The document describes a typical day of fasting during Ramadan for the author's family. It details waking up for suhoor, the pre-fast meal, then fasting until maghrib when the fast is broken with a meal and prayers. During the day, activities may include going back to sleep, reading Quran, or doing schoolwork. Hunger levels vary throughout the afternoon, until the call to prayer for maghrib signals iftar and the end of the day's fast.

1. A Day of Fasting 2006 Talibiddeen Jr.

2. It’s Ramadhan!

3. Time for a month of fasting and blessings, insha Allah

4. What’s it like to fast for Ramadhan?

5. Come with me and see!

6. Brnngggg! goes the alarm clock. Ummy sets it extra early so that we can get up to eat suhoor

7. Since I’m a little older this year, I’m going to help make suhoor.

8. Some days we eat egg sandwiches…..

9. Some days it’s a nice hot bowl of oatmeal….

10. and on the days we wake up a little late ….

11. It might be leftovers….

12. Suhoor’s cooking up, so I go and wake up the rest of the fasters….

13. We serve and eat suhoor. Everyone eats and keeps an eye on the clock….

14. Sometimes we have lots of time until the adhan….

15. And sometimes we finish just in the nick of time……

16. That’s the adhan for Salatul Fajr Now we must stop all eating and drinking until Maghrib….

17. What’s next? Well, it depends….

18. Sometimes we go back to sleep for a while….

19. Sometimes we stay up and read or recite Quraan..

20. A little later we may read a little bit about Ramadhan or fasting and do some school work….

21. The afternoon rolls around. Sometimes I am very hungry…..

22. Some days, I can’t believe it is almost time to break my fast… I’m not hungry at all..

23. About half an hour before maghrib, everyone rushes around cleaning up and deciding what we will have to break our fast.

24. Then the time we have been waiting for is here…….

25. The muadhdhin calls the adhan for Salatul Maghrib…..

26. Everybody takes a bite of food and a sip and says the duaa for breaking the fast….

27. Those who are at the age of praying, pray Salatul Maghrib

28. and then we sit down at the maidah to a yummy dinner.

29. And that’s how a day of fasting usually goes for my family…. How about yours?

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