Ramadan & Rosh Hashanah: A Beautiful Clash of Civilizations
Thursday September 13, 2007
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One of the disadvantages (depending on how you look at it) of basing Muslim holidays on a lunar calendar is that Ramadan is always on the move. Islamic holidays move...
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About Hungry for Ramadan
The last update to the Hungry for Ramadan blog was in October 2007. We welcome your comments about Ramadan and Islam in general in our Muslim forums.
Shahed Amanullah, a frequent Beliefnet contributor, is one of the country’s foremost Muslim journalists. He has harnessed the power of the Internet to spread a positive view of Islam. Amanullah is the editor of altmuslim.com, a Muslim news website, and founder of Halalfire Media, a network of Muslim-themed websites with more than five million annual visitors. Through his work Amanullah has tapped into a strong force of online activism. He lives in Texas with his wife and two sons, and looks forward to the spiritual rewards of Ramadan every year.
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I agree that there is poetic beauty in the shared holiday times. However, I am also aware that fasting can make people grumpy, and that when people are grumpy they do not make the best, or most well thought through decisions. My hope is that the peace and joy of the holidays will surpass their grumpiness.
Both Rosh Hoshanah and Ramadan are celebrations of beginnings. Let these holidays in 2007 celebrate a new beginning, new appreciation, and renewed respect for each other in all traditions and religions.
Nice point about the "opportunity" of bumping into other holidays...
Great to see this blog Shahed!
Hey, don't knock it! Now you have the Jewish controlled media talking about Ramadan! :)
God works in mysterious ways (always good)
Greetings on the occasion of the Holy Month of Ramadan! I just stumbled on this site today and I thought i stumbled into Utopia at Web 2.0 or second life where all belief could co exist in peaceful co-existence!
Sites such us this brings us all a gift of relief specially during the Holy Month of Ramadan. Relief from war and hatred. I wish you would be blessed to continue writing on the website.
As a Spiritual exercise fasting and the provision of it should be kept without outward 'indicators' to draw attention to oneself. The rewards from G-d will be manifest for the edification of the faithful and at His discreation to reveal it or not. Assuming God's response to how we charcterize our self can fill us with the kind of pride that can undermine the truth of worship [His Glory]. The trappings of holiness are all around us let us be prudent to the continuity of it all, love does not oppress, kindness is God's greatest intent toward us, obedience is the reverence we have to honor G-d, Mercy and justice are the guides to reveal G-d in us, equity and grace patiently administer the corrections which strengthen us in holinewss.
Blessing to all in the name of the CreatorKing.
Well said, Mr. Amanullah. I offer this question posed of the Dalai Lama by Asra Q Nomani: "...what can our leaders do to transcend the issues of power that turn people of different religions against each other?"
He replied, "There are three things we must do. Read the scholars of each other's religions. Talk to the enlightened beings of each other's religions. Finally, do the pilgrimages of each other's religions."
Thanks again.
In response to a question from Muslim American journalist Asra Nomani about how to end the divisions between religions, the Dalai Lama replied: "Read the scholars of each other's religions. Talk to the enlightened beings of each other's religions. And, make the pilgrimages of each other's religions."
The church year whether it is Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, including Ramadan, Lent, or Rosh Hashanah, is just such a pilgrimage.
When God created Esau and Jacob, did he intend for them to separate? Why did He not stop Cain and Abel from separating? Are we not all our brothers and sisters keepers? What did our Father want us to learn about these terrible separations? As to Islam, so to Judaism. As to Judaism, so to Islam. As to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, so to Abraham. May we salute each other, and be grateful that we can truly learn from each other. And, maybe this year will truly be a Merry Christmas. In the heart of God's Love and the Soul of God's Creation of Life, Amen.
this site is one of the reason I'm grateful for the internet--to meet and dialogue with those of many faith. Glad to see an affirmative view of Islam, instead of the extremist view one gets from the media.
love god
honor the brotherhood
fear the wraith of god