Sunnah fasting days in October 2021

October 2021 spans Safar 1443 – Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH on the standard Umm al-Qura reckoning. Below is every recommended fasting day in the month with its exact date. If your community's moon sighting runs a day ahead or behind, shift the Hijri dates by one day — the converter and calendar feed both have a ±1 sync setting for exactly this.

27 Safar 1443 AH Monday fast
1 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Thursday fast
5 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Monday fast
8 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Thursday fast
12 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Monday fast
13 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH White Day (Ayyam al-Beed)
15 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Thursday fast
19 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Monday fast
22 Rabi' al-awwal 1443 AH Thursday fast

To understand any of these days — the White Days, Mondays & Thursdays, Ashura, Arafah — the blog walks through each one with sources quoted verbatim.

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