I start getting that Ramadan feeling at least a month before it starts....it starts slowly but builds up until the night before Ramadan I can barely wait for it to start...dont know why but I love Ramadan and Im always very sad to see it go. People are sooo much nicer during Ramadan...we are all trying to be on our best manners...no fighting arguing....bad language etc....making peace with family or friends that you might have been estranged from...reading the Quran everyday until you have finished it...night prayers with everyone in the mosque...listening to the Quran while your cooking iftar....its really the most peaceful of times for me.
The best thing about this Ramadan coming is that I am divorced now so I will not have to put up with the bad behavoir of my ex who made us crazy cause of his inability to handle no smoking for a few hours...made our Ramadans miserable....yay for me and the kids....a smoke free pain in the *** free Ramadan...cant wait...lol.
Anyone else...?
2007-07-29 22:16:23 · 10 answers · asked by coolred38 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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we are not "forced" to observe Ramdan....we do it because we consider ourselves Muslims and followers of Islam which prescribe observing Ramadan. You make it sound like a prison sentence or something and its so far from that....its like being set free from prison...the prison of conforming to this life and all its trials and burdens...just being free of all that for at least a month...and hopefully longer
2007-07-29 22:46:04 · update #1
i feel like that every year.
its liek our own christmas, but better.
its hard not eating most of teh day, but afterwards its so rewarding. i love the spirit of ramadan. my mom makes a big dinner and she makes sweets. and we go pray in the masjid. its just beautiful.
RAMADAN KAREEM!
2007-07-29 22:45:49 · answer #1 · answered by nijjy_nij 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We muslims do not anticipate ramadhan the dsame way as Christmas for christians.Christians prepare Christmas for celebrating feast or like a festival.We started our preparation by watrming up fasting 2 months before Ramadhan.By fasting we should control our lusts or desires.We are waiting the sacred month of Ramadhan with happy feelings.We hope God will give us the chance for having good fasting in Ramadhan the 9th month of islamic calendar.At night durinmg Ramadhan we should pray for 11 or 23 bows together with other muslims in mosques.It is called tarweh shalat.In 14 hours during the day since before down up to the beginning of a night we should fast without foods and drinks and we should ovoid bad doings.After we break our fasting we will start our taraweh and holy Qur'an reading after we pray for maghrib at the beginning of a night.Our healthy will be improved by fasting and our faith to Allah will be strengthened too..At the end of Ramadhan we will heve Idul Fitri where we usually ask forgiveness among our family,relatives and muslim friends..During Ramadhan all satans will be detained.Oh why are you divorced.?Please search as soon as possible its replacement so you can be served by the new wife during the coming next Ramadhan..It is still enough time for you.May God bless you all.
Salam.
2007-07-30 05:54:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know my husband does! And his family has already started making cookies and preparing the house. This is going to be my husband's first Ramadan away from home, and although he will still fast of course, he keeps telling me that half the joy will be gone because he'll be missing those childhood smells and things like that (which is the same way I've felt about Christmas after two years away from my country!)
2007-07-30 11:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by nomadic 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is not Christian holiday anymore. The society has made it all about a red and white fat man.
Every one benefits from Santa, he makes children happy and toy companies rich and so on
The Christ has been erased from CHRISTmas.
Its X-mas now.
I know I didn't answer the question, but seriously, Christmas has been ruined for Christians, its become an atheist holiday, even Muslims celebrate it.
2007-07-30 05:53:13 · answer #4 · answered by Someone 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do so much!
What's with that fool that said we were forced?!
God help those like him. Does he know many Christians fast leading up to Christmas? That it is supposed to be a HOLY DAY not a HOLIDAY (GIFTS, DRINKING, and "GOOD TIMES")?
2007-07-30 13:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by Amber 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes, before a holiday where there is celebration of tradition and spiritualism. followers and traditionalists look forward and feel a certain nostalgia for the upcoming holiday.
2007-07-30 05:29:01 · answer #6 · answered by my ki 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wanna fast the delayed first ,,,, hahahaha forsure no one understand me
2007-07-31 06:38:47 · answer #7 · answered by Bossy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Muslims are forced to participate in Ramadan while Christians look forward to Christmas. Muslims can't work or eat or do anything during the day during Ramadan (so they live night lives instead), while Christians generally enjoy Christmas traditions.
2007-07-30 05:21:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋
It sounds beautiful. I wish you well for the time and always
2007-07-30 05:20:46 · answer #9 · answered by Lucrezia 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
i would guess to me christmas is just another day
2007-07-30 05:19:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋