Mohammad Fanas wakes up local Muslims for “suhur” in the old city of Sidon, Lebanon (Photo: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

A man and children play traditional drums as they take part in the Musaharati, a Ramadan tradition where drummers wake people for the meal before the day’s fast, in Beirut, LebanonJamal Saidi/Reuters)

A man wakes up residents for their pre-dawn meals during the first day of Ramadan in Cairo, EgyptAmr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, drummers, wearing traditional Ottoman clothes, perform through the neighborhoods of Istanbul, early Monday June 6, 2016 to wake people for the "sahour", the traditional breakfast of Ramadan. More than 2000 drummers wander Istanbul's neighborhoods playing their drums in the early hours to wake up the residents as part of the holiday tradition. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)(Credit: AP)

On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a drummer, wearing traditional Ottoman clothes, performs in an Istanbul neighborhood, More than 2000 drummers wander through Istanbul's neighborhoods playing their drums in the early hours to wake up the residents as part of the holiday tradition. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a drummer, wearing traditional Ottoman clothes, performs on the streets of a neighborhood in Istanbul, early Monday June 6, 2016 to wake people for the "sahour", the traditional breakfast of Ramadan. More than 2000 drummers wander Istanbul's neighborhoods playing their drums in the early hours to wake up the residents as part of the holiday tradition. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

A drummer in a street in Abu Dhabi

In Old Cairo, a drummer beats a 100-year old drum to awaken people for suhur

Abdus-Samad Lone from Srinagar in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state has been waking up people with his drumming for suhur (called sehri in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) during Ramadan for the past two decades. People like Abdus-Samad are known as seher-khwan in the Valley.

Mohammad Rafiq Wani from Pampore in Kashmir, who regularly wakes up people for suhur in the month of Ramadan

A visually impaired Muslim man and a drummer roam the old city of Hyderabad in India to awaken people for suhur

Drummers receive money and grains on the day of Eid

Michel Ayoub, An Israeli Arab Christian, goes about at night with his tambourine in the town of Acre in Jerusalem, awakening Muslims for suhur (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)