Ramadan in around 80 days

[JAMALUDEEN]

Wow...cool.

I haven't been abroad for a while now.

So where you going?

I will be coming to london for the 3rd time then will travel around Europe.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Cool, have fun!

[Bengal_Tiger]

The month of Rajab has started

After Rajab, it's the month of Shaa'ban then the month of Ramadan itself.

Rajab is one of the four sacred months.

Some of the virtues of Rajab.


Statement (hadith) attributed to holy prophet Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم

The Prophet (s) said, 'Rajab is the month of God, Shaban is my month and Ramadan is the month of my Community.' God gave us twelve months in the year, eleven of which are ours and one of which belongs to God. What rewards God will give his servants in His month, no one knows, not even the Prophet (s).

Also Laylatur-Ragha'ib, (Night of wishes/desires) takes place in this month, i.e. the first Thursday night of each Rajab, i.e. 23rd April (2 days from now).




I won't be as active on this forum as before and if I do resume being active again it will be after Ramadan, which is late July.

All praise be to Allah.

Peace and prayers be upon the best of creation, Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and his noble family, companions and ummah and all the previous messengers and their ummat.

Ameen, thumma ameen.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Due to a private exchange with Admin Khan I did stick around and post a bit, contrary to my statement above.

However I'm still no way as active as before.

There are now roughly 42 days left till Ramadan.

Here in the UK the days will be long summer days including I think the longest day of the year.

I hope all those here in the UK have a good Ramadan despite the long summer days and heat!
[MENTION=1753]Manzareh[/MENTION] [MENTION=65]Pakhtunzai[/MENTION]

[Bengal_Tiger]

Roughly 30 or so days left until Ramadan now.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Around 24 days....left now.

[MENTION=223]JAMALUDEEN[/MENTION] packing his bags to fly off to Europe on a mysterious journey there...




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[Bengal_Tiger]

21 days left approx.

[Bengal_Tiger]

14 days left now....2 more weeks until Ramadan.

The month of rahmah and barakah.

The month of mercy and blessings.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Today is Thursday.

Ramadan may start next Wednesday or Thursday.

Have a good Ramadan everyone.

Signing off

- Bengal_Tiger

[Bengal_Tiger]

From Bangladeshi news site, www.dailystar.net

One Norwegian Muslim community's clever solution to an unusual geographic problem




The sun shines low in the sky just after midnight over a frozen coastline near the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen on April 26, 2007.

Star Online Report

This week, with the start of Ramadan, Muslims from Indonesia to Michigan began fasting from sunrise to sunset in observance of one of the religions' primary holidays.

But what happens in places where the sun never sets because the country is too far north? For many, this particular dilemma is a relatively new one, only apparent over the last two years.

Since the month of Ramadan is pegged to the lunar calendar, it rotates on a yearly basis. The last time the holiday fell this deep into the summer months was nearly three decades ago in the mid 1980s, a time when few Muslim communities could be found above the Arctic Circle.

But with Muslims from Somalia, Iraq, and Pakistan -- to name a few places -- increasingly immigrating to countries like Sweden, Norway, and Finland, the ethical dilemma posed for them by the endless summer days has become very real.

For an answer to this question, I caught up with Muslim residents of Tromsø, a city located in the heart of Norway's northernmost region -- approximately 350 km (215 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.

Between late May and the end of July, the island city, which is surrounded by dramatic snow-covered mountains and fjords, experiences the phenomenon of "midnight sun."

This year, for the first time in the growing Muslim community's history, the sun will not cease shining for the majority of the Ramadan month.

In 1986, the last time Ramadan and the midnight sun overlapped so closely, the city of Tromsø barely had a Muslim population to speak of.

The establishment of a refugee center that same year encouraged the first Muslims to begin arriving, primarily from Iran.

Today, Tromsø's Muslim population numbers roughly 1,000 and consists largely of refugees from Somalia, but it also includes immigrants from elsewhere around the globe and a handful of local converts.

As Hassan Ahmed, a Muslim resident who came to the city from Somalia and works at the Islamic Center of Northern Norway told me, "the sun doesn't set. For 24 hours it's in the middle of the sky."

Faced with the impossibility of adhering to the sunrise/sunset rule, Tromsø's Muslims must find alternative ways of determining when to fast. "We have a fatwa," or clerical decree, Ahmed said. "We can correspond the fast to the closest Islamic country, or we can fast with Mecca."

Sandra Maryam Moe, a Norwegian convert to Islam and manager of Tromsø's community center and mosque, Alnor, echoed Ahmed's statement: "since we have midnight sun during Ramadan this year, we've chosen to use the timetable for Mecca." This means that if the sun rises in Mecca at 5:00 am, residents of Tromsø will begin the fast at 5 a.m. (Norwegian time).

In addition to being a good symbolic choice, adhering to Mecca's timetable, according to Moe, also provides a practical benefit: "they have very stable times for sunrise and sunset so that makes the prayers and the fasting quite balanced."

So tonight at 7:07 -- the time of the would-be-sunset -- Muslims in Tromsø will gather at Alnor's mosque, one of the northernmost in the world, and with the afternoon sun still shining through the windows, break the fast. Typically, this involves a combination of cuisines -- from traditional dates to the rich, thick bread Norway is famous for. A nightly ritual during Ramadan, Moe says the gathering is very popular. "It's full every night with people coming to join and break fast together and pray together. It's a very social time throughout Ramadan."

But though this may be the sunniest Ramadan many of Tromsø's Muslim's have experienced, it won't in actuality be the first time they've had to get creative with scheduling. In the winter, they have the opposite problem.

Moe says they prefer to just stick to the Saudi schedule year round. "In wintertime we have polar nights, so it's the same problem here. There's no sunrise."

http://www.thedailystar.net/world/how-fast-ramadan-the-arctic-where-the-sun-doesnt-set-99661

[Bengal_Tiger]

[Bengal_Tiger]

An Iftar in Afghanistan.

[Bengal_Tiger]

10th of Ramadan, the day that the mother of the believers Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her) and the wife of the most noble of creation, Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم passed away.

May Allah give her the highest state in jannah and shower her family with mercy and blessings.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Started fasting one of the 6 days of Shawwal (month after Ramadan).

It is said that if one fasts the 6 days of Shawwal in addition to the compulsory fasting days of Ramadan one has fasted the whole year.

[Bengal_Tiger]

I have fasted 3 days of Shawwal so far and am fasting today. Today is the 4th day.

May Allah ta'ala make myself and others be able to complete our fasting of 6 days of Shawwal and may Allah shower peace and prayers upon our noble prophet and his family and companions and his ummah and help all oppressed people through out the world.

Ameen, thumma ameen.





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