Foreign workers gather to break fast at the end of the first day of Ramadan in Jeddah September 1, 2008. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
REUTERS/Stringer (SAUDI ARABIA)
Muslim workers break their fast on the first day of Ramadan at a free table at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday Sept. 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Foreign workers gather to break fast at the end of the first day of Ramadan in Jeddah September 1, 2008. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
REUTERS/Stringer (SAUDI ARABIA)
A cannon fires and fireworks go off as part of the ceremonial shot that ends the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside Jerusalem's Old City Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, refraining from eating, drinking, and smoking from dawn to dusk.
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Palestinian Muslims youths read verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book, while waiting to break their daily fast during the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in a mosque in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, refraining from eating, drinking, and smoking from dawn to dusk.
(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A Yemeni man shows his female relative a copy of the holy Quran he would like to buy during the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the Grand mosque in the old city of Sana'a, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008 .
(AP Photo/Mohammed al-Qadhi)
Pakistani Muslims offer prayers on a street during the first night of the holy month of Ramadan in Karachi September 1, 2008. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)
Pakistani Muslims offer prayers on a street during the first night of the holy month of Ramadan in Karachi September 1, 2008. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)
Pakistani Muslims buy dates at a market in Karachi, ahead of the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world's conflict hotspots but hit hard by rising food prices.
(AFP/Asif Hassan)
A foreign worker bakes bread at a market in Dubai on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world's conflict hotspots but hit hard by rising food prices.
(AFP/Karim Sahib)
An Indian street vendor sells delicacies outside the Jama Masjid mosque in the old quarter of New Delhi. Muslims around the world this week begin the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan amid hopes of violence easing in some of the Islamic world's conflict hotspots but hit hard by rising food prices.
(AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)
Bahraini men and boys watch the sky together for the new moon Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in Malkiya, Bahrain, as the sun sets on the first official day of Ramadan in the tiny Persian Gulf island nation. The start of the Islamic holy month depends on the siting of the new moon, and people often gather to look for it in the early days of Ramadan even if an official call already has been made.
(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
Tasty treat: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah checking out chicken wings being sold at the Ramadan Bazaar in Jalan Raja Alang, Kuala Lumpur. — Bernama
Keep ’em rolling: Customers waiting for fresh popiah rolls at the Ramadan Bazaar in Desa Pandan, Kuala Lumpur. (The Star)
First day pangs: Nur Maisarah, six, (top) and Nur Aliya Hazirah, nine, looking at their brother Muhammad Hilman, three, enjoying a drink with his fried chicken on the first day of the fasting month for Muslims. KAMARUL ARIFFIN/The Star - 2 September, 2008
A man is selling grilled terubok fish at Pasar Satok's Ramadan Bazaar in Sarawak. (Berita Harian)
RM1.00 "Bubur Sum-Sum" at Jalan Raja Alang's Ramadan Bazaar, Kuala Lumpur (Berita Harian)
Wives of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, ex-Prime Minister and cabinet ministers are packing Eid goodies to be given to soldiers and policemen during Ramadan (Berita Harian)
Rosly Sirun (left), a staff of Malaysian Postal Service is paying his "Zakat Fitrah" at Plaza Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Berita Harian)
Abdul Haq, an ethnic Chinese with his sister Siti Aishah after converting to Islam at Islamic Religious Affairs Department, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. (Berita Harian)
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