The celebration falls on a different date each year.
Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan each year on a different date This week, Ramadan 2024 will come to end, and Muslims will end their period of fasting. Ramadan – held in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar – began this year on Sunday, March 10, and is a time when Muslims observe the prophet Muhammad’s first revelation, avoiding food and drink from dawn to sunset and devoting time to prayer and acts of charity.
Yet because the New Moon may be sighted in different areas earlier or later, it may fall on earlier or later across parts of the world. The Islamic calendar uses lunar months Why are there two Eids? In the Islamic calendar, Eid occurs twice a year – this is because ‘Eid’ is just the word to describe a Muslim festival. Eid al-Fitr is the first and smallest of the two occasions.
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