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World-wide Celebrations End Ramadan with a Feast
From Abu Dhabi to Zanzibar, Muslims ended their 29 or 30 days of fasting with a celebration called [...]

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The daily prayer guide coinciding with Ramadan is now online in the Muslims In … section, here.
(Please note, USA booklets are sold out, but the USA children’s edition is still available.)

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Ramadan 2008 / 1429 - The Muslim Month of Fasting
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. It is during this month that Muslims observe the Fast of Ramadan. Dates for Ramadan 2008 (or 1429) are 01 - 30 September.
Coinciding with Ramadan, we produce a booklet for the Christian world called, "30-Days Muslim [...]

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Muslims believe in Allah and that he is unique, all powerful, gracious and merciful to all Muslims.
The Islamic faith is lived out according to five "pillars" that must be adhered to if one is to hope for salvation.

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One fifth of humankind shares a single aspiration to complete, at least once, the spiritual journey called the Hajj. In Arabic, Hajj literally means "resolve" ie; to resolve to some magnificent duty.

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Muslims are supposed to pray five times a day at specific times while facing the direction of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Muslim prayer is formal and ritualistic yet many Muslims do make every effort to be sincere and upright in performing their prayers. Muslim prayer is characterised by rules of respect and attitudes of [...]

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Shame-Based Culture: by Roland Muller
In September 2005, not long before the month of Ramadan, a Danish newspaper decided to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Little did they realize that they were igniting an explosion that would ripple throughout 2006.

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Laylatul Qadr (the Night of Power) holiest of all
Muslim scholars believe that while the Qur’an was revealed over a period of 23 years the Night of Power is considered the night in which the first revelations of Islam and the prophethood of Muhammed began. This night is in celebration of the arrival of the [...]

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