The first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan

[Sister Harb]

Back dropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque, Palestinian Muslim worshippers eat together as they take part in a communal breaking of the fast during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. During Ramadan observant Muslims fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)


A survivor of the October 8, 2005 earthquake prepares chapatti (a type of bread) for Iftar (fast-breaking) in Mara Tanolian village, near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, September 29, 2006. The Islamic fasting month of Ramadan began in sombre mood in northern Pakistan on Monday, nearly a year after an earthquake struck the mountainous region, killing 73,000 people. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)


A man prays over the grave of his relative who was killed in the October 8, 2005 earthquake, in Mara Tanolian village, near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on September 29, 2006. The Islamic fasting month of Ramadan began in sombre mood in northern Pakistan on Monday, nearly a year after an earthquake struck the mountainous region, killing 73,000 people. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)


Muslims pray on the first Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a mosque in Peshawar September 29,2006. REUTERS/Ali Imam (PAKISTAN)


A Kenyan Muslim prays at the Jamia Mosque during the first Friday of the month of Ramadan in the capital Nairobi September 29, 2006. Thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Nairobi after prayers on Friday to accuse Kenyan police of discriminate arrests and harassment. According to the demonstrators, the Friday rally was fuelled by recent arrests of a Muslim man outside the Israeli Embassy and the arrest of a man whose car was implicated in a recent shootout with police. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)


People pass by an Islamic exhibition set up for the holy month of Ramadan at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday Sept. 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)


Backdropped by the Dome of the Rock Mosque, thousands of Palestinian Muslim worshippers pray during the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. During Ramadan observant Muslims fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)


An old Muslim sheikh prays at the Umayyad Mosque in downtown Damascus on Friday, Sept. 29 2006, the first Friday in the Muslims' holy month of Ramadan, which marks the time when the Muslim holy book the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad and is marked with dawn-to-dusk fasting and religious reflection. (AP Photo / Bassem Tellawi).


Palestinians pray during the first Friday of Ramadan at the Omar mosque in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, September 29, 2006. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK)


Muslim children play with a cart inside the Jama mosque before the first Friday prayer of Muslim holy month of Ramadan in old Delhi, September 29, 2006. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore (INDIA)


Kashmiri survivors of last year's October 8 earthquake offer first Friday prayers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at a damaged mosque in the earthquake-devastated city of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir September 29, 2006. The Islamic fasting month of Ramadan began in sombre mood in northern Pakistan on Monday, nearly a year after an earthquake struck the mountainous region, killing 73,000 people. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)


Muslims offer afternoon prayers at a mosque in the old city area of New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)


Women wash themselves with rainwater outside a mosque before they join the first Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Dhaka, September 29, 2006. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman (BANGLADESH)