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. #

A cannon fires a ceremonial shot to start iftar, the evening meal for breaking fast, on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 6, 2016. #

A Bangladeshi vendor covers food items with a plastic sheet to save it from a rain while Muslim devotees break their fast on the first day of Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 7, 2016. #

Egyptian women dressed in their country's traditional clothing walk on al-Mezz street during a celebration ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in old Cairo, on June 2, 2016. #

A Musaharati, or dawn awakener, strikes his drum to wake observant Muslims for their overnight sahur, or last meal, before the day's fast during Ramadan in Sidon's Old City in south Lebanon just before dawn, June 8, 2016. #

Students sit in circles during a Quran recital class on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on June 6, 2016. #

A Muslim man prays before his iftar on the first day of Ramadan in India, at the Jama Masjid, or Grand Mosque, in the old quarters of Delhi, India, on July 7, 2016. #

A shop owner sells sweets as mainly Muslim Lebanese shop prior to iftar, or breaking of the daylong fast, in the old market in the ancient coastal city of Tripoli, north of Beirut, on June 6, 2016. #

A Palestinian man decorates his shop with fairy lights in the old city of Jerusalem on June 3, 2016, as Muslims around the world prepared for the announcement of the fasting month of Ramadan. #

Kashmiri Nomadic Muslims devotees listen to the sermons of a Muslim cleric as they gather at the forest shrine of Miyan Peer, on the first day of Ramadan, on June 7, 2016, in Baba Nagri, about 44 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, India. #

A Palestinian vendor rides a motorcycle cart with lighted traditional Ramadan lanterns, to mark the holy month of Ramadan at main beach road in Gaza City, on June 3, 2016. #

A Palestinian girl prays in front of the Dome of the Rock, at the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as The Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City during the holy month of Ramadan, on June 7, 2016. #