Ramadan Mubarak!

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oh my!:( i knew this day'll come..i was hoping to dely the traditionalists vs. liberals showdown to a time when it'll be expected to bring more good than harm..i'm not sure that time nor place have come.

should we focus on the thread title and put this whole thing in the freezer for now sam?:)

what's wrong with tradions? traditions is what gives the modernety it's speciality.
 
SHADOW! WHEN THE FUDGE DID YOU GET 2000+ POSTS??
aside from that, your sentence is self contradictory.
trying to clear it up will open debate.
debate that i'm sure has little or nothing to do with ramadan.

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i've snapped some pics today and a vid from the haram, "personal" ones as string said. i'll be heading back home tomorrow, i'll upload them asap.
 
As-salamu alaykum. :)

Yesterday I fainted from hunger and sleepdepravation, outdoors, very embarrassing.
I had been travelling all day and didn't didn't have time to eat when it was time to eat.
Allthough I "cheated" and ate an icecream during the day, but aren't there exceptions for travelling people?
 
As-salamu alaykum. :)

Yesterday I fainted from hunger and sleepdepravation, outdoors, very embarrassing.
I had been travelling all day and didn't didn't have time to eat when it was time to eat.
Allthough I "cheated" and ate an icecream during the day, but aren't there exceptions for travelling people?

Woah. Try and take it easy. :eek:

Travellers are exempt from fasting, however : A traveller (one who is undertaking a journey of more than 77 kms (48 miles) and does not intend staying more than 14 days at his destination).

Also:

If by travelling, a person will not experience any difficulties by fasting, e.g. he is travelling by train and feels that he will reach his destination by the evening or he has all the necessary items which will give him comfort during the course of the journey, in such a case it will be preferable to fast even though he is still regarded as a traveller (musafir). But if he does not fast despite all these comforts, even then there will be no sin on him. However, he will be deprived of the virtue of fasting in the month of Ramadan. If a person experiences difficulties because of fasting during the course of his journey, in such a case it will be better not to fast.
 
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As-salamu alaykum. :)

Yesterday I fainted from hunger and sleepdepravation, outdoors, very embarrassing.
I had been travelling all day and didn't didn't have time to eat when it was time to eat.
Allthough I "cheated" and ate an icecream during the day, but aren't there exceptions for travelling people?

there's always expetion, you can eat ,if you are in travel, sick, old, a kid, etc... anything will affect badly on your health. but you'll have to fast that day that you eated in it, in another day. :p
there's always expetions in islam, for it wan't be very hard or harmful to the people who are muslims.
 
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SHADOW! WHEN THE FUDGE DID YOU GET 2000+ POSTS??
aside from that, your sentence is self contradictory.
trying to clear it up will open debate.
debate that i'm sure has little or nothing to do with ramadan.

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i've snapped some pics today and a vid from the haram, "personal" ones as string said. i'll be heading back home tomorrow, i'll upload them asap.

i think i got them from here :p
http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=103164
anyway, you want to debat about what exactly?

ah, great, you're in saudi arabia? you work their ?
 
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i found a picture, in kairouan;tunisia, for trawih pray.
in the great mosque, kairouan is famous with it.
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Last 10 days of Ramadan. Ramadan has been easy this year, with cool weather and the comforts of home.

Today onwards are the major fasts. Laylat al Qadr [the anniversary of the revelation of the Quran] is celebrated on one of the odd numbered days of these last ten days.

In the Name of Allah, the Benevolent, the Merciful.
1 Lo! We revealed it on the Night of Predestination.
2 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Night of Power is!
3 The Night of Power has more blessings than a thousand months.
4 The angels and the Spirit descend therein, by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees.
5 (The night is) Peace until the rising of the dawn.

The verses above regard the Night as better than one thousand months. The whole month of Ramadan is a period of spiritual training wherein believers devote much of their time to fasting, praying, reciting the Quran, remembering God, and giving charity. However because of the revealed importance of this night, Muslims strive harder in the last ten days of Ramadan since the Laylat al-Qadr could be one of the odd-numbered days in these last ten (the first, third, fifth, seventh or ninth). Normally, some Muslims from each community would perform an i'tikaf in the mosque: they remain in the mosque for the last ten days of the month for prayers and recitation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laylat_al-Qadr


For todays big fast [21st] we are celebrating with a whole roast leg of lamb cooked with long grain rice for iftaar - what we call as Dum ki Raan.

The NYT has a great slideshow on Ramadan in Cairo

Click on image below to see it:


Ramadan in Cairo is indeed a serious religious observance, with Muslims purifying themselves through self-restraint, good deeds and prayer during the day. But that it is also their faith's most festive holiday, and at night the city lights up with feasting and socializing.

Photo: Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times




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With the Dome of the Rock Mosque seen in the background, a Palestinian Muslim worshiper prays during the third Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Shop owner Boualem Bensalem (left) prays in his flat with family and friends before for Iftar meal in Geneva, Switzerland on August 23, 2010. Switzerland is home to some 311,000 Muslims (4.3% of the population). (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse) #
 
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As-salamu alaykum. :)

Yesterday I fainted from hunger and sleepdepravation, outdoors, very embarrassing.
I had been travelling all day and didn't didn't have time to eat when it was time to eat.
Allthough I "cheated" and ate an icecream during the day, but aren't there exceptions for travelling people?


Take care,you do not grasp a headache and vomiting.
 
No, no, no. Its the 5770th New Year in 2 days. The real NY - the first and longest surviving one, issued at Sinai. )

And a very happy Navroze Mubarak to you too~p

The 27th day of Ramadan. Its considered one of the most auspicious days of the Muslim calendar. I made some nice liquid kheer to drink for iftaar!

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The crescent moon is seen near mosques in old Cairo on the fifth day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on August 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih) #


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Muslim pilgrims pray inside the Grand Mosque, with the Mecca Clock in the background, on the second day of the fasting month of Ramadan in Mecca August 12, 2010. The giant clock on a skyscraper in Islam's holiest city Mecca began ticking on Wednesday at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, amid hopes by Saudi Arabia that it will become the Muslim world's official timekeeper.


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Thousands of Muslims gather in the Grand Mosque, in Islam's holiest city of Mecca and home to the Kaaba (center), as they take part in dawn (fajir) prayers on August 29, 2010, to start their day-long fast during the holy month or Ramadan.
 
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Well guys its that time of the year again!!!

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Happy Ramadan!!!

From the gazillion posts here about this, I guess I'm the only one who questions the sanitary conditions of that "food service" method?

Would the FDA approve that method of serving food to patrons of any public restaurant or eatery?

And notice the little boy's dress is dragging in the food bowls behind him. And ...are the bottom of some of those bowls sitting ON TOP of the food in the bows below? Yum, yum, tasty treats?!

Geez, I don't know, but perhaps it might explain something about Ramadan .....the people have to be practically starving to death to eat food served in such a manner. :confused:

Happy Ramadan, SAM,

Baron Max
 
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From the gazillion posts here about this, I guess I'm the only one who questions the sanitary conditions of that "food service" method?

Would the FDA approve that method of serving food to patrons of any public restaurant or eatery?

And notice the little boy's dress is dragging in the food bowls behind him. And ...are the bottom of some of those bowls sitting ON TOP of the food in the bows below? Yum, yum, tasty treats?!

Geez, I don't know, but perhaps it might explain something about Ramadan .....the people have to be practically starving to death to eat food served in such a manner. :confused:

Happy Ramadan, SAM,

Baron Max

LOL, don't take that picture seriously ;)
we have here, like,tables, places, where poor people can eat their for free.

perhaps you'll like to eat this
lol
http://poozen.blogspot.com/2006/12/1.html
 
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mida is a law table, like the japanese one, and can be round or square. sorry i couldnt find a picture.
but i really miss it :p we have one at home, but, long time since we used it before :p
 
From the gazillion posts here about this, I guess I'm the only one who questions the sanitary conditions of that "food service" method?

Would the FDA approve that method of serving food to patrons of any public restaurant or eatery?

And notice the little boy's dress is dragging in the food bowls behind him. And ...are the bottom of some of those bowls sitting ON TOP of the food in the bows below? Yum, yum, tasty treats?!

Geez, I don't know, but perhaps it might explain something about Ramadan .....the people have to be practically starving to death to eat food served in such a manner. :confused:

Happy Ramadan, SAM,

Baron Max

Think of it as eating peanuts at a bar where you're not sure if everyone who went to the bathroom washed their hands for as long as the Happy Birthday song. ;)

Thanks Baron, good to have you back.
 
So its finally Eid!

Happy Eid ul Fitr, everyone!

Pictures of Eid celebrations in India:

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Indian Muslim boys, left, greet each other as Muslim girls look on after Eid-al-Fitr prayers in Bangalore, India, Monday, Sept. 21. AP / Aijaz Rahi


By one of those strange coincidences, we are also celebrating Ganpati and the Novena of Mount Mary Church at the same time this week

So just to add to the flavour: Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

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And Happy Novena! Don't have a picture of the novena itself, but here is the Basilica Of Our Lady Of The Mount - its a beautiful old church

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One for the road. Am proud of all that sacrificed an additional day since declaring EID AL FITR is an inexact science to end the Holy month of Ramadon on this night.

 
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