When do muslims fast?

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Adult, sane, healthy Muslims must fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Islamic fasting means refraining from eating, drinking, and marital intimacy between dawn and sunset. The ill and travelers are excused from fasting, but must make up the days they missed later in the year. Those who are permanently unable to fast may buy food to feed the poor, instead.

Islam promises exceptional rewards to Muslims who also observe optional, or Sunnah, fasts on:

Monday and Thursday of each week.

The three days each month when the moon is full.

The day of Ashurah and either the day before and or the day after it. (Ashurah commemorates the escaped of Prophet Moses (God bless him and grant him peace) and his people from Egypt.

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Adult, sane, healthy Muslims must fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Islamic fasting means refraining from eating, drinking, and marital intimacy between dawn and sunset. The ill and travelers are excused from fasting, but must make up the days they missed later in the year. Those who are permanently unable to fast may buy food to feed the poor, instead.

Islam promises exceptional rewards to Muslims who also observe optional, or Sunnah, fasts on:

Monday and Thursday of each week.

The three days each month when the moon is full.

The day of Ashurah and either the day before and or the day after it. (Ashurah commemorates the escaped of Prophet Moses (God bless him and grant him peace) and his people from Egypt.

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Muslims fast everyday during the month of Ramadhan. Ramadhan fast is compulsory for every Muslim (right from the age of puberty till old age, although the sick and those who are too old & weak to perform the fast are exempted from the ritual, but they have to pay a penance). At the same time, Muslims too do fast during other days outside Ramadhan month, usually on Mondays & Thursdays.

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