Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is marked by fasting, reflection, charity and prayer. It is believed that the first verses of Islam's holy scripture, the Quran, were ...

In Islam, Fajr is the first prayer of the day, one of the five daily obligatory prayers for Muslims. The Fajr adhan — the call to prayer — begins right at dawn, and is to be performed before ...

Later the same year, the prayer call was broadcast from a third-story window of the Union Square Bank building in New York City. After John Lant, a convert to Islam and co-founder of First Society ...

A month of fasting and prayer represents the most sacred ... Muslims believe that this is the month in which God revealed the first verses of the Quran to Muhammad, who is considered the final ...