Sahar: The Magic of Pre-Dawn

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The hour before sunrise holds a kind of quiet magic that most people sleep right through.

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Sahar is the hour just before sunrise — so still and soft that people have called it sacred for thousands of years. During the holy month, families wake in sahar to share a quiet meal together before the long fast begins each day. Poets across the Middle East and South Asia wrote their most beautiful lines about sahar — they said the veil between worlds grows thin right before dawn. If you wake just once before sunrise and sit in the quiet, you will feel exactly why every culture on earth gave that hour its own special name.