Shades After 068
So yes, Ramadan- it’s a thing! I lived with someone who observed ramadan for a couple of years, he used to take as many night shifts as possible and sleep during the day. Ramadan moves every year and at the moment it falls during the summer months, which means much longer days and longer fasting.
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I used to work with a lot of Muslims and it was my job to knock food out of the hands of the ones who forgot it was Ramadan :p
Fun job XD.
I perhaps took more pleasure than was considered… tasteful :p
I started work at a predominately Muslim workplace during Ramadan last year. I kept automatically offering people coffee and getting patient explanations of why this wasn’t an option for them.
How do diabetics and others with health issues that require they eat meals regularly handle this observance?
Everyone I’ve known personally says health comes first. Lots of diabetics can fast if they’re careful, but if there’s any reason you can’t, living is the better end result! For some people for work because they had to carry heavy weights over 10-14 miles a day, they had breakfast early and dinner after sundown but they had a pot noodle at lunch so they’d stay safe. I was suitably impressed!
“Individuals are exempt from Ramadan fasting if they are suffering from an illness that could be adversely affected by fasting.” Diabetes is the biggest concern, but even a sick child should not be forced to fast, and people like me who must take medication precisely 12 hours apart or die are obviously allowed to do what it takes to stay alive. According to Muslim friends, it is much more a social issue rather than a religious one when it comes to Ramadan and whether someone with a health condition should fast. Any religious leader would say life comes first in Islam, yet if you’re glucose levels are dropping, but everyone around you is fasting, you feel socially compelled to also fast, and that can be dangerous.
http://islam.ru/en/content/story/ramadan-fasting-and-diabetes-mellitus
My Muslim ex colleague couldn’t fast due to serious intestinal problems. She made up for it by contributing a certain percentage of her salary and a percentage of the gold she had from family and marriage to charity and her ancestral village.
Aw, cuties :3
The last line – that last line scares me.
It scares me, too. :(
That’s such a cute lil smile omg
I had a muslim friend who went to a lot of manga/anime conventions. Even if it was ramadan. She was a total badass, cosplaying for a whole day and not eating until it the evening.
I like the third panel a lot but the one before is a little weird. It’s a strange way to yawn, I think, showing so much tooth in the way Anwar does. When I yawn my lips tend to cover my teeth, but maybe I’m just an odd yawner!
When I yawn, but upper lip almost hits my nose and I’m all gums, but I know I’m a weird yawner.
During last year’s Ramadan, I was at a barbecue with a few of my coursemates, one of whom was observing. We planned to light up the grill an hour or two before sundown and prep food through the evening, so that said coursemate could jump in before too long. (One corner of the grill was reserved as the “halal section”.)
…By the time we got an actual fire going, it was dark outside. Our collective lack of grill skill ended up working in our favour :)
“When does the sun even set again?”
Sounds like me!
When it comes to fasting, you know PRECISELY when sunset and sunrise are.
ramadan way up north where i live, goes by the clock. the leaders discussed it and agreed on good times.
if they didn’t do that, there would be no need to observe ramadan if it fell on december, cause the sun never rises. and they’d starve to death when it fell around midsummer because the sun doesn’t really feel like setting at all.