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The day of Hari Raya Puasa in 2007 falls on 13 October.
Hari Raya Puasa is the festival for Muslim to celebrate
breaking of the fast.
A person who is observing the fast is required to abstain from food and drink from the first flush of dawn to sunset, each day throughout the month of Ramadhan. The fast is obligatory upon every healthy, adult Muslim, male or female. There are certain exemptions. A sick person, a person who is travelling, a pregnant woman or one who is breast-feeding her child, one who finds the severity of the fast hard to bear on account of age or other infirmity, are exempt from observing the fast. The person, who is exempt from fast, if he can afford, should arrange to provide food for a poor person throughout the month of Ramadhan, or give the equivalent amount to charity known as FIDYA. The Muslim calendar is a lunar calendar and the 29th/30th days month of Ramadhan comes eleven days earlier every year. It may therefore, over a period of years, fall in different seasons, unlike the period of religious fasting observed by Christians called LENT which always falls in spring.
The fast places everybody, rich and poor alike, on the same level.
During the month of fasting, there are festival markets in Geylang Serai and Kampong Glam. Many Muslims go to Geylang Serai to have their festival shopping. Many non-Muslim Singaporean and tourists also like to visit the market for goods with traditional Muslim culture. A wide variety of Malay foods can also be found in the Kampong Glam festival market. |
Festival Market in Kampong Glam
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Festival Market in Geylang Serai
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