{"id":9491,"date":"2024-03-12T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2024-03-12T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:30:09","slug":"ramadhan-to-start-on-wednesday-in-new-zealand-and-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9491","title":{"rendered":"Ramadhan to start on Wednesday in New Zealand and Fiji ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims in New Zealand will be starting their month long fasting from Wednesday as the new moon was not sighted last night which has been confirmed by\u00a0 Fianz and Fiji Muslim League.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is one of the most sacred times for Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>It is the month in which Islamic holy book, Quran was sent down from heaven as a guidance for men and women, a declaration of direction, and a means of salvation.<\/p>\n<p>During this month, Muslims observe a strict fast from dawn until sunset and then Eid is celebrated following the sighting of the new moon a month later.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to Radio Apna for Saheri program daily from 330am with Shaiyaz Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims in New Zealand will be starting their month long fasting from Wednesday as the new moon was not sighted last night which has been confirmed by\u00a0 Fianz and Fiji Muslim League. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is one of the most sacred times for Muslims. It is the month in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}