Our Muslim friends have been enduring the summer heat without breaking their fast. They still have more than half a month to go and they are being courageous. If you are walking the streets at 7 pm in the evening you will feel the energy of the holy month Ramzan. People are rushing home on scooters and the food stalls get ready with choices for hot snacks. The masjids have an aura about the place by the evening. I have never been inside a masjid but seen in pictures a line of fruit plates placed on the carpet as devotees can wash their hands/ feet and gather to open their day-long fast.
I have heard that the opening prayer is a brief offering; I have heard that some open their fasts with a pinch of salt, some with water and some with khajoor. Fruit/ fruit juices are essential for the iftaar because after no food all day it is important to consume food that is light on the stomach. Some crave for a cup of tea and hardly eat anything, some cannot stop eating all night and some have small snack backed by an early dinner.
No matter what time they sleep the devotees wake up at 4 am for the morning namaaz after which they are allowed a cup of tea and whatever they wish to eat though it is difficult to consume food so early. Most of them just prefer to relish a cup of tea with probably a toast or two. Not an easy exercise at all and to think they do it for 30 days, year after year. Respect…
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