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The 4th day of Ramadan 1428

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kombizz kashani

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Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic lunar calendar.
During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours. As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and drinking.

During Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must be restrained from backbiting and gossip. The eyes must restrain themselves from looking at unlawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything that does not belong to it. The ears must refrain from listening to idle talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places. In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast.

Therefore, fasting is not merely physical, but is rather the total commitment of the person's body and soul to the spirit of the fast. Ramadan is a time to practice self-restraint; a time to cleanse the body and soul from impurities and re-focus one's self on the worship of God.

For more info, please check the following sites:
Ramadan -1

Ramadan -2

Ramadan -3

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nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Bonjour Kombizz
FYI your image is not showing…

Though I do respect all men beliefs (provided that their are peaceful, and that none is forced to practice), I found your information interesting but for an atheist as I am, totally terrifying… as all religions and dogmas…

Please see absolutely no offense here, just a human reaction.
 
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Ray West

New member
Hi Kombiz,

I fear you may be infringing the NY Tmes Copyright. You have quoted directly from the about.com site, without acknowledgement, although you do refer us to that site, (your second ref.)

Best wishes,
Ray
 
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Michael Fontana

pro member
Good evening, Kombizz

running the backup of todays difficult shots, I came to OPF and saw your post; as I know a bit about arab culture, especially its wonderfull music, I was disappointed to see just some links to wiki, etc.

C'mon this is a photographer forum and not one for providing religious links, even they might have a lot of meanings to you.

Show it through the photos you make, then we can have a discussion.

Good night.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
kombizz kashani said:
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Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic lunar calendar.
During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours.]
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Kombizz,

I was expecting photographs! I have a great interest in all cultures so we were looking forward to your work on this interesting subject important to so many people even today. Were there supposed to be photographs? Did you just forget to complete the post? I'm puzzled. Without something to do with street photography or Photojournalism even important cultural posts does not belong here.


Tomorrow, there being no pictures, I'll move this thread to the forum where cultural discussions are always welcome! Just trying to keep things in the right place in OPF!

Asher


Now the image is appearing for me!!! Asher
 
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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Kombizz or anyone else knowledgable enough,

Now that we can see the image, can someone tell us what language this is: Urdu, Persian or Arabic and what does it say?

Asher
 
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Georg R. Baumann

Inactive
Anyhow, <grins> as OPF is an international group of a great diversity, and appart from wishing everybody "happy restraining day "or "happy commerce-mas" on a regular basis, and of course pointing out the importance of each of the individual events and linked belief systems, ideally garnished with some links to lectures that explain why this is the ultimate belief system, (sorry the atheist in me could not resists) here is the general approach in case you missed extending important wishes, I present you the INTERFAITH CALENDAR:

http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/

@Nicolas, you know what? They all have their holidays, holy days, except us. I think we should start a petition on a european level to introduce the "atheist day", any suggestions for the date?

How about the Fall of the Bastille, may be? <grins>
 
Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Georg Baumann said:
..@Nicolas, you know what? They all have their holidays, holy days, except us. I think we should start a petition on a european level to introduce the "atheist day", any suggestions for the date?

How about the Fall of the Bastille, may be? <grins>
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I'm not Nicolas, but as another certified atheist I'd (jokingly) suggest this:
a) All days of the year <wink>, or
b) 24th of November (the date when the Darwin's Origin of Species was first published in 1895)

Cheers,
 
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Don Lashier

New member
The image is there, there's just a referral issue so you either need to copy/paste the url or else hit enter after getting the 403.

- DL
 
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Charles L Webster

pro member
Cem Usakligil said:
I'm not Nicolas, but as another certified atheist I'd (jokingly) suggest this:
a) All days of the year <wink>, or
b) 24th of November (the date when the Darwin's Origin of Species was first published in 1895)

Cheers,
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I'd vote for celebrating Equinoxes and Solstices, as did our pagan ancestors.

They are easily predicted, universally observable and do not rely on any lunar phenomenon or historical dating scheme.
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Bonsoir

July 14th is already taken…

What about the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre?
The night between August 23rd and 24th…

Just to underline the crazyness…
 
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Annie James

New member
Great image, has everything to do with 'street' and so is justly in this category no? I too am an Atheist and as I get older my tolerance for organised religion and the mumbo jumbo that goes with it tries my patience to the limit, it's rare that an Atheist will go about forcing Darwinism down Chritsians throats, however, we have to listen to others ramblings etc. If God has a message for me, he can deliver it himself. I do like seeing images of diverse religions, this one is no exception.

Annie
 
Murray Foote

Murray Foote

Member
Not sure what there is to celebrate in that. If anyone should have been massacred it surely should have been the Valois (though they kind of did that to themselves anyway). There would have been a date at which the Revolution abolished Religion but that only lasted a few years anyway. 24th November sounds good ... or maybe if we knew Archimedes' birthday or perhaps that of Democritus ....

Murray

ps. I was responding following Nicolas's post. Annie got in just before me. (Still can't see the image)
 
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Cem_Usakligil

Cem_Usakligil

Well-known member
Georg Baumann said:
Already R.I.P unfortunately, otherwise I'd suggested Sir Francis Vincent Zappa as a potential Pope.
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The job description of a pope does not state being alive as an essential/ required quality <LOL>

Disclaimer: Please see this as an innocent joke, my intention is not to insult any Roman Catholics or Christians out there.
@Asher: if you think I have crossed a line, please delete this post.


Cheers,
 
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Ray West

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Hi Cem,

I think Asher has moved this whole thread - at last - to 'the outrageous corner', so now we can all say what we really want to ;-) a question of 'buyer beware'

(However, Kombiz original post, should still be in the photojournalism section, pity about the fluctuating image.)

Best wishes,

Ray
 
Murray Foote

Murray Foote

Member
In Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy he makes a detailed argument that Marxism is a form of Christianity - therefore perhaps Karl Marx should be Pope (and should probably be Santa Claus as well).

Regards,
Murray
 
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Rachel Foster

New member
I saw Eric Clapton in concert a few months ago. Don't know about Popes, but he sure did seem to be some sort of god the way he became one with his guitar.
 
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Vivek Khanzode

New member
No kidding....Glad to see so many athiests on the forum. I think I am an atheist, but if God were to deliver the message personally to me, I think I would say sorry and that I should've called myself agnostic instead...

I have zero patience for the religious mumbo jumbo too.

Peace.
 
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