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Ramadan Mubarak!

RAMADAN MUBARAK! (A Blessed Ramadan)
Ramadan started on 8/22/09 and will last 30 or 29 days, depending on the birth of the new moon. For more than a billion Muslims around the world-including over 8 million in North America-Ramadan is a “month of blessing” marked by prayer, fasting, and charity.

Prayer (Salah):

Salah is the name for the obligatory prayers which are performed five times a day, and are a direct link between the worshipper and God with no earthly intermediaries. A prayer takes a few minutes to perform.

Prayers are said at dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and nightfall, … Continue Reading