The muslims across the world fast on this holy month
posted on 16th of august, 2010
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Shimshali People team is now in Islamabad, Pakistan. This particular phase of Satwa Guna Project ( http://www.photodesign.ro &http://www.photodesign.ro/blog ) is developed in collaboration with Pakistan Youth Outreach Programme ( http://www.pakyouthoutreach.com )
While waiting for filming and access documents in the Hunza/Shimshal, we perform image and video documentation in Islamabad with the beginning of Ramazan's.
A short brief introduction of Ramadan & Independance day of Pakistan can be viewed on Satwa Guna YouTube channel
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar, is considered as one of the holiest months of the year. It was in 610 A.D. when the prophet Muhammad was said to have received revelations from God that later became Islam’s holy book, the Quran (Koran). The Quran (2:185) states that it was in the month of Ramadan that the Quran was revealed. In fact, Ramadan commemorates that part, of the Muslim year, when “the Qur’an was sent down as a guidance for the people” and also for the ” judgment between the right and wrong”. Another verse of the Quran (97:1) states that it was revealed “on the night of determination,” which Muslims generally observe on the night of 26-27 Ramadan.
The holy season begins with the sighting of the crescent moon on the evening following the new moon and lasts for 29 or 30 days depending on the lunar cycle. According to the Quran, Muslims must see the New Moon with the naked eye before they can begin their fast. The practice has arisen that two witnesses should testify to this before a qadi (judge), who, if satisfied, communicates the news to the mufti (the interpreter of Muslim law), who orders the beginning of the fast. It has become usual for Middle Eastern Arab countries to accept, with reservations, the verdict of Cairo. Should the New Moon prove to be invisible, then the month Sha’ban, immediately preceding Ramadan, will be reckoned as 30 days in length, and the fast will begin on the day following the last day of this month. Ramadan, the ninth month, is observed throughout the Muslim world as a month of fasting. The end of the fast follows the same procedure. By fasting, Muslims believe they can learn the discipline and self-restraint that Mohammed preached. Thus fasting is taken as a form of worship and a time of empowerment.
Even though from dawn to sunset, Muslims abstain from food, drink and all sensual pleasures, that doesn’t mean food is entirely out of the picture. Two main meals are taken each day during Ramadan. The souhoorbegins each day before dawn and the aftar breaks the fast after sunset. At the sundown each day the fast is broken with the dates and water or the apricot drink. Mostly this is followed by a traditional soup like lentil and a salad like ‘fattoushi’. However, the main meal can be anything. There are no restrictions, olives, cheeses, meats, everything just goes. Every family has its traditional dishes to enjoy. Also sweets are also an important part of Ramadan food. Usually ladies at home prepare the special Ramadan dishes for the evening meal. Many go out to give the women a break. Visits are exchanged for a community get together and feasts within their own faith. But it is not prudent to indulge in eating too much while after the fast. Because the stomach shrinks during this fast. In fact, the fast loses its meaning with an indulgence.
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Today we recive all the papers from the Ministery. Now we have green line to GO :D :) We will manage somehow the flood problems. Thanks for your concern and caring.
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Photodesign
on August 18, 2010 |
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Be careful.. I hear so much about the flooding. I just can't imagine what the people are going through.
- posted by
Littlemacproductions
on August 17, 2010 |
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Thanks also for your comments. Tomorrow we begin the journey to Gilgit. Will be a hard challenge since the Gilgit region around the area is flooded and destroyed many bridges.
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Photodesign
on August 17, 2010 |
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge regarding Ramadan.
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Littlemacproductions
on August 16, 2010 |
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Thanks for sharing your blog about Ramadan! I have made a blog few days before Ramadan explaining the search result images with the word Ramadan... Check it out if you like! Blessed Ramadan ;)
- posted by
Mani33
on August 16, 2010 |
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Pavalache Stelian
(Photodesign)
Bucuresti, RO
>Who are you photography?
Why such question? Otherwise how? How could I talk to the light? I am trying to plunge into its world and bring it to the surface under the shape of letters. What an impossible mission has been assigned to me. It is as if I would rudely and constantly rummage the mystery of the infinite man. But...do you remember the shooting starts? ...well, knead infinite stars in your palm and then, as genuinely as a child, throw them back into the universe. Men and worlds will emerge. Somewhere out there, a tiny bit of light is my world and the light within it.
Through light, all things have shape and enhance effect. Light reveals itself to me and I am surprised. I do not believe in shapes and colors. . . . I do not even know if they truly exist. I do not believe in the moral of shapes, I do not believe in the moral of lightless words, I do not believe that . . . I do not believe that light is ultimate or absolute . . . I press the shutter towards infinite worlds . . . (even my world), and they all fall mingled through the child's fingers and they settle plainly on the silverish forever. A soulful image. I close the shutter . . . darkness in the hand of the lightless child.
Wondering what all this has got to do with photography?
This is how I feel it.
This is my creed . . . ABOUT LIGHT.
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