Have a discussion with your physician about your susceptibility to a high-risk pregnancy, your previous illnesses, whether you have a history of miscarriages or twin pregnancies, and how this being your first pregnancy or more might affect your fasting.
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At the time when you break your fast on that first sweet date, remember to make a supplication, to ask Allah for what you desire: Paradise, forgiveness, pardon, health, and wealth.
Don’t engage in idle talk, gossip, lying, quarreling, cursing, or any form of speech that is unnecessary and has no benefit, especially if it is hurtful to someone else. Luckily for me, my parents had many Malay-Muslim friends who were believers of liberalism and moderation – that being an introduction to the multitudes and different degrees of practice. I’ve had a smile on my face from day one because of that. The non-Muslims even used to eat pork dishes (sold in the schools canteens) sitting beside their Muslim friends and no one made any fuss.
It’s a time of celebration, reflection and giving for billions of Muslims around the world.
I do not understand how this is respect.
So it is a shock to Muslims when they see such shocking crimes committed in the name of their beloved religion, crimes that defy logic and defy any explanation.
Removing the temptation helps those who truly have to fast for religious reasons.
During the 30 days of fasting, those participating in Ramadan will refrain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset as well as abstain from sexual relationships. Sometimes, they tease me too and pretend to order for me a glass of teh ais and we all have a good laugh. No problems.
Preeti Bhambri, founder of personal finance website MoneyCamel.com, agrees that consumers do prepare large quantities of food for Iftar and to give away to charity.
She is in the final trimester of her second pregnancy and she needs the food and nutrition. The ultimate decision whether to fast or not lies between the mother-to-be and her physician.
Again, we fast to appreciate the blessings around us that others don’t have.
“I just felt the need to really speak out”, Montgomery says. Those are things anyone can easily add their daily life, and contrary to some around me who feared I would be bad-tempered while hungry, I think I’ve done all right so far.
Fasting is an ‘ibadah’ and it is suppose to be challenging (although not torture!).
If a Muslim lives in a country where there is more than 20 hours between dawn and sundown – such as Norway – they may follow the times of another country. Funny, isn’t it? “Usually, people give the impression that modernity is a situation ‘here and now’ and that Muslims have just arrived from the ancient past”, Newlon said. They fast but they can not take it when they catch a glimpse of someone eating or drinking.
It is incidents like these that would make one question the strength of faith that people have in their practice – this has been a recurring theme in the literature of this nation.
They cannot even take it when when non-Muslims use the word ‘Allah’ because they start getting confused and all with their own faith.
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