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The Last Days of Ramadan
I can't quite believe it when Ramadan arrives, and I can't quite believe when it's gone. It's a bit like summer that way, I guess. Long, long days and then one morning you wake up and there's a familiar crispness in the air and you think, "Where did the time go?"
I alternate between willing the hours forward during Ramadan and trying to live into each moment. There is something about having an empty stomach in mid-afternoon that makes me feel more alive. God knows, for most of the rest of the year, I spend half my day feeling gluttonously full, promising myself I'll never overeat again, and then breaking that promise an hour later.
There is a New Years quality to Ramadan. It's how many Muslims mark time, and it's when we make resolutions. So here's mine: to remember this feeling, of an empty stomach, a more deliberate pace, a connection to the cosmic past, and a sense of responsibility for our collective future.
By
Eboo Patel
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September 18, 2009; 9:13 AM ET
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Posted by: DeucePrez | September 21, 2009 5:33 AM
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Eboo,
Write something worth reading, something with some intellectual content.
Or give up this space to someone who will encourage intelligent and interesting about the problems associated with religion and how to solve them.
The same old defense o' Islam and education about the "real" Islam is vacuous at best.
John Meacham, Sally Quinn, and Lisa Miller need to pay attention to this potentially interesting blog. Otherwise it will go the way of PostGlobal. Hasn't the volume of hits gone down with the recent changes and less accessibility of On Faith? How about someone who writes about science, Buddhism, Hinduism, real interfaith issues.
Posted by: clearthinking1 | September 21, 2009 1:01 AM
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When I travel to muslim countries I found most of the people fasts in ramadan.
This is something the wait for the whole year - amazing.
Posted by: hitman2 | September 19, 2009 3:41 AM
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Only and only 10 percent or,at most,20 percent of muslims in all over the world observe ramadan/fasting.
Posted by: halozcel1 | September 18, 2009 3:56 PM
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@ Halozecel:
You stated, "Only and only 10 percent or,at most,20 percent of muslims in all over the world observe ramadan/fasting".
REALLY?? From what resource did you derive those minuscule percentages?