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Jump to: navigation, search  Suhūr (Arabic: سحورsuḥūr, lit. "of
the dawn", "pre-dawn meal"; also spelled suhoor, sahur, or
sehri) is an Islamic term referring to the meal consumed early
in the morning by Muslims before fasting, sawm, before sunrise
during the Islamic month of Ramadan. The meal is eaten before
fajr prayer.[1] Suhur as the morning meal is matched by Iftar as
the evening meal, during Ramadan, replacing the traditional
three meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner),[2] although in
some places dinner is also consumed after Iftar later during the
night. Being the last meal eaten by Muslims before fasting from
dawn to sunset during the month of Ramadan, suhur is regarded by
Islamic traditions as a benefit of the blessings in that it
allows the person fasting to avoid the crankiness or the
weakness caused by the fast.  According to a hadith in Sahih
Bukhari, narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "take suhur
as there is a blessing