Someone asked me the other day how I was preparing for the month of heartburn and overeating.
Lady: "Have you guys prepared for Ramadan yet?"
Me: "Of course, we bought everything edible at Costco last night, you?"
Lady: "I am doing all the cooking now so I have time to do more cooking during Ramadan."
Me: "Genius. Ramadan is all about the food! Too bad there is a famine in East Africa."
Lady: "I can relate, the Arab store was out of pickles. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?"
Me: "The horror."
Lady: "I am buying new clothes for Ramadan, you know, for all the weight gain."
Me: "Oh, I just unbutton my pants. No need to splurge, after all, it's the month of Taqwa."
Lady: "Well, it's just my husband and I, do you think $5000 is a good food budget, we still need to buy dates."
Me: "hmm. I'd invest in Tums, too."
Lady: "We can't eat leftovers during Ramadan."
Me: "Heck, no! Ew"
Lady: "Can't wait to read the Quran cover-to-cover--TWICE--during Ramadan. I am in competition with my friend. I like reading without understanding, makes me feel smarter."
Me: "Don't we all."
Lady: "Well, I gotta go, talk to you soon."
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Let's bring back Ramadan, folks.
July 23, 2011
Ramadan Prep, 2011 Style
Tags Bring Back Ramadan, Ramadan 2011, Satire
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That is kinda brilliant. This happens to everyone with their religious holidays and special months. People forget what its all about.
LK's right. A lot of (most?) people forget the true meaning of holidays, but thankfully not everyone does.
I saw this post the other day and thought it was great. It's from a Jordanian guy living in Missouri currently. I really enjoyed his thoughts on Ramadan.
http://jaraad.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/peace-food-and-fasting/
I'm with LK and Susanne... when I did celebrate Ramadan and Eid it was very sad, because I was all by myself, so I never got to experience the "big" celebrations - instead i focused on prayer and reading the Qur'an.
Asalaamu Alaikum
Why are raised muslims like this? rofl. In Ramadan we eat normally. I never can understand why everyone is talking about food when its the month of fasting. Or like its a celebration. I can barely read arabic so I guess once again I will be reading the quran in english and understanding it.
haha - i would seriously hope that this was not an actual conversation... TOO worrying otherwise!
I'm with Farah. Like, seriously, this was a true conversation?? :S:S
Unbelievable.
Lady: "I am doing all the cooking now so I have time to do more cooking during Ramadan."
L.O.L!!
And just so you know, there'll be a "Ramadan Food Festival" happening in my neck of the woods...seriously.
Sad, but true and let's not forget to invite all the people we've been too busy to talk to the rest of the year over for dinner so we can brag and boast bout this, that and the other, cause you know Ramadan is all about visiting other Muslims. ack.
I think there are better ways to get this message across than by posting a conversation by a person that seems to have lost the spirit. After reading such a conversation, it becomes easy to feel judgmental, even superior--I know this was not your intent, but if that's what we end up feeling after reading this dialogue, then we have missed the spirit of Ramandan. If we see a fellow Muslim behave in a way that we don't find to be consistent with Islam, and if we feel that we can offer guidance, its best to approach them privately with kind thoughts and sound reasoning. Making fun of this person, rolling our eyes, and talking about them to others, is not helpful.
It was a joke. As in, I made up the whole think. Fiction :)
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