Your body is a natural alarm clock itself. It learns from your sleeping pattern and best formulate the suitable timing to wake up. These days I’ll automatically wake up around 4am for my morning puasa sahur. Rarely do I need to use the alarm clock
For the non-Muslims, we wake up early as we need to fulfill our sahur requirement, which is a pre-dawn meal. Fasting is just not about refraining from drinking or eating, it’s an overall attempt to purify ones thoughts and actions to gain the pleasure of Allah.
Here’s an overall view of what is fasting about
Fasting = Avoid drinking and eating from dawn to sunset
Sahur = Pre-dawn meal (Eat & Drink before Azan Subuh)
Iftar = Break fast (Eat & Drink once Maghrib)
For the non-Muslims, well if you wondering who should fast, well it’s Muslims who have reached physical maturity. Only ladies during menstruation and women during the blood of childbirth should not fast
Of course we can excuse ourselves from fasting if we’re sick, pregnant, mothers nursing their babies and those who are traveling far distances and the need for fluid and food intake to stay awake
There are simple rules to follow which might deem as an act that will invalidate the fast during the day. Well I’ve a compiled a list below. They are
- Intercourse
- Masturbation
- Eating and drinking
- Anything that is regarded as coming under the same heading as eating and drinking
- Vomiting deliberately
- Menstruation
In fact it is shown by medical studies that fasting is in fact beneficial. When you eat less, you tend to burn more fat and calories, thus maintaining a better body weight and loss, as your energy is said to be balanced.
So you non-Muslims or those with inter-racial relationships can tag along during this fasting months. Give it a try, the gahmen trying to promote social harmony anyway
Some of my non-Muslims friends are very cute with their remarks
Friend: Eh brada you cannot oggle at ladies
Me: I can look, sometimes it’s a natural reaction for all guys, can’t help it lah. Just don’t have kinky thoughts and your fast will not batal
Friend: Eh brada if you see a nude photo on Internet, your fasting game over ah
Me: No it isn’t, as it’s unintentional. You did not attempt to find or seek such photos. It’s all a state of the mind
Friend: Eh brada you cannot blow into things right
Me: Yes you can like playing an instrument, as long the object is not swallowed or gets into your windpipe
Friend: Eh brada you cannot wank for one month seh
Me: Well technically it’s just for the span of half the day, but yeah I can tahan one month
I do hope the above is helpful for the non-Muslims who has Muslims friends. Hope it gets a few misconception out of the way and farnees ideas about us during this Holy month
“…. yeah I can tahan one month”. Good for you, bro! Me? Errr …….
hahahahahahhahaha….. puasa siang hari jer bro!! :-)
haha … pls define errr
hmm.. good info there for me.. :)
got some more .. maybe i continue other day
too much info, then no good
moby, too much info dude. :P
Daily! Keep it fresh dude! ;)
agreed way too much info!
I am trying to learn fasting right now.. mmm.. tak bangun2.. wakaka! maybe i need u to be my alarm clock sha ;)
sure no problem, just don’t ask me to sleep beside you jer … indecent proposal haha :p
but cannot call you, my hp spoil
msn bump you aso cannot, kanasai microsoft spoil my msn
ok la, i go your house wake you up
where u stay
i guess theres more then just fasting… got to pray 5 times a day, go to terawit, no swearing, cant look at girls and imagine something else.. etc etc but ive always been doing the opposite ways..
and i went partying yesterday.. and it was soo fun! there werent any malay gangsters and young malay kids around.. wohoo! what a great time to party.
am i going to hell?
eh don’t tempt me lei … i vowed not to party this month!
yeah that other part maybe i blog in other entry … too much info, the non-muslims think i will try to psycho them lak
not to sound pervertic but the wanking part was hilarious! but of course there’s more to what you have stated in order to protect our fast. good overview though! :)
its better to be upfront rite … and if get any laughs along the way, hehe what fun
hmm…
a couple of info nt req bt entertainin….
vblog soon??
seems u a bit spacey on entries nwadys..
wrkn hard for exams???
not in the mood for vblog .. maybe one day. kinda feel abit down phase la
exams is always on my mind, heh!
but yeah will try to jot down more personal entries
dont feel down k. keep yourself busy. take good care of yourself.
thanks yanni
dun feel down..
is it cus of e fastin mth hence u cnt vblog??
noway take care n hope u gt xcellent grade n do well 4 ure exam
n hapi fastin!!
:)
no la, i just don’t feel like doing one
if i feel like it, i’ll do it ok :)
muz hav feelin
Sha, u can tahan for one month? U sure or not??? Hah
Anyway, a good write up. Misconceptions always happened to us when comes to fasting.
Now, u have answered most of their questions. Well-done, bro.
Well what do you think? If i succumb then, ahak …
why don’t you continue the explanation, i’ve not covered the tarawih part, etc
i’ll link you up if you decide to do so :) … just email me of anything
Alamak, bro. Bab tarawih ni berat la. I dun think I’m qualified. I leave it to the expert (i.e. yourself) to explain to ur readers lah.
Kalau bab Hari Raya I bery cleber (very clever). Sebab in my top list is “MAKAN”. LOL.
That one u can link me up. Hehehe.
selamat buka puasa for today bro!
amin. amin. ya rabbal al amin.
amin
u get all these questions a LOT from friends ere.. abt what we can do and especially WHY we fast etc.. ands its cute to see their interested faces.. and what surprises them the most is the non-consumption of liquids.. they dont really care so much about the ‘tahan..’ issue hahahahahaha!
yeah they’re quite cute with their reactions and response yar
well they sometimes forget they offered you drinks/food & they’ll go like “oh my god, will i go to hell for offering you food” … haha, cute
hahahahaha! yesh i know… funny as it may seem.. its just too cute..
on a semi-unrelated note.. my cousin took her friend with her to go buy halal meat.. and shez obviously non-muslim.. and she was about to pick up a tray of cold meats and she turns to my cousin and says “OH.. am i allowed to touch it” hahahahahhahaa,, she thought her touching it would make it un-halal.. tooo cute!
i love my frens to death too!
so adorable
Cool post!
Just a reminder that fasting isn’t a physical act only. It is more spiritual & is to strengthen one’s character & iman/inner relationship with God & spiritual worship.
So, need to add these to the list too: - no backbiting (gossiping etc) or lying with ill intent
- being more patient & of good character & conduct while fasting (I’ve seen people who fast but then get angry easily or get lazy & are less responsible compared to when they were not fasting. This is the opposite meaning of fasting in the first place because fasting promotes us to be more patient & serious in completing our responsibilities because we are working on upholding good moral conduct).
& of course as a Muslim, doing the 5 daily prayers is the basic obligation of muslims. Without completing the prayers, of course the fast is not accepted. So it’ll be good to focus on carrying this obligation out consistently first :)
Thanks for the useful post!
Ps: forgot one more, no smoking >
Well said
Yeah mind, body and soul