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Man, you been eating gulab jamuns all night long?
if that's what you call gulab jamun than i feel bad for you son
Man, you been eating gulab jamuns all night long?
Not a Muslim, just curious. Someone who works nights, say they wake up at 7pm and work from 9pm to 6am and sleep around 11 or noon. Would they receive permission from an imam to fast during the night hours ? What happens here.
Good Luck everyone
I gave up on Islam long time ago and used to fast like a mad man back in the ol' days
I'll miss the Roo Afza with tukmalanga, Egg Rolls galore (beef keema or oriental chicken + noodles, home made), chana chaat and Pakoras
Doesn't help I just had surgery and have a 3' gaping hole on my left butt cheek lol
Hope you guys get through them easily!
For anyone going WTF is tukmalanga, this:
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I'm in the same boat but I still fast. I guess it's more of a cultural thing for me than a religious requirement. Never heard of tukmalanga, looks delicious though, is it a south asian drink?
No. They have to fast the same period as everyone else...they can't have their own prescribed fasting period.
Fair enough. Just feels to me like he's got it easy. Eat all he likes while he's working and then sleep when the suns up.
Energy restored.
Same feeling after breaking my fast with some watermelon. So good! No fruit has ever had that effect on me before.
Really need to quit swearing though...far too ingrained in my normal speech, it's disturbing.
It hasn't been as hard as I though. But its a bit difficult to eat food at night. It seems my apatite is off :/
Ramadhan mubarak my brothers. First one for me today in US as I followed the moon sighting.
Thank you for this. I wish muslims would stick to the sunnah of the Prophet and we would have more unity.
Damn coworkers eating lunch in their cubicles
Not a Muslim, just curious. Someone who works nights, say they wake up at 7pm and work from 9pm to 6am and sleep around 11 or noon. Would they receive permission from an imam to fast during the night hours ? What happens here.
No words.Qatari hospitals have begun receiving scores of patients suffering severe abdominal pains as a result of overeating during the first night of Ramadan, with an average of up to 15 patients expected to be admitted each night during the holy month.
Most of the cases at the emergency room during Ramadan are gastritis, we see between 10 to 15 cases of overeating every day, a medical staff member at Al Ahli Hospital told Arabian Business on Wednesday, the first night of the holy month of Ramadan.
They generally start arriving at the emergency room around 8-8:30pm in severe gastric pain and with repeated vomiting. They cant stop vomiting without medication because there is an inflammation of the mucosa of the stomach, the staff member said.
Patients were treated with intravenous injections of a mix of medications including painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs and emetics.
Last year, over 100 people were admitted to the emergency department of a Doha hospital suffering from abdominal pains after the first night of Ramadan, with other patients also suffering the effects of dehydration and kidney problems.
Usually during summer we receive many patients having GE (gastroenteritis) and because many people tend to eat a lot during Ramadan, they usually fall victim to foods that are not properly stored and which have got some bacteria accumulated on it. The people then suffer diarrhoea, stomach upset and vomiting after eating such food, Dr Warda Ali Al Sadd, chief consultant of the emergency department at the Hamad Medical Corporation told the Doha-based Gulf Times newspaper last year.
We have also received many patients suffering from renal colic due to a combination of dehydration, hot weather and fasting and triggered by their kidney or urethral stones, Al-Sadd added.
During the first week of Ramadan in 2011, reported figures showed that 7,700 cases of fasting-related illnesses were registered at the emergency department of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
A report this week by the United Nations found populations in the Gulf have been rated as among the fattest in the world, with almost half of adults in Kuwait classed as obese.
The State of Food and Agriculture study said that rising obesity rates could cost the global economy $47trn over the next two decades, due to loss of labour productivity and fees associated with treating lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
Kuwait led the way with the highest proportion of obese adults in the GCC, with 42.8 percent falling into this bracket in 2008, followed by Saudi Arabia at 35.2 percent. In the UAE, 33.7 percent of the population were identified as having a serious weight problem, while in Qatar it was 33.1 percent and Bahrain 32.6 percent.
The report said that the prevalence of overweight and obese adults was rising in nearly all regions, with the global average increasing from 24 percent in 1980 to 34 percent to 2008.
Muslim clerics scan the horizon for the crescent moon that will determine the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 8, 2013.
A Palestinian man reads verses from the Quran, Islam's holy book, at al-Omari mosque on the first day of Ramadan, on July 10, 2013 in Gaza City.
Thousands of people sit on Istiklal Avenue, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 9, 2013. Thousands broke the fast on the first day of Ramadan in a kind of spontaneous form of protest sitting in a line of some hundred meters from Galatasaray University to Taksim Square on the street chanting slogans while eating together.
Anti-government protesters eat as they break their fast on the first day Ramadan as police officers take position at Taksim Square in Istanbul, on July 9, 2013. Turkish police allowed thousands of protesters who have been trying to block the redevelopment of a park in Istanbul to break their Ramadan fast on Tuesday before resuming efforts to get them to leave the area.
Turkish anti-government protesters break their first day of fasting for of Ramadan on Istiklal street, on July 9, 2013 in Istanbul.
Workers clean the floor of the Badshahi Mosque ahead of the holy month of Ramadan in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 9, 2013.
Indonesian Muslim women hold prayers on the first night of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, on July 9, 2013.
Muslims pray in the first Tarawih to mark the start of the month of Ramadan in Cheng Ho Mosque on July 9, 2013 in Surabaya, Indonesia.
A child leans down near members of the Muslim community attending midday prayers at Strasbourg Grand Mosque in Strasbourg, France on the first day of Ramadan, July 9, 2013
Mosque workers prepare food for distribution to the poor and Muslims who come to break their fast at Noor Mosque in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 10, 2013.
A pastry chef holds a tray of Arabic sweets at his bakery in Gaza City on the eve of the start of Ramadan, on July 9, 2013.
Muslims attend an evening communal prayer session called "Tarawih" to mark the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Bajrakli mosque in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 9, 2013.
People nap while waiting to break their fast in Istiqlal mosque during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jakarta, on July 10, 2013.
An Indonesian woman plays a game on her tablet during a sermon on the first night of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, on July 9, 2013.
Serious question
Does this particular period affect sex in any way?
You cannot have sex/intercourse during the fasting period.
But you can do it as much as you want after the break, hahaha.
You can't look at girls at all. It's forbidden all year round. Unless of course, it's your wife, or family.Can you look at girls during fasting?
Can you look at girls during fasting?
You can't look at girls at all. It's forbidden all year round. Unless of course, it's your wife, or family.
btw, while I don't fast, I sure appreciate iftar food
You can't look at girls at all. It's forbidden all year round. Unless of course, it's your wife, or family.
btw, while I don't fast, I sure appreciate iftar food
Why are you so shocked? Allah did say:What the... towards the bolded.
Of course you can look at girls. Hell there are so many females where I work I need to basically wrap my eyes in bandages if I can't look at the opposite sex.
However during fasting, it is not allowed to look at the opposite sex in a lusting manner. One need to suppress any sexual thoughts as best as he/she possibly could during the fasting, and as such looking at materials/things that may provoke such thoughts are not allowed.
قل للمؤمنين يغضوا من أبصارهم ويحفظوا فروجهم ذلك أزكى لهم إن الله خبير بما يصنعون
It won't break your fast no matter how hard you look, but you also won't receive the full ajr. As long as you don't reach ejaculation, your fast is still intact.An example: if I during my fasting spot a beautiful girl wearing a mini skirt, my fast would not be cancelled just because I see her. But if I purposefully look at her again and again, only then my fasting would be questionable.
That's what I'm saying. Lowering your gaze = not directly looking at her face = not looking at her.dude ..., what ... lol that's not how it goes. You're supposed to keep your gaze down in a respectful manner, not completely avoid contact like freaking medusa.
Translation: "Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts. That is purer for them. Indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what they do."
What does this mean exactly?
Hide our boners?
Woah dude, not good for you in the long termLast night I had a double chicken zinger with double cheese, 4 donuts, french fries, and about half a KG of Jalebis.
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You would be surprised how little 1 lb of Jalebis is. It's actually not as much as you think.I'm already way behind on my goal of one read through of the Quran. Must catchup on those daily targets.
Woah dude, not good for you in the long term
I love jalebis a lot but I cant eat that much of it in one sitting.
Why?Tonight will be the last day to cheat.
Why?
Gotcha. Interesting way of doing things.Out of seven days, I cheat two days. So tonight is the second cheat night. After tonight it will be 5 days of keto :/, until I break again.
I still have a slight headache from yesterday's fast. Just got done with suhoor and no matter what I can't seem to drink more than 2 glasses of water I think it's me trying to over eat during suhoor (even though it was only 2 rotis) and not leaving enough room for water. Gah.How have the first two fasts been for Muslim-GAF?
Only the first Saher was a bit difficult for me (understandably) as I didnt feel hungry. It's amazing that within one day the biological clock has adjusted such that now I'm hungry during Saher time.
I'm already way behind on my goal of one read through of the Quran. Must catchup on those daily targets.
O_OLast night I had a double chicken zinger with double cheese, 4 donuts, french fries, and about half a KG of Jalebis.
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Why are you so shocked? Allah did say:
Translation: "Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts. That is purer for them. Indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what they do."
In general, it's haraam as agreed by the majority of trusted clerics. The remaining few say it is halaal as long as the female is wearing hijab and only her hands and face are showing, provided no lust is involved.
If the female is not wearing any hijab, then it's haraam to look at her as agreed by all, unless absolutely necessary.
It won't break your fast no matter how hard you look, but you also won't receive the full ajr. As long as you don't reach ejaculation, your fast is still intact.
That's what I'm saying. Lowering your gaze = not directly looking at her face = not looking at her.
Mmmm cowsI've never met a Muslim who refused to look at woman. Lower your gaze means to either not stare at her tits, or not reducing your look at her as a sexual object. I'm not sure you're reflecting majority opinion there.
The hijab thing could go on all night with either side debating till the cows go home.
Can you look at girls during fasting?
Mmmm cows
So far so good.
Although 18.5 hours long, it hasnt been that bad at all.
That said, I do work in an office so it isnt very exerting in anyway.