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Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by HarryHirsch »

jorts wrote: post #20
yousifa wrote: post #6

I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn't do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things. As the Quran says: "Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before yo…

Thanks for that insight. I didn't realize it extended beyond food/water/certain vices.

The Christian tradition calls it "fasting, prayer and almsgiving".

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by joezydeco »

jimmyed wrote: post #7

Fasting is a great idea, but most of the Muslim friends I have eat through out the night after breaking the fast at sunset. I don't think that is very healthy.

My daughter is on a high school sports team with a number of Muslim girls and it was painful to watch these girls struggle through an after school practice with no access to water and no food all day.

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Post by Aeolun »

Eid Mubarak!

> no food or water

But really no water? That doesn’t sound healthy. Of course you can easily make it through a day without fluids but…

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by theobeers »

yousifa wrote: post #6

I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn't do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things. As the Quran says: "Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before yo…

No smoking all day is a big deal for many Muslims in the Middle East. One year I was living in Cairo during Ramadan, and each day when it got close to the sunset call to prayer (which heralds the end of the fast), it seemed like all the cab drivers had cigarettes in hand, waiting eagerly to light up.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by m5r »

Aeolun wrote: post #24

Eid Mubarak! > no food or water But really no water? That doesn’t sound healthy. Of course you can easily make it through a day without fluids but…

That's usually the first question that pops up when explaining it to non-Muslims haha but yes, really, no water either.
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