“Rukyah”, The New Moon Of Ramadan In Malaysia | ‘I Feel Closer to My Faith Than I Did Before’: Holding On to Ramadan

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA – JUNE 05: An officer of Malaysia’s Islamic authority uses a telescope to perform “rukyah”, the sighting of the new moon of Ramadan, in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur on June 5, 2016. Muslims scan the sky at dusk in the beginning of the lunar calendar’s ninth month in search of the new moon to proclaim the start of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month during which observant believers fast from dawn to dusk. Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan with the Eid al-Fitr festival. (Photo by Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)