May 5 and ended Tuesday evening, June 4.
In the Islamic calendar, each new month begins when the first crescent of the new moon is seen. It's shorter than the 10 to 11 days from the solar year does not contain leap days, weeks, or months, this is why they are a feast for the mutant.
The current year in the Islamic calendar also known as Muslim calendar or Hijri - is 1441 e. In the calendar, it is run almost from September 1, 2019 to August 20, 2020.
What's Ramadan?
During the holy month of Ramadan, does not allow Muslims food or drink pass their lips from dawn to dusk. Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad descended in a series of revelations from God swept configure the Quran - and the Quran was revealed during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan.
After learning of Gabriel and that the Koran will have during the month, he told the prophet Islamic Muhammad his followers that the gates of Paradise will remain open for the month, while it will be closing the gates of hell. Many Muslims will try to recite as much of the Holy Koran as possible during the month.
As the holiest month in the year, they are a crucial period for practicing Muslims and some of the core values of the religion, such as prayer and giving charity.
Why do Muslims fast in Ramadan?
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. Other prayers (Salat), and give a percentage of your salary to charity (Zakat), and to Mecca, and, of course, faith in the Muslim religion (certificate).
Fasting is seen as a means of spiritual and physical cleansing - a time of separation from material pleasures and proximity to God. Fasting is believed to strengthen Muslims and remind them that others are less fortunate.
Fasting involves refraining from all food, drink, smoke and sex from sunrise to sunset. Wake up Muslims before sunrise for Fajr eat before maintenance end. Most of them will have breakfast with their families in the evening with a group breakfast, usually starting to pass.
Suitable and capable adults are expected to fast, but children and the elderly are exempt. Pregnant or lactating women, any sick person and any person travelling on a journey are also excluded. Women in menstruation are not expected to fast but later spend the last days.
There is active controversy among British Muslims about whether to apply a literal understanding to the instructions about fasting during the day and operational thinking, taking into account the daylight hours longer.
Uses many of the Muslims in Scandinavia, where there is only a short period of darkness in the summer, Turkey as a model.
Generally, Ramadan is time for Muslims to practice self-discipline and self-control spiritually and physically, as well as empathy with the plight of the poor.
What's a mushroom?
To mark the end of the month of fasting, the distinction of Shawwal on the first day of the month following the remote is large, the exchange of gifts and ceremonies, known as the "festival breakfast" or Eid al-Fitr. This year is held from Saturday, May 23, to Sunday evening, May 24.
The Eid prayer is also performed by a group in open areas such as mosques, fields and community centres.
Not to be confused with Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of the sacrifice" which will start on Thursday 30 July and ends Monday evening August 3 of this year.
And they celebrate the occasion when Allah appeared to Abraham in a dream, and he asked him to sacrifice his son Ishmael, to make clear his devotion.
Ignoring the advice of the Shaitan, who tried to seduce Ibrahim (Abraham), Ibrahim (Abraham) was about to move forward when Allah stopped him and gave him a burden to kill him instead.