Ramadan Diary 2008

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Someone was going to have to make this thread, so I figured it may as well be me.

I've started it a bit earlier so people can talk about how people are preparing for Ramadan in their area..

So feel free to share your thoughts on Ramadan 2008.:)
 
August 30, 2008

Ramadan is either tomorrow or the day after, they haven't seen the hilal yet. Tonight everyone is going to be up waiting to hear the news. People are running around town stocking up on food, you'd think there was a nuclear war coming. Shop keepers here are now selling food for more than it's original price, with demand being so high, and them being in control of the supply. Food is a main part of ramadan here, so it's not surprising that that's the one thing people are worried most about, haha. If the hilal is sighted today, there will be taraweeh prayers. There's a mosque at the end of my street, about a 3 minute walk away. Everyone will be there, men, women, children. It's this great cheery feeling you experience in ramadan, especially in it's beginning, and in the end towards eid. Suhoor is also great, I'm thinking of having a shawrma for suhoor tonight, if ramadan is indeed tomorrow. If it isn't, I'll have a shawrma anyway. Because it's just that awesome.
 
August 30, 2008

Holland,
I hear People Talking Not to go "Out" in Ramadan and Thats A very Good Thing
People Talking About Diffuculty about The Time They Will break the Fast, 8:31pm!,
And Food .... Yeah Food You already know What I mean lol
Me Myself am Very Excitet , I already Started To Read AND recite The Qu'ran So that I will Finish It in the Ramadan InshAllah ,
I wait and see what will happen next, I am Very excitet :statisfie
 
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August 30th 2008

Salaam

Ramadhan due to start Monday maybe inshAllah :) typically of my area they are going to do tuesday or even wednesday :( .... that's given me an idea for a post on my site *runs off to get writing book*

:) wsalaam
 
August 31st, 2008

Today is the 51st Independence Day of my country Malaysia. But the main focus for tomorrow for most Muslims in Malaysia is to do some shopping for Ramadan.

Usually MAlaysians would be buying lots of dates, salted eggs and fish...

They are setting up many canopies for Ramadan Bazaar all over Malaysia.

We will be observing the hilal today and expected to observe Ramadan on the 1st September 2008.
 
August 31 2008 (well it's after midnight so technically september 1st)

Attended the first taraweeh prayer of 2008. It was very different than the kind I was used to. I'm used to the imam reading 2 and a half pages in a rak'a, going really slowly, and doing only 8 raka's.
Today we did 20 super fast rak'as. I could barely say "Subhan rabi ala'la" 3 times before he would hop back up! And he would only read a verse or two each rak'a, so it went really fast. Usually taraweeh takes an hour and a half, it took about 45 minutes today.
Ah well. I really loved the spirit everyone had though. I love seeing people walking towards the mosque, and you get a lot of that here. Everyone sees people they know at the mosque and the greet each other, hug, kiss. Lovely atmosphere.
Tomorrow is the first day of fasting inshallah, had a little bit to eat, and now I'm staying up until suhoor time. Eat and pray then go to bed inshallah. The beginning of Ramadan! :)
 
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Aug 30,2008

Ramadan Kariim..Ramadan Mubarak..

Ramadan has already started for some plp around the country...which SubhanALLAH stills amazes me..We leave on the same planet but yet we really dont,SubhanALLAH

Well ive never been more excited about Ramadan untill this year

everyone is obviously runing around to get food...especially since tomorow i labour day here in the states and stores arent really open

i cant wait till i go to Tarweeh Prayer..i think ima go to this new Masjid for Tarweeh..i guess ill go back and forth InshALLAH

:w:
 
Auguest 31, 2008

mom went shopping for food to cook for tommorow's iftaar
i can't wait to go to the Taraweeh tonight :D
we cleaned up and the whole family is ready for ramadan
sad thing is: its still only 2:59 here still a long wait *well it feels like its long*
 
august 31 (well its 00am So I mean 1 september,)

Holland,

Just Came back from Taraweeh And I Was a Little disappointed cause I expected That The Masjid Would Be Full any way It was Nice ,There was an Atmosphere , You know That Ramadan Atmosphere :D
 
Muslimah421 said:
Auguest 31, 2008

mom went shopping for food to cook for tommorow's iftaar
i can't wait to go to the Taraweeh tonight :D
we cleaned up and the whole family is ready for ramadan
sad thing is: its still only 2:59 here still a long wait *well it feels like its long*
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I don't meant to interrupt this thread, but I'm kind of new to Taraveeh prayers. So a person can pray Taraveeh the night Ramadan starts?

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well if ramadan is on monday taraweeh starts on sunday night after the isha prayer
 
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I don't meant to interrupt this thread, but I'm kind of new to Taraveeh prayers. So a person can pray Taraveeh the night Ramadan starts?
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Yes thats right, Islamically the night comes before the day, so the month starts as soon as the moon is sighted, around sunset so the first Taraweeh is before the first Fast.



August 31st 2008.

Alhamdulillah the first Taraweeh finished a while ago, just came back from the Masjid. It's great that the majority of people started Ramadhaan together even here, even with our own small town we sometimes have two or even three different days that people that start their fasts, but i think this year the majority of people all started together Alhamdulilah.

I'm going to go bed soon, so i can wake up in 3/ 3 1/2 hours for Suhoor.

May Allah SWT accept our Qiyaam..Aameen

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yes i never new that..ive been Muslim my whole life lbut yet ive been so ignorant,SubhanALLAH..
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we learn new things everyday :)

Augest 31 continued

we're going to be breaking our fast tommorow at 7:49
 
Muslimah421 said:
well if ramadan is on monday taraweeh starts on sunday night after the isha prayer
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Abdul Baari said:
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Yes thats right, Islamically the night comes before the day, so the month starts as soon as the moon is sighted, around sunset so the first Taraweeh is before the first Fast.



August 31st 2008.

Alhamdulillah the first Taraweeh finished a while ago, just came back from the Masjid. It's great that the majority of people started Ramadhaan together even here, even with our own small town we sometimes have two or even three different days that people that start their fasts, but i think this year the majority of people all started together Alhamdulilah.

I'm going to go bed soon, so i can wake up in 3/ 3 1/2 hours for Suhoor.

May Allah SWT accept our Qiyaam..Aameen

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JazakAllah khair
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true, we learn things everyday.
 
31st August 2008

Went shopping with the whole family for the preparations of Ramadan. We bought lots of of things for suhoor and iftaar.

There are too many people in the market...I wish I could take some pics of it but the problem is that i was carrying many items in BOTH hands!!

The dates seller was the most popular person this morning!!

After all that, all of us had our last breakfast before Ramadan at an Indian Muslim restaurant called "Haji Mustafa Nasi Kandar" at a place called Kota Kenari. I had two pieces of chapati with vegetarian dhall curry. And washed it up with Neslo (Coffee+chocolate)... it was a very nice breakfast. The owner told us that the restaurant would be closed for the whole month of Ramadan. God bless this restaurant!

Then we went to a frozen food store and bought beefburger patties, sausages, cheese and buns for suhoor. We consumed these for about 1/2 of our suhoor during the month of Ramadan. Easy to cook and very tasty!

I took shower at 7.00 PM and performed maghrib prayer at home. Then I watch the TV for the official proclamation of Ramadan by the spokeperson of the Malaysian Council of the Kings.

The proclamation of Ramadan was aired on 8.15 PM, and I was so happy...It's Ramadan now....:D

Then the whole family went to our makeshift musolla in our neighbourhood by 8.30 PM... it's crowded as usual...

Our Taraweeh prayer was lead by a 16-year old dude, who is the son of one of our neighbour who is still studying in a Tahfeez school. God bless him. He has a very good voice too..

There are some Bangladeshi and Indonesian worshippers too (last year there was none)... I'm glad that they are willingly to join the locals in taraweeh prayers.

After coming back from Taraweeh prayers which finished at 10.40 PM, we had some Temaki (Japanese seaweed roll with rice, cucumber, crabmeat and lots of mayonaise) bought at Carrefour earlier.

Me and my mum woke up for suhoor preparations at 4.00 AM. I made hot Milo (Chocolate drink) in a very big mug for each one of us and my mum cooked Chinese-style Fried Rice. We had our suhoor at 4.30 PM. It was tasty.
 
1 september,Holland


First Day Of the Ramadan , I went to school and Yeah.... FITNAH all over the place
Its Was so Difficult , I was so happy when I came Home , I have Read A Couple of pages of the Quran , Arabic AND translation,
My mother is making Food now mmm , I cant wait To eat :D
Less than 2 hours Left But I have to say It was easier Than I tought :)
 
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I am fasting, its 6:03, i'll break my fast at 8:07!
I've been fasting since 4:30, I had to go to school today, first day back, very boring, but unleast it passes time! 2 hours left!!
:w:
 

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