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Muslims gather in a stadium in Milan Italy to say the last prayer of Ramadan together
Ninth Moon 5 Chapter 1 There are nearly two billion Muslims people of the Islamic faith in the world One special night each year Muslim people across the globe scan the sky eagerly At moonrise Ramadan the ninth month of the Islamic year begins During Ramadan Muslims spend the entire month gathering as families and communities They celebrate with prayer fasts and feasts in honor of God Allah in Arabic September is the ninth month out of twelve months in the solar calendar year Even though Ramadan is also the ninth of twelve months it does not fall each year in September In the Arabic language the word Ramadan means the hot month However Ramadan may fall in the summer or winter This is because the Islamic calendar follows the lunar calendar and the Western calendar follows the solar calendar
