As salâmou 'aleycum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu Tous les ans, le Boston Globe consacre son Big Picture au mois de Ramadan. Les photos suivantes montrent des musulmans lors du jeûne de l'année 2008. Enjoy ! Source : Boston.com Muslim faithful throughout the world are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Observant Muslims participate in fasting (sawm), one of the five pillars of their faith, this entire Lunar month (this year it extends from September 1st to the 30th). Eating, drinking, smoking and sexual activity is prohibited from dawn until sunset, when the fast is broken with the evening meal called Iftar. Local customs define varying traditions, including differing types of food used to break the daily fast. The fasting is meant to teach a person patience, humility and sacrifice, to set aside time to ask forgiveness, practice self-restraint, and pray for guidance in the future. (35 photos total)  Symbolizing the faith of Islam, the crescent moon is seen at sunset on top of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) 2 An officer of Brunei's Islamic authority looks through a telescope as he performs "rukyah", the sighting of the new moon for Ramadan, over the skies of Bukit Agok outside Bandar Seri Begawan August 31, 2008. Muslims scan the sky at dusk at the end of their lunar calendar's eighth month in search of the new moon to proclaim the beginning of Ramadan. (REUTERS/Ahim Rani) A
Palestinian man reads from the Koran, during the Muslim holy fasting
month of Ramadan, in a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday,
Sept. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas) Indonesian
men attend Friday prayer at Istiqlal mosque, the biggest in Southeast
Asia, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Irwin
Fedriansyah) Jordanian
Muslim girls queue in line outside a humanitarian center for waiting
for meals to be donated at the time for the breaking of their fast, or
Iftar, on the 13th day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in
Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud) A
Palestinian woman is seen on her way to pray for the holy fasting month
of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Sept.
12, 2008.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Palestinian
women lead young girls through the Kalandia checkpoint, on the
outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, to cross to Jerusalem to
attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosques compound on September 19,
2008. Thousands of Muslim faithful have been crossing every week from
the West bank to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa, Islam's third
holiest shrine, since the start of the holy month of Ramadan three weeks
ago. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images) Israeli
border police hold back Palestinians on their way to pray for the holy
fasting month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City,
at Kalandia checkpoint, between the West Bank town of Ramallah and
Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Palestinian
women walk past men (on the other side of the fence) waiting to cross a
checkpoint to get into Israel in order to pray for the holy fasting
month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City, in the
West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Tara
Todras-Whitehill) This
picture taken September 5, 2008 shows a stall worker preparing roasted
chicken wings to be sold at a Ramadan bazaar in downtown Kuala Lumpur
for the breaking of their fast. In Muslim households across Asia, the
inflation crisis is casting a shadow over the holy month of Ramadan, and
making the nightly ritual of breaking the fast a more meagre affair.
From Afghanistan to Malaysia, the high prices of food are forcing the
poor to go without, and curtailing the lavish evening buffets which the
well-off have flocked to in better economic times. (KAMARUL
AKHIR/AFP/Getty Images) Kashmiri
Muslims pray inside the Jamia Masjid, or Grand Mosque, on the first
Friday of Ramadan in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin) A
Pakistani man prepares sweet drinks for people to break their fast at a
mosque during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Lahore on
September 3, 2008. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images) A
Palestinian boy holds a homemade sparkler firework after breaking his
fast at the end of the second day of Ramadan in the West Bank city of
Ramallah,Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) A
seller of traditional Syrian sweets calls out for customers in the
Meidan quarter of Damascus September 2, 2008. Sales of the sweets go up
during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri) A
Muslim woman reads a copy of the Koran at the Istiqlal mosque during
the second day of ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia, the world's most
populous Muslim-majority country, on September 2, 2008. (ADEK
BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) In
a pre-Ramadan tradition, Bosnian Muslim girls wash their face with
water from cave as local tradition claims that the water and prayers
inside the cave will bring personal beauty and success for the year,
near the Bosnian town of Kladanj, 50 kms north of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008. More than 30.000 people gathered to pray inside
and outside the cave this year. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) A
Bangladeshi vendor sells traditional sweet meats for breaking the
Ramadan fast, at the Chalk bazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept.
12, 2008. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) An
Egyptian family looks to buy a "Fanus Ramadan", a traditional lantern
popular during Ramadan, at a shop in el-Sayeda Zaynab district of
downtown Cairo, late August 28, 2008. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images) 19 A Palestinian Muslim girl prays in the men's mosque before the evening prayer called "tarawih", during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) 20 A Pakistani man offers Friday prayers atop a mosque roof during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) 21 A man has his eyes smeared with traditional Kohl eyeliner before Friday prayers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad September 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder) 22 The
Al-Zaim family of Duxbury, Massachusetts sits, gathered together for
their dinner after 7pm on September 14th, 2008, to break their Ramadan
Fast. (Justine Hunt/Globe Staff Photo) Workers
sew prayer caps in a factory in old Dhaka, Bangladesh on September 18,
2008. Prayer caps have huge demand during the holy month of Ramadan.
(REUTERS/Andrew Biraj) Kashmiri
Muslims offer prayers inside the Jamia Masjid, or Grand Mosque, on the
first Friday of Ramadan in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin) A
child prepares food for Iftar (evening meal) before the breaking of
fast on the first day of Ramadan at Memon Mosque in Karachi, Pakistan on
September 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Athar Hussain) Lebanese
"Musaharati" Mohammed Fanas wakes up observant Muslims for their
overnight "suhur" meal before the day's fast in Sidon's Old City in
south Lebanon just before dawn on September 3, 2008. (MAHMOUD
ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images) Visually
impaired Palestinian students read verses of the Koran, Islam's holiest
book, written in Braille, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at
Al-Qabas Islamic school in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Sept.
7, 2008. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Workers
dry vermicelli, a specialty eaten during the Muslim fasting month of
Ramadan, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, India on September 5,
2008. (REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder) A
Kashmiri man rests after performing prayers inside the shrine of Sufi
saint, Mir Syed Ali Hamdani, during Ramadan in Srinagar, in
Indian-administered Kashmir on September 11, 2008. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli) Thai
Muslim children pray at a mosque during Ramadan in Narathiwat province
in Thailand on September 9, 2008. (MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/Getty Images) Afghan
men offer prayers on a hill top overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan on
September 8, 2008, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (SHAH
MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) A
worker prepares traditional sweets at a pastry shop in Tehran, Iran on
the fifth day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan September 6, 2008.
(REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl) Muslim
women attend prayers on the eve of the first day of the Islamic fasting
month of Ramadan at a mosque in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia on
August 31, 2008. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) In
this picture taken on September 13, 2008 a Pakistani labourer stacks
bananas being kept in increased quantities for the holy month of Ramadan
in the storeroom of a fruit market in Islamabad, Pakistan. (FAROOQ
NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images) A
boy sleeps in a mosque while waiting to break his fast on the first day
of Ramadan in Makassar, Indonesia on September 1, 2008. (REUTERS/Yusuf
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