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Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by eimrine »

hqudsi wrote: post #235
codersfocus wrote: post #139

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Islamic tradition values reason and rationality. It doesn’t say to blindly follow stuff. You still have to reason through new situations. The Quran is more for spiritual guidance even though it has some prescriptions. But most of the "rules" come from hadiths or the prophetic tradition which has been passed down orally before it was compiled into books by famous scholars. For example, the Quran says to pray but doesn…

> But the choice of dates is pretty arbitrary.

Of course it's not! It must be comfortable for farmers, and the farming season starts just now. I'm not a religious but I respect Islam as the most wise of religions, like an iPhone among other cell phones. I want to try fastening because I see some wisdom in having a month with feeding like that and I consider these days of year as totally not arbitrary.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by eganist »

ptnxlo wrote: post #234

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> By the way, I'm in my period, I'm impure. I can't Eid Mubarak :(

Hey, I'm having a hard time finding a reference for this. Can you source this claim that someone on their period can't celebrate Eid al-Fitr?

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by abustamam »

rsynnott wrote: post #98

I was unaware until this year that it was based on when the moon was _sighted_, not just on a conventional lunar calendar. This leads to very short notice public holidays in a couple of countries AIUI.

My local mosque (and many others in the area) use calculations, but my mom's mosque just a few cities away uses moon sighting. We ended up starting and ending Ramadan at the same time but there was uncertainty on her part until last night.

At the end of the day you just follow whatever mosque you go to. If you want to follow moonsighting but your mosque does calculation, where do you go to celebrate Eid if the days differ?

Personally I wouldn't go to a mosque that uses moonsighting because I like predictability. My boss is Muslim so she would understand but it's still annoying for the company if I just went "I'm off tomorrow byeee" the night before.

I imagine some Muslim countries differ in the same way (some use calc some use sighting), though I can't say off the top of my head which countries use calculation.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by kelipso »

agentwiggles wrote: post #205
girishso wrote: post #185

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What new smoking inventions? Genuinely interested.

Vaping, I assume. I admit with some shame that after over a decade off cigarettes, I'm currently re-addicted to nicotine via vaping. Over the past 10 years or so, I would buy a pack of smokes every once in a while (like, maybe once a year), and enjoy smoking at a party or concert or whatever. I never had trouble stopping after a few and would usually throw the rest of the pack away, it was honestly just too inconveni…

Juul is useful if you want to switch from smoking to vaping because the high percentage of nicotine makes it easy. But for the same reason, it's incredibly addictive. Also difficult to stop by tapering down because low nicotine percentage juul pods don't exist.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by mdp2021 »

zvmaz wrote: post #195
dang wrote: post #103

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It's going too far to interpret this as "tangent to proselytism". People can wish each other well without coming close to that. The occasional celebratory post is fine on HN. If it were to become repetitive, it would get tedious quickly and we would downweight such posts in keeping with standard practice (see [1] and [2] about that). [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... [2] https://hn.a…

For my part, I did interpret it as clear proselytism: > A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say check it out! After over 20 years of doing it I'm still learning something new every year, or I should say, unlearning bad habits we've created for ourselves as a society through abunda…

You could also have interpreted it as advice: "been there, learnt something" is what is clearly written. Guidelines: «Assume good faith».

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by biorach »

counttheforks wrote: post #216
hd4 wrote: post #156

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No I didn't say that at all, and that's a petulant response honestly. Re-read my comment. I said Islam instructs people to make their feelings subordinate to them rather than the other way around. The other replies to the GP were not so different from what I'm saying. You're hardly required to state your sexual orientation each time you pray, if that's the sort of line of reasoning you're taking here.

Perhaps I misunderstood you? What did you mean with > instead you are seen as a blank slate and whatever actions you do impact your life here and the life hereafter I assumed you meant that people will be welcomed because they are a blank slate that can be written upon by those seeking to influence them.

I read it as you are your own blank slate to write on as you choose

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by mdp2021 »

uthinter wrote: post #233
anon223345 wrote: post #63

I have new neighbors who are Muslim, how would I wish them happy Eid Mubarak? Like a card or something? I barely know them they’re new, but want them to feel welcome, think they might be the only Muslim neighbors

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If you are afraid of offending people through interactions, what makes you comfortable here instead?

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by hqudsi »

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…

As long as you are properly hydrated before it's really not that bad.

Even this Ramadan, when I went to pee later in the day, the color wasn't dark implying I wasn't that dehydrated.

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