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Ramadan
December, 2000
Believers take no food, or drink from sunrise to sunset. The fast
begins each day at dawn, which for Muslims comes nearly two hours
before sunrise. Sunrise marks the end of the first period of prayer.
Dawn is reckoned as the time when the sun's first light is seen
on the horizon, or, according to a Hadith, when a white cord may
be distinguished from a black cord. Traditionally, the fast is broken
with a bowl of soup and a special salad (fattoush) but the evening
breakfast ('iftar) is often an opportunity for revelling which may
go on late into the night. Ramadan is not a holiday, but work schedules
may be seriously disrupted or altered.
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