{"id":94458,"date":"2017-06-26T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=94458"},"modified":"2017-06-26T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T04:45:23","slug":"its-ramzan-the-fasting-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/its-ramzan-the-fasting-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Its Ramzan -the fasting ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ramzan, which marks the month long period of fasting for millions of Muslims around the world, began on Friday. And if you\u2019re a person who\u2019s always wondered why so many people in the world would subject themselves to a month-long exercise of voluntary thirst and hunger, fret not. You\u2019re not the only one who had these questions, but is too afraid to ask.<\/p>\n

\u201cRamzan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, and lasts either 29 or 30 days, depending on when the new crescent moon is visible. The Arabic term Ramzan connotes intense heat. It seems that in pre-Islamic Arabia, Ramzan was the name of a scorching hot summer month. In the Islamic calendar, however, the timing of Ramzan varies from year to year. This year Ramzan will begin around May 27; next year it will begin around May .<\/p>\n

Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. Fasting during the month of Islam, or \u2018Sawm\u2019, which is the fourth pillar before \u2018Hajj\u2019 or the holy pilgrimage to Mecca.<\/p>\n

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These five pillars provide the framework for a Muslim\u2019s life and \u201cand weaves their everyday activities and their beliefs into a single cloth of religious devotion\u201d.<\/p>\n

An average day of fasting begins early, when they have a large meal called \u2018suhoor\u2019 before dawn. They do not eat or drink (not even water) throughout the day and break the fast with a meal called \u2018iftar\u2019 after sundown.<\/p>\n

Among the other reasons Muslims fast during Ramzan is to develop compassion for the poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a blessing to be one of those people who can afford the needs and wants. So are all of you reading this now. Doesn’t matter if you believe in God or not, Ramzan teach,\u201d reads one person\u2019s response. \u201cBeing hungry or thirsty for a large portion of the day makes you realize how blessed you are. You feel grateful for the life that the Almighty bestowed upon you,\u201d writes another.<\/p>\n

Other reasons for fasting include learning patience, breaking bad habits, not taking their privilege for granted and fasting as a means to get closer to god.<\/p>\n

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Muslims who are \u201cphysically limited\u201d – like the elderly, those who are ill, young children, or pregnant or nursing women – are exempt from the fasting obligation during Ramzan. The same goes if one is traveling at the time. Others who are wealthy and are not able to fast are supposed to provide meals for the poor as an alternative.<\/p>\n

According to multiple sources, women are exempt from fasting on the days they are menstruating. They are also not allowed to touch the Quran or recite the prayers on those days.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Antonia Blumberg for Huffpost, Qamar, a Muslim woman, said that she didn\u2019t know of a line in the Quran which said that menstruating women cannot pray or fast. And while many women do not mind the break from fasting when they are bleeding, a Muslim researcher told Huffpost, women say that it does have a stigma.<\/p>\n

When we\u2019re in a group of friends and a plate of chips or glass of iced tea is being passed around, it\u2019s easy to absent-mindedly take a piece or sip. But what if that person is a Muslim fasting during Ramzan? Does that invalidate their fast altogether?<\/p>\n

According to Islam Today, if the breaking of the fast is a genuine mistake, it is pardoned. \u201cAllah says: \u201cThere is no blame on you for what you do by mistake, but only for what your hearts have deliberately resolved upon.\u201d [S\u00fbrah al-Ahz\u00e2b: 5]\u201d reads a quotation on the forum.<\/p>\n

Further, it quotes the Prophet as saying that if a person forgets they are fasting and eats or drinks, \u201cit is merely that Allah has given him food and drink.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fasting all day sounds like a clear recipe to reduce weight, only it\u2019s not. Two meals placed too far apart with a day of no dietary intake in between is actually a recipe which can mess with your metabolism. Add to this the fact that these two meals tend to be quite sizeable and may be fried or sugary. So, many people who practice fasting during Ramzan may end up putting on weight.<\/p>\n

However, this is not to say that Ramzan fasting cannot be done in a healthy way. Avoiding overeating, chewing properly, cooking healthy, eating low fat dairy projects, and having plenty of non-sugary liquids during the non-fasting hours is a good way to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end of Ramzan marks the beginning of one of two major Islamic holidays Eid ul-Fitr, the \u201cfestival of the breaking of the fast.\u201d On this day, many Muslims attend a religious service, visit relatives and friends, and exchange gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ramzan, which marks the month long period of fasting for millions of Muslims around the world, began on Friday. And if you\u2019re a person who\u2019s always wondered why so many people in the world would subject themselves to a month-long exercise of voluntary thirst and hunger, fret not. You\u2019re not the only one who had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29597,2],"tags":[47623,47624,47477,773,47625,33189],"class_list":["post-94458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-fasting-ends","tag-islamic-lunar-calendar","tag-mecca","tag-muslims","tag-pilgrimage","tag-ramzan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ramzan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}