Today is a fasting day for Muslims.

[Sam_777]

It is called “Day of Ashura”.

Some Sunni Muslims fasting it because it represents the Jewish “Seventh day of Passover”.
Some Shia Muslims fasting it because of martyrdom of Ali’s son.

I personally fasting it today although I’m not convinced that it is the same Jewish day because they use different calendar than the Islamic one.

 

[SingleMomMonica]

It is called “Day of Ashura”.

Some Sunni Muslims fasting it because it represents the Jewish “Seventh day of Passover”.
Some Shia Muslims fasting it because of martyrdom of Ali’s son.

I personally fasting it today although I’m not convinced that it is the same Jewish day because they use different calendar than the Islamic one.

Fasting because of Tradition is a very good thing. Helps us to remember that we are to depend on God, not in food or other temporal things.

Is this Fast like Rahmadan where the fasting is from sunrise to sunset from all food & drink?

 

[Splinker]

It is called “Day of Ashura”.

Some Sunni Muslims fasting it because it represents the Jewish “Seventh day of Passover”.
Some Shia Muslims fasting it because of martyrdom of Ali’s son.

I personally fasting it today although I’m not convinced that it is the same Jewish day because they use different calendar than the Islamic one.

Hope you have an easy fast.

 

[Byzantine_Wolf]

It is called “Day of Ashura”.

Some Sunni Muslims fasting it because it represents the Jewish “Seventh day of Passover”.
Some Shia Muslims fasting it because of martyrdom of Ali’s son.

I personally fasting it today although I’m not convinced that it is the same Jewish day because they use different calendar than the Islamic one.

Ah yes. Didn’t the Sunnis enact their holiday in response to the Shia commemoration?

 

[Sam_777]

Fasting because of Tradition is a very good thing. Helps us to remember that we are to depend on God, not in food or other temporal things.

Is this Fast like Rahmadan where the fasting is from sunrise to sunset from all food & drink?

Yes.

Ah yes. Didn’t the Sunnis enact their holiday in response to the Shia commemoration?

No, because Muhammed told to fast this day before the martyrdom of Ali’s son.

Hope you have an easy fast.

Thanks , however, do you know the exact day according to your calendar?

 

[Splinker]

Passover for us is not for another four months or so. Did you perhaps mean Hanuakah?

 

[Sam_777]

Passover for us is not for another four months or so. Did you perhaps mean Hanuakah?

No, the Seventh day of the Passover (when the splitting of the sea and the drowning of Pharaoh had occurred), maybe you can specify for us the exact date within the next four months so someone might fast that day also…

 

[Sister_Amy]

What Muslims are honoring in the fast is not Passover exactly, but more specifically the prophet Moses, and the liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. (Perhaps I am incorrect in assuming there to be a difference here, so please forgive me if that be the case.)

It is now an optional and not mandatory fast, and does not coincide with any particular date on the Jewish calendar of which I am aware (though I’ll admit I could be wrong–is there a typical Jewish fast for passover?) What we can understand from authentic narrations is that the Jews of Medina (which is not to say all Jews, allow me to point out) were fasting on that day. Were they following a lunar or hybrid solar-lunar calendar at the time? I don’t know. The fast is part of Sunni tradition based on the authentic instructions from the Prophet Muhammad to fast that day, plus one additional day (i.e., the day preceding or following.)

The observance of Shi’a Muslims on Ashura is quite something altogether, and as Sam correctly pointed out, an observance of an event which took place many years after the Prophet Muhammad himself instructed Muslims to fast on that day.

Maybe someone could share more about Passover rituals–that would indeed be interesting to learn.