Christmas and the Jewish festival of Hanukkah both traditionally feature lots of food. But what about missing out on your meals though? This is what Muslims do during the 30 days of Ramadan. For this whole period they go without food, or 'fast', during daylight hours. This helps remind them how poor people without food suffer every day.

To Muslims, Ramadan, which falls in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar (and, in 2005, started on 4 October) is a time for lots of different feelings - from quiet reflection to noisy celebration! This is to remember the time the Prophet Muhammed was shown the Qu'ran -the sacred book of Islam. Muhammed started the religion 1,400 years ago.

The fast finishes with the big festival Eid-ul-Fitr, and everyone enjoys specially-cooked meals and puts on their best clothes to pray at mosque. Everyone must give money to charity so that poor people can buy new clothes and food – nobody is left out of the celebrations.