Ramadan 2018

Vita · 15 May 2018 at 20:56

With the crescent moon not being sighted. The start of Ramadan this year will fall on Thursday 17th May 2018 and last for 29/30days depending on the moon sighting for Eid ul Fitr.

This year like last will prove to be difficult. This time the fasts will become longer each day.

All the best to those who are going to be fasting. It will be a brilliant time to find inner peace and learn more about yourself.

Zenduri · 15 May 2018 at 21:04

Not my belief but Ramadan Mubarak!

Those long days are going to be testing

robfosters · 15 May 2018 at 21:08

What do Muslim footballers Like Mesut Ozil do? There's no way they can fast in the month building up to the world cup.

Dis86 · 15 May 2018 at 21:10

robfosters said:
What do Muslim footballers Like Mesut Ozil do? There's no way they can fast in the month building up to the world cup.

Some do some dont. Personal choice and I believe some exceptions are accepted.

explicit4u · 15 May 2018 at 21:10

Ramadan Mubarak!

Still amazes me that people are able to do this, I get super cranky if i go more than 3 hours without food!

robfosters · 15 May 2018 at 21:12

Dis86 said:
Some do some dont. Personal choice and I believe some exceptions are accepted.

Being a Christian country, I could imagine Germany much preferring they dont.

Pawnless Endgame · 15 May 2018 at 21:14

HybridX said:
Not my belief but Ramadan Mubarak!

Those long days are going to be testing

Likewise.

On the plus side, you have what's known as seasonal lag. The longest day is indeed mid-Jun, but the hotter days tend to hit in Jul/Aug. The same goes with the opposite seasons in the the shortest day is mid-Dec then the colder days hit in Jan/Feb.

dowie · 15 May 2018 at 21:17

Ramadan Mubarak and good luck with it.

robfosters said:
What do Muslim footballers Like Mesut Ozil do? There's no way they can fast in the month building up to the world cup.

plenty of allowances are available if people want to delay/defer it etc.. (illness for example is another exception)

also re: people living really far north (Scandinavia etc..) with 24/7 daylight - when Islam was invented they didn't realise that would be an issue so a workaround for them is to use Mecca time

Hotwired · 15 May 2018 at 21:19

robfosters said:
What do Muslim footballers Like Mesut Ozil do? There's no way they can fast in the month building up to the world cup.

http://www.islamweb.net/eramadan/articles/179261/valid-excuses-for-not-fasting

Doesn't appear to be any exception given for work performance.

I guess if you value work over religion you straight up ignore it or defer it.

Yas786 · 15 May 2018 at 21:19

Ramadan Mubarak my fellow ocuk muslims. Gonna be a tough one this year just like last year :/.

Megahurtz400 · 15 May 2018 at 21:25

robfosters said:
What do Muslim footballers Like Mesut Ozil do? There's no way they can fast in the month building up to the world cup.

I'm sure I read somewhere that the Egyptian football team who are in the World Cup have been given special permission to defer?

Question for a Muslim forum member, is there a "head" of Islam like the Pope is for Christianity?

robfosters · 15 May 2018 at 21:29

Megahurtz400 said:
I'm sure I read somewhere that the Egyptian football team who are in the World Cup have been given special permission to defer?

Question for a Muslim forum member, is there a "head" of Islam like the Pope is for Christianity?

Surely too many branches of Islam for there to be a ‘head’ so to speak.

dowie · 15 May 2018 at 21:30

Megahurtz400 said:
Question for a Muslim forum member, is there a "head" of Islam like the Pope is for Christianity?

The Pope isn't the head of Christianity, there are various denominations of Christianity... and no there isn't a "Pope" of Islam in the sense of some infallible leader with a direct connection to god (I'm not a muslim but can answer that one)... there are, like Christianity, different branches of Islam too

robfosters · 15 May 2018 at 21:33

Pope is the head of Catholicism. How the hell does anyone not know that?

Vita · 15 May 2018 at 21:35

No, there are various scholars in Islam. It just depends on what school of thought people follow as every sect is somewhat different in minute things.

Diddums · 15 May 2018 at 21:39

Good luck guys. I can't go a few hours without food, mad respect to you <3

omnomnom · 15 May 2018 at 21:56

robfosters said:
Pope is the head of Catholicism. How the hell does anyone not know that?

LOL

Ramadan Mubarak my muslim friends

carlosvr6 · 15 May 2018 at 22:07

Ramadan Mubarak!

Megahurtz400 · 15 May 2018 at 22:31

robfosters said:
Pope is the head of Catholicism. How the hell does anyone not know that?

I'm not a religious person at all, all I know is that he's got a mad hat and the latest pope seems to be a cool dude

Angilion · 16 May 2018 at 01:09

Megahurtz400 said:
I'm not a religious person at all, all I know is that he's got a mad hat and the latest pope seems to be a cool dude

He's got an awesome library too. Almost 100Km of shelves. No typo - the place is a massive underground vault system. Depending on who you believe, it contains supersecret world-changing stuff or a lot of paperwork from centuries of a rather large and rather bureaucratic organisation, interesting to scholars but only to scholars. I'd like it to be the former, but I think it's far more likely to be the latter.