sunnahfastSunnah fasting days in August 2023
August 2023 spans Muharram 1445 – Safar 1445 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.
16 Muharram 1445 AH Thursday fast
20 Muharram 1445 AH Monday fast
23 Muharram 1445 AH Thursday fast
27 Muharram 1445 AH Monday fast
1 Safar 1445 AH Thursday fast
5 Safar 1445 AH Monday fast
8 Safar 1445 AH Thursday fast
12 Safar 1445 AH Monday fast
13 Safar 1445 AH White Day (Ayyam al-Beed)
15 Safar 1445 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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