Thought for Ramadaan
Hi guys. Ramadaan Kareem to all my Muslims bruvs and sis. To my non-Muslims friends, try and fast one day, it will help your body burn the excess fat taht is stored in your body.
Anyway, I just wanna share something I learned from my dad. Tell me what you think.
My father always says:
"When you help someone, consider yourself special because of all the other people who are available and who could provide that help, God Chose you as His pawn. So when He Chose you, He Will most definitely Reward you because He is All Kind.
Never ever think that you have helped on your own accord. God Has Helped you to earn His Blessings. Never reproach people for whatever help you have provided because in fact you could never help without God's will and without God Giving to you. If the other person hurts you later on, don't be hurt. Feel sorry for him/her instead, as he/she will have to account for his/her ungratefulness as God Hates ungratefulness. So my daughter help as much as you think you can. Don't worry about the recipient of your help.You will never become poor by helping. In fact you are becoming rich because you are discovering yourself and learning more and more when you help"
Helping youre fellow brothers and sisters does give you a nice feeling. Your heart is much contented. So what you think guys?
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thank u
great advice from your father! thanks for sharing!
don't let the trolls get you down :-)
I do relate with NIC having lived in so many cultural settings and all religion has good and bad so i tend to absorbed the good parts and integrate in my personal belief.
Basics are all the same and in the case of helping and giving - there is a saying that goes" it is better to give than to receive" and the more you give, more you shall receive"
More so, doing this good deeds of giving and helping is a personal issue-need not be known but to oneself, GOD Knows.
May the Ramadan brings more good and peace to all.
Uh... Fasting for muslims involves not drinking water, fembot.
I fasted as a non muslim for one day, and it was fine. Not hard! even if I don't fast I forget to eat, so it ain't no big deal. Survive on water mostly
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Princess,
I’ve lived in Europe, North America and Far East Asia, among different cultures that I respect and became very interested in learning about them and understanding them.
I have never questioned myself why I was so interested and curious in learning about them (I actually had a great pleasure in this process of discovering and learning new things), until I got to this part of the world.
Here, before I attempted to integrate to an eventual local culture, I get lectured and judged just because my believes don’t have “man made labels”...
So many moralists here, that it is almost freighting to see how blind and closed within them selves, people can be.
Believe me, if I encountered an easy going, peaceful, respectful environment, it would have attracted me as other cultures and religions did previously!
But again, I am not here to change what I have encountered.
Even if I do find it annoying and uncomfortable, to be constantly imposed on other's believes, to observe more external religious features rather than genuine spiritual behaviors, to be unable to have a conversation about other philosophies, etc, etc..., I just have to accept it and leave when I can no longer take it anymore. But one thing, I will not stop doing, is to express my own ideas!
All the best for all and I hope that each one of you may practice what your own conscience dictates without having the need to show to others and to impose on others.
If what you practice is perceived by others to be good, people will respect you for that!
Ramadan Mubarak for all of you!
Funny how what you said refers more to all mankind no matter if they are religious or not! Very few people in this world can think outside the box and stop judging others based on what they feel is right and wrong!
I think you are seeing this for the first time from muslims because the majority just believe what their peers and family believe and fail to make educated choices for themselves regarding the religion. However if you looked closer you may come to realise that most of the people even on this very site show the same exact traits you mentioned: moralists, lecturing and judging ! Perhaps less obviously because you may share some of their same beliefs as well. Very easy to look at others (outsiders whose ideas and methods seem strange) and much more difficult to look at ourselves (those with enviromental similarities which have helped shaped our way of thinking!)
Most people are sheep who follow a herd! Their ideas just depend on the herd they are following.
Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi
It is rather sad to constantly witness people being judgmental of those who don’t demonstrate certain external and visible behaviors considered by some, the “only path for paradise”.
It is rather sad to observe that those who choose not to follow those who think that they are the right and the only philosophical truth, are often labeled as “infidels” and are consider not good human beings.
I do miss being surrounded by those who think by themselves, instead of following blindly set of rules made by and imposed by man kind!
I do miss the free civilized world, where people are individual thinkers, able to practice the good, the positive, and the respect, the sharing without having the constant need to be moralists, lecturing and judging others all the bloody time.
At last. well said: ladba06 and nabila syed at least understood the inner meaning of the spirit to help your fellow human being. My post was about helping each other...not about losing weight...the rest of you are too judgemental and guess where we find most of the obese people ( I feel pity for them, unable to breathe or to even clean themselves due too so much fat dangling from everypart of their body. They need otehrs to do it. They stink for God's sake) From the States and UK. You talking about gym? You talking about gorging food for 12 hours? Guess who is the most gluttony nation...the West...no wonder you see all types of diseases coming from their sides despites so much technological and medical advances. Supernurse should know. He/She is a super of nurse anyway. UK health systems is appalling. Like Nabila said, if you had nothing to do, bettet not say anything. Just shut up and let people wonder if you're dumb rather than to your mouth and remove all the doubts about your stupidity or biased and bigotrous mind. Finally did heero yuy write that book he keeps mentioning in all his posts?
i-moody pretty good advise from your Dad. True about helping people, its always heart warming :)
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what book r u talking abut mr.....
wn u dont have any knowlege then dont discus.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
when u gauys does not know the meaning then dont talk any thing abut islam beter u people understand that.fasting is a religious act n all muslims shud fast for allah n only allah not.
burn excess fat just by fasting for 1 day.......hahahahahahaha!!?? Have you heard of a gym?
some muslims I know go home at lunch and eat after a full 3 or 4 hrs of work.
.i love ramadan, it gives me enough time to sleep..
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.plus i love workin at night....
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"Have you actually seen someone doing that for the next 12 hours? Wow. You must be very patient and passionate about watching people gorging on food for such a long time."
It's a hobby...
"Have you actually seen someone doing that for the next 12 hours? Wow. You must be very patient and passionate about watching people gorging on food for such a long time."
It's a hobby...
...or not just one, that is.
And to Goodlooking, I wonder if that is at all possible: gorge on food for the next 12 hours. Have you actually seen someone doing that for the next 12 hours?
Well many people do it 'round here.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
No, this is not what Ramadaan is all about. Not about losing weight... Do you think these obese and non obese people want to lose weight, so they fast only in Ramadaan. I was not telling my non muslim QLers to fast. I was sharing with them the non religious aspect of any fasting: i.e. the burning of excess fat that are stored in a different form in the liver.
And to Goodlooking, I wonder if that is at all possible: gorge on food for the next 12 hours. Have you actually seen someone doing that for the next 12 hours? Wow. You must be very patient and passionate about watching people gorging on food for such a long time.
Weird practice of religion...
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
AAAhhhh!! So thats what Ramadan is all about is it?? Losing weight!! Silly moi, I thought it was a religious thing!!!
"To my non-Muslims friends, try and fast one day, it will help your body burn the excess fat taht is stored in your body"
What and then gorge on food for the next 12 hours, errr no thank you.
ok, tell that to the Qatari guy that pulled a gun on another the other day....yeah real good deed...