Eid el-Fitr (the Lesser Bairam), a feast of great significance, always starts on the first day of Shawwaal, the tenth month of the Muslim year after the confirmed sighting of the new moon.
This feast commemorates the end the Muslim holy month of (...)
The holy month of Ramadan is upon us, and once the cresent moon is sighted, Muslims in South Africa observe one of the Five Pillars (duties) of Islam, that of fasting from dawn to dusk in celebration of the divine revelation of the Qu'ran to the (...)
