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Patient Boy
10-29-2006, 07:41 AM
Eid ul-Fitr is the Muslim festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan where Muslims are supposed to not only abstain from food and drink during the daylight hours, they're also supposed to restrain themselves from giving in to anger and frustration as well devote more time to prayers and religious studies.

In these parts (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) the celebration is known as Hari Raya Aidilfitri (basically an alternate spelling of Eid ul-Fitr) where Hari Raya means "Day of Celebration" (yeah, Malays aren't the most imaginative people on Earth). We dress up in nice traditional clothes and visit each other's houses. While Ramadan is meant to cleanse our wrongdoings over the previous year, it is tradition to ask for forgiveness from friends and family for however we may have wronged them. The Malays do this by saying "Maaf Zahir Batin" which is asking for forgiveness for transgressions both seen and unseen. Also, in this part of the world adults give packets of money to children during Aidilfitri.

On a personal level, I think the significance of it as a celebration for me has waned over the years, and my family really doesn't do all that much visiting anymore really. We visit my grandmother's and direct relatives (ie, uncles/aunts and first cousins) and that's about it, which is a change from when we used to visit pretty much anybody we were related to which took forever since my father's extended family is huge.

On the other hand, this is the first time my pretty little niece has been able to go for visiting with us, plus she just turned one a few days back. She's a Ramadan baby, just like me. And if I were grateful for anything in this world, little Farah Adibah would be it.

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Just thought it would be nice to provide a view from the other side of the world.
Patient Boy
10-29-2006, 07:44 AM
Oh, and we eat lots of absurdly fattening food. Traditionally here we eat something called ketupat, which is sort of like a rice dumpling compressed in a satchet of coconut leaves before being cooked. It's served with rendang (which is normally either lamb or beef cooked in coconut milk and spices) and a sort of vegetable gravy (which also incorporates coconut milk sometimes).

People also generally serve sweets, cakes, and crackers of many different types to their visitors during this period.
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I think being Malay should be a viable reason of death, given our diets.
howyadoin
10-29-2006, 07:47 AM
On the other hand, this is the first time my pretty little niece has been able to go for visiting with us, plus she just turned one a few days back. She's a Ramadan baby, just like me. And if I were grateful for anything in this world, little Farah Adibah would be it.



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Aw, that kid is beautiful.
Patient Boy
10-29-2006, 07:50 AM
Aw, that kid is beautiful.

Isn't she though? I'm just sad she can already say "Elmo" but she can't say my name yet.
Clint Barton
10-29-2006, 09:15 AM
Great stuff.

I think it's great that your family is "into" family. You are indeed blessed and lucky.....I sense I'm not alone in wishing that certain family relationships in my life were more....shall we say....conducive to gatherings and such....
cactusmaac
10-29-2006, 09:58 AM
I was stuck at a day of tax lectures on Eid. Didn't even get the opportunity to pray because of the travel. Spent the rest of the day with the parents which was nice.
Ullar
10-29-2006, 10:00 AM
I was stuck at a day of tax lectures on Eid. Didn't even get the opportunity to pray because of the travel. Spent the rest of the day with the parents which was nice.
but Eid is 3 days. i got 2 miss school on the first day and i spoke 2 my familly in lebanon over the phone it was a nice day.:)
Patient Boy
10-29-2006, 10:14 AM
I was stuck at a day of tax lectures on Eid. Didn't even get the opportunity to pray because of the travel. Spent the rest of the day with the parents which was nice.

Really, when you think about it isn't a tax lecture a kind of a khutba?

I hope the rest of the Muslims on this board had a good Eid.
Patient Boy
10-29-2006, 10:17 AM
Great stuff.

I think it's great that your family is "into" family. You are indeed blessed and lucky.....I sense I'm not alone in wishing that certain family relationships in my life were more....shall we say....conducive to gatherings and such....

I'm sorry to hear that.

Yeah. I'm not really into my extended family so much, but my mum, dad, brother, sis-in-law and niece are everything to me. It was only when I got a bit older that I realised a functioning family (fighting included) wasn't always the norm.
DrewTheXenocide
10-29-2006, 12:58 PM
Oh, and we eat lots of absurdly fattening food. Traditionally here we eat something called ketupat, which is sort of like a rice dumpling compressed in a satchet of coconut leaves before being cooked. It's served with rendang (which is normally either lamb or beef cooked in coconut milk and spices) and a sort of vegetable gravy (which also incorporates coconut milk sometimes).




I friggin' love rendang when my mom or aunts make it. When I eat other peoples'... not so much.
Merey
10-29-2006, 01:02 PM
That's truely awesome, Patient Boy. Thanks so much for sharing that with us. And your niece is adorable.
Adam Crocker
10-29-2006, 07:25 PM
Well I suppose I should be less awestruck with cuteness since you've shown me a few photos of your niece Zhaki, but awwwwwwww.... She's so cuuuuuuttteeee!

I take it that she's feeling better then if she went on the trip?

Oh, and we eat lots of absurdly fattening food.

So it's like the traditional gamer diet, but more nutritious and a lot more interesting? :p
Iangould
10-29-2006, 09:34 PM
She's a Ramadan baby, just like me.

So what are the rules regarding Ramadan for infants, breast-feeding mothers and pregnant women?

I assume they aren't required to fast but it never really occured to me to wodner abotu it until you mentioned "Ramadan babies".
Patient Boy
10-30-2006, 07:29 AM
So what are the rules regarding Ramadan for infants, breast-feeding mothers and pregnant women?

I assume they aren't required to fast but it never really occured to me to wodner abotu it until you mentioned "Ramadan babies".

There's no requirement for infants (because they're not yet self-aware, you're not required to hold to any religious responsibilities until puberty anyway) and feeding mothers. Pregnant women aren't required to fast if they think it might endanger their pregnancy, but both my mum and sister-in-law fasted while they were pregnant(I was born during the first week of Ramadan, my niece during the last week). And look where that got me. Posting on a comic book forum in the middle of the night.