{"id":35239,"date":"2023-03-22T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=35239"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T08:13:35","slug":"ramadan-to-start-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/ramadan-to-start-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan \u00a0To Start On Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Dr. Ziyad Swalleh Lubanga, the Director of Sharia at the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC, the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims will start on Thursday, March 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, Taraweeh prayers will begin each evening at 8:30 p.m. in the National Mosque and other mosques across the nation, according to Dr. Sheikh Lubanga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, he announced that throughout the holy month of Ramadan, Islamic seminars, or darsas, would be held every Sunday at 10:00 am at the national mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the five pillars of Islam is the month-long observance of Ramadan, which involves fasting from dawn to nightfall. Ramadan is a time for introspection and spiritual development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being one of the 12 months in the Islamic calendar, Ramadan&#8217;s date fluctuates every year since the lunar calendar is around ten days shorter than the Gregorian calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muslims all throughout the world rely on moon-sighting reports to determine when Ramadan and other Islamic months officially begin. It is said that the crescent must set after the sun in order to be visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Ziyad Swalleh Lubanga, the Director of Sharia at the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council-UMSC, the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims will start on Thursday, March 23. Moreover, Taraweeh prayers will begin each evening at 8:30 p.m. in the National Mosque and other mosques across the nation, according to Dr. Sheikh Lubanga. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":35240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[8324,119],"class_list":["post-35239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dr-ziyad-swalleh-lubanga","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35241,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239\/revisions\/35241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}