The hues and colours of Ramadan Traditional Ramadan lamps are displayed for sale at a street market in Sana’a, Yemen on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. (EPA) A man sells the traditional Pakistani food "Phayonian" ahead of Islam's holy month of Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan. Muslims all over the world are observing Ramadan which prohibits food, drink, smoke and sex from dawn to dusk. (EPA) A Palestinian man reads the Koran, Islam's holy book, as he sits in front of his shop in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank. In Hebron, the West Bank. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. (EPA) Muslim children play on a carpet on a street during the first day of Ramadan outside the mosque in the southern Spanish town of Estepona, near Malaga. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. (REUTERS) A man reads the Koran, Islam's holy book, at the Great Mosque in Sana’a, Yemen, the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. (EPA) Palestinian young men gather on the steps at the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem and smoke water pipes as they celebrate after breaking the first day of fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (EPA) An elderly Palestinian man reads the Quran in the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City, the West Bank,. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. (EPA) Muslim pilgrims pray inside the Grand Mosque, with the Mecca Clock lit up in the background, on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Mecca. The giant clock on a skyscraper in Islam's holiest city Mecca began ticking on Wednesday at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, amid hopes by Saudi Arabia it will become the Muslim world's official timekeeper. (REUTERS) Palestinians walk under colored lights as they go to the first evening prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque at Jerusalem's old city Damascus Gate after breaking the fast on the first day of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. (AFP) Palestinian buys groceries in preparation for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a market in Gaza City, the West Bank. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. (EPA) Palestinian employees making sweets for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn until sunset. (EPA) Muslims line up for food as they break fast after sunset at Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. Muslims around the world started their first day of fasting to observe the month long Ramadan.(AFP) Pakistan-weather-floods-Ramadan,FOCUS by Hasan Mansoor A Pakistani flood-affected woman prepares tea for family members before beginning their fast at a makeshift camp in Sukkur early on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The holy month of Ramadan is bringing nothing but misery for millions of Pakistanis who fled for their lives when catastrophic floods washed away their homes, villages and livelihoods. (AFP) Muslims say the sunset prayer at Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia. Muslims around the world started their first day of fasting to observe the month long Ramadan. (AFP) Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Whats App Pin Interest