Fasting during Ramadan

Including: During the entire month of Ramadan, Muslims are obligated to fast (Arabic: صوم, sawm; Persian: روزہ, rozeh), every day from dawn to sunset.

Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed as a guide for humanity with clear proofs of guidance and the decisive authority.

You may eat and drink until you see the light of dawn breaking the darkness of night, then complete the fast until nightfall.

Eating, drinking, and sexual activities are allowed between dawn (fajr), and sunset (maghrib).

Fasting is considered an act of deeply personal worship in which Muslims seek a raised level of closeness to God.

[2] During Ramadan, Muslims are also expected to not put more effort into following the teachings of Islam by refraining from violence, anger, envy, greed, lust, angry/sarcastic retorts, gossip, and are meant to try to get along with each other better than normal.

[4][better source needed] Fasting during Ramadan is not obligatory for several groups for whom it would be excessively problematic, among them people with medical conditions.

Should the circumstance be permanent or present for an extended amount of time, one may recompense by feeding a needy person for every day missed.

[5] During a 2013 poliomyelitis outbreak in Somalia, some groups of aid workers were granted an exemption for the oral polio vaccine.

[7] Other exemptions include: Many mosques will provide iftar (literally: breakfast) meals after sundown for the community to come and end their day's fasting as a whole.

The researchers examined whether performances varied during Ramadan depending on the time of people’s last meal.

This research indicates that (a) cognitive control processes are engaged from the early hour of the fast, and susceptible to manipulation, and (b) after a few hours into the fast, regardless of whether they have been reminded of food or not, people take longer to distinguish between correct and incorrect responses, yet respond more accurately.

[13] Linguistically, the word fasting in the Arabic language means unconditional 'restraint' (imsak) from any action or speech during any time.

'Whether deliberately or accidentally' excludes forgetful acts of eating, drinking, or sexual activity.

For one, Sunnis break their fast at sunset, once the sun is no longer visible, but there is still light in the sky.

They mourn for three days (on the 19th, 20th, and 21st) to commemorate Ali, the son in law of Muhammad and first Imam of the Shia, who was assassinated by Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam.