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described by many muslims as the hardest month of the year. Although the intentions of
Ramadan are to fast for thirty rigorous days for Allah (god), the reason that muslims fast
is because the month of Ramadan is believed to be the month when the holy Quran was
sent from heaven to our prophet Muhammed. From then, the Quran has guided muslims
through war when they desperately needed help. (Similar to how the Trojans depended
on Apollo to guide them through war against the Greeks).
Now, thirty days may seem hard, but it's actually ridiculously harder than most
people think. Although the outcome of Ramadan is to acheive purity, to concentrate on
faith, and to lose a of weight (the last on
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Muhammed recieved the Quran.
Many adults spend several hours a day in the Masjid (Mosque) praying and
reading the Quran. Seeing as
how a lot of people spend most of of their days doing all of the above, it makes life quite
difficult knowing you can't live life to it's fullist until the sun slowly sets every night on
a Ramadan day. Muslims feast
on anything from turkey to roast beef, with mashed potatoes, corn, kabab, fatoosh (arabic
salad) and pita bread. It isn't necessary, but people ask god to forgive the sins they have
comitted year round by praying. Children are
given gifts and or money, and friends and family gather and pray for thanks for all of
their blessings in their lives. e was a joke), people who fast just can't help
thinking how they're going to get through their day without eating that Big Mac they
normally have for lunch.
However, when the sun finally sets, people are ecstatic knowing that not only are
they about to eat their first meal of the day, it's a pretty decent meal at that. Fortunately, it lasts for three days and people eat even more food at dinner
time, in addition to being allowed to eat or drink any time they want. Also, on the twenty seventh day of the month, the Night
of Power (Laylat al Qadr) is celebrated. The meal turns out to be so good, that muslims eat so much and
forget their problems and worries and remenisce about the Kodak moments that they
have shared as a family. Sunset is called Iftar in arabic and is the time to break a muslims
fast and to pray to Allah.
Finally, after thirty harsh days, a holiday called Eid al Fitr or Id al Fitr finally
occurs. For a person who is fasting
from sunrise to sunset, it is forbidden to eat or any kind of food or to drink any kind of
liquids, to have any kind of sexual pleasures, to smoke, to curse and to gossip.
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