Muslims celebrate at the end of Ramada with breaking fasting

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What is the sugar festival?

Muslims celebrate a big party at the end of the Ramadan. It is one of the religious highlights of the believers in the year. But what does the holiday have to do with sugar?

After a month of fasting, Muslims come to an end for Muslims around the world – with a three -day festival.

With the festival of fasting (Eid al-Fitr), Muslims end the fasting month of Ramadan worldwide. It is also called Ramadanfest and lasts two to three days depending on the country and region. In Turkish it is also called sugar festival (Şeker Bayramı) because children are given sweets.

The beginning of the festival varies from year to year because it depends on the moon phases. In 2025 Muslims celebrate the sugar festival from March 30th to 31st. Because the appointment for the Ramadan is calculated according to the lunar calendar, the time for the sugar festival is also shifting every year.

The sugar festival is one of the most important festivities in Islam with the sacrificial festival (Eid al-Adha). Faithful ask Allah to recognize her prayers and efforts during the Ramadan and to forgive mistakes.

With the sugar festival, Muslims express their joy that they have mastered Ramadan’s privation. The fasting month is officially over and Muslims are allowed to eat again in daylight.

An important religious duty to the sugar festival is the prayer on the morning of the first day. The faithful are festively dressed and meet in the mosque for praying together. After the prayers, many Muslims donate (Zakat) pay the needy members of the community.

Then Muslims send congratulations to the sugar festival: they send greeting SMS or postcards and wish “all the best for the oath”. Because the sugar festival is a feast of the family, the holidays are part of the holidays.

The believers commit the sugar festival with extensive feasts, which are allowed again after the fasting month in daylight. In many places, the faithful celebrate with lights and folk festivals.

The festival of fasting is not only committed by deep -religious people. Similar to Christmas in the Christian Culture, atheists also take part in the celebrations for the sugar festival.

If you want to congratulate your Muslim friends or colleagues at the end of the fasting month, you can easily Happy sugar festival wish. Who will have his congratulations Arabic wants to do that with “Eid Mubarak” do.

Turkish You can with believers “Bayram Mübarek Olsun” make a pleasure. Translated, this means roughly “I wish you a blessed festival”.

Authorities and shops are closed in Islamic countries during the holidays, students do not have to appear for class. There are different regulations in Germany. Muslim students can take the first day of the sugar festival in almost all federal states.