- fasting
- abstaining from food and drink from the dawn's rising until sunset
- suhoor
- the meal eaten in the night before the rising of dawn
- iftar
- breaking the fast at the sun's setting, with water and dates
- the crescent
- the month's beginning, seen in the sky as a crescent
- the Night of Power
- the night that is better than a thousand months with God
- Eid al-Fitr
- the feast that follows the fast, on the first day of Shawwal
- taraweeh
- the congregational night prayer special to the month of Ramadan
- the excused
- those excused from fasting under conditions the law lays out
- the Qur'an's descent
- the noble Book's descent beginning in this blessed month
- taqwa (God-consciousness)
- the God-consciousness that fasting grows within the heart and deed
- dawn
- the day's start of the fast, at the true dawn's rising
- sunset
- the day's end of the fast, at the sun's setting
