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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 2:07 pm
(May 27, 2017 at 1:30 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I don't understand how being hungry or thirsty helps you relate or get closer to god, but then I don't have to.
Enjoy your month.
I think it's to help people realize how it feels to be poor, hungry and thirsty.
I like to think I'm playing my part by eating food and drinking ice cold drinks (slowly with lots of mmmmmmm noises) in front of the Muslims in work as much as possible. It makes the experience more real.
A weird fact I learned from freakonomics involved a lot of deaf children being born in a particular month in Islamic countries, it's because the mothers were fasting during pregnancy resulting in a surge of deaf babies.
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 2:14 pm
I would think taking action to help those in need is more important than inaction through self martyrdom.
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 3:19 pm
Is it limited to no food or fluids orally? I could get thru the day with an IV/SQ fluids running? Or this?:
Too much?
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 6:06 pm
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Sleep during the day and party all night! Damn, I feel 20 again!
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 6:23 pm
Ramadan always reminds me of.....
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 6:25 pm
Ramadan is easier in the southern hemisphere, shorter daylight duration . . .
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 6:28 pm
Islam isn't big in the southern hemisphere.
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 7:04 pm
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RE: Ramadan has come.
May 27, 2017 at 7:25 pm
(May 27, 2017 at 10:58 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Ramadan is the month the Quran was revealed in:
It's the month God revealed the Quran in. 1400 years ago, a mere guidance to humanity; so we might revive and become guided to the path of God.
That we see the light.
It's not about food, drinks, celebration and feasting. It's about tasting hunger and get closer to God.
Relate even more to him.
In Ramadan, one should fast from dawn to sunset. Never eating or drinking except after sunset.
God is always near. He always sees and hears.
Does he watch Alaskan Muslims die of thirst or does he watch them board a plane and fly south for the summer? An enquiring mind needs to know.
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