Ramadan is approaching

[bizzle 10]

Had a lovely fast wooooooooo woooooooooooo :banana: Had my lovely brothers here from London & had a lovely meal followed by a deserved drink, god, water has never tasted so good

 

I thought I would seen how I go on today & thought to myself if I dont end up at the A&E Dept by tonight. I will keep one the following day & defo will try. I think I have done well woooooooooo wooooooooo

 

ps Glamrock you would not get it = HAPPY never mind, eh

 

Also like myself for some who has never fasted before I am/was pretty excited bout it...so to me it is something out of the ordinary.

[Wildcat 10]

Had a lovely fast wooooooooo woooooooooooo :banana: Had my lovely brothers here from London & had a lovely meal followed by a deserved drink, god, water has never tasted so good

 

I thought I would seen how I go on today & thought to myself if I dont end up at the A&E Dept by tonight. I will keep one the following day & defo will try. I think I have done well woooooooooo wooooooooo

 

ps Glamrock you would not get it = HAPPY never mind, eh

 

Also like myself for some who has never fasted before I am/was pretty excited bout it...so to me it is something out of the ordinary.

 

Just be careful, it is important to eat properly during Ramadan and take the dietary advice.

 

Someone I worked with made herself ill with the fasting and the doctor told her she had to give it up, she was really dissappointed.

 

She ate better on her second attempt and she found it much easier.

[Alastair 12]

Good luck to all you Ramadan people, I respect the self discipline it takes.

[Halibut 12]

Good luck to all you Ramadan people, I respect the self discipline it takes.

 

Yeah, me too - ain't it a shame that the usual clowns show up to try and demean other folks attempts at self-improvement?

[Fareast 10]

I worked in Saudi Arabia for 3 years, perhaps the most orthodox of all Muslim countries. I would guess the routine for most Saudis was this :- In Ramadan, as soon as the daylight had officially gone, they would have a huge meal. Then, more or less all night, they would be shopping, socialising, eating snacks.....etc....

 

A lot of shops, restaurants and supermarkets were open 24/7, especially during Ramadan. Then, just before dawn, there would be a gigantic breakfast. During Ramadan, life in the cities I worked in [ Riyadh and Abha ], virtually ground to a halt where the Saudis were concerned as a lot of them were asleep or taking it very easy. In other words they had simply turned night into day which, more or less, defeats the object of the fasting, I would have thought.

 

I also worked for 6 years in an easy-going Muslim country, Turkey, and there it was a different story. Those who chose to fast [ at the time I was there, about 70 % I guess ], did lead pretty normal lives during Ramadan, though they still tended to have big spreads post-dusk and pre-dawn. It must have been quite difficult for the smokers, guzzlers and stuffers to get through a normal day.

 

I don't know what all this proves. Personally, I think if one goes through life being as kind and helpful as possible ...or practical.....etc..... in everyday life, there's no need to be physically reminded of how some people in the world suffer in order to then gain spiritual enhancement. Also, why does this spiritual experience have to be done en masse and with ritual ? Why can't people do it privately ? Surely, it would be just as valued in the eyes of God or Allah ?

 

Years ago, people would often smugly announce, " Oh, no chocolate for me. I've given it up for Lent. " For all we knew, they gobbled it down like crazy the rest of the year. The ' good life ' can be lived every day and we shouldn't need to be physically reminded of it. That's what the old self-scourgers and hair-vest wearers did in days of yore----a bit primitive for the 21 st. century, I would say.

[gal-tray 10]

i dont think halibut was being negative just honest, there are clowns on here with silly comments that are just so out of place and not neccessary

[Naz25 10]

Thanks Alastair and Halibut. I think it is really easy for people who have never kept a fast to make judgements on others. Im sure there are people who do stuff them selves, but everyone is different. Keeping the fasts is one of the five pillars of Islam and at the end of it all only allah swt will be able to judge a persons behaviour. Hence actually keeping the fasts is the most important thing, whether or not you stuff your selves and are humble etc would be an add on. No one said Muslims are perfect.

[Incubus 10]

Yeah, me too - ain't it a shame that the usual clowns show up to try and demean other folks attempts at self-improvement?

 

whats the self-improvement value of starving yourself all day then scoffing all night to make up for it?

[metaphoria 10]

Damn. I've just been eating Caviar. I feel so ashamed...

[quicken 10]

Damn. I've just been eating Caviar. I feel so ashamed...

 

so you should bloody gross

[metaphoria 10]

All the best for those who fast, I'm not as strong as you in that way. But do appreciate that others suffer more than us, and will make a donation.

 

Am so embarassed about eating Caviar today.

 

Sorry.

[bizzle 10]

Thank you WildCat for your advice

 

Day 2 & I am still & woooo friggin wooo. Today was much better yesterday.