Ramadan, Ramazan - Eid
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What is Ramadan, or Ramazan?
Ramadan is the ninth month of Islamic calendar and also the fasting month which ends with the sugar feast. Between dawn and sunset they should not eat, drink, smoking and sex. In the evenings and at night they eat it.
What makes Ramadan special in all months that fasting in this month of the pillars of Islam. In many Islamic countries, but also in the Netherlands, it is normal for this time of family and friendship ties to attract extra. The invite each other, visit and hears this break the fast together.
Every year Ramadan comes 10 days forward on the calendar. This is different and every year there are difficult years as years in the summer. These are long days.
The fast
During Ramadan Muslims eat and drink anything between dawn and sunset. Before dawn, they use a meal 'Sahoor' is mentioned and a meal after sunset that "Iftar" is mentioned. For Sahoor are special, very healthy prepared meals. Iftar dinner for the people of North Africa a thick soup "harira" is mentioned. The fast is broken with dates in Arabic and Arabic coffee, tea and olives in Turkey, in India with sweet milk and fruit drinks.
The aim of the Islamic fasting is not to lose weight or cure a disease (through diet). Fasting in Ramadaan because no cause malnutrition, since no reduction in calories is required for breakfast or for ontvasten. Fasting for 13-14 hours per day, 29 or 30 days long, is an ideal way to unhealthy habits such as excessive smoking, eating and drinking coffee to keep.
Only in this era of diet is also clear that non-Muslims fasting is something beneficial. Fasting purifies the intestines, the stomach recovers, rid the body of harmful substances remaining excess moisture and helps get rid of that stored. It gives peace to the heart, promote blood circulation and helps to put any nature to come. People familiar with the fast learning are self contained. The annual fasting a Muslim teaching qualities as discipline, endurance, self-respect and respect of others and the creator. Every day there is a solid victory over passions and desires. People who fast feel good and have a sense of inner calm and peace. Even if you do not lose even one ounce, one feels better after fasting during Ramadan.
Ill people and fast
If the possibility of disease progression by fasting or by not taking the medication was - is - forbidden for a Muslim to fast. He determines himself whether he fixed. All the days that he can not fast, he gets.
Eating by Accident
Only when you consciously eating, drinking (or smoking) between dawn and sunset, the fasting become invalid. If this happens because they had forgotten that we fasted, you just continue fasting.
Eid, Id-al-Fitr
On the 1st day of the tenth month, celebrated the Sugar Festival, Id-al-Fitr (or Eid), the feast of breaking the fast. The end of Ramadan. The exact start depends on the appearance of the crescent of the new Mon The date given here is the date of the full day. The Sugar Festival starts on the day before sunset.
Eid celebration
On the morning of the first day of the tenth month, Sjawwal, Muslims are asked to: they bathe, clean pull, any new clothes, and make sure they smell nice. So festive they testify that they have fasted one months. After sunrise is something eaten, such as dates or other sweets, indicating that fasting really is over. The poor people participate in this use. Mostly they get food and sometimes clothing of the rich, for whom an obligation to care for the poor.
Then the people to the meeting place, a mosque or a hall, and in hot countries a piece of open land for the purpose of the sermon of the imam to listen, that Ramadan is really closed. The women and children while usually present, as the Prophet has recommended. Then people embrace each other, forgive each other and any errors of the past years. They wish each other a blessed feast.
The rest of the day is spent visiting relatives and - if possible - visiting the graves of parents and children. The prophet said that those who visit such a grave, blessed with every step it up. When the family visits is much candy eaten (not for nothing that the party also called Sugar Holiday), and gifts are exchanged. The children share fully in the festivities, though usually only a few days they fasted for the adults to join. Eid can be as long as 3 days.