Moon sighted, Ramadan begins Sunday
02 April 2022, 08:42 pm | Updated: 21 November 2024, 11:27 pm
The Ramadan crescent moon was sighted in Bangladesh on Saturday evening, meaning the holy month will officially begin on Sunday, according to an official announcement from The national moon sighting committee.
Muslims follow a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days. Sighting a crescent moon heralds the start of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
The starting date of the dawn-dusk fasting month of Ramadan is determined by both lunar calculations and physical sightings of a new moon.
Observant Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, and traditionally gather with family and friends to break their fast in the evening.
It is also a time of prayers, during whichMuslims converge in large numbers on mosques, especially at night.
Ramadan is a holy month for the world’s more than 1.5 billion Muslims.
