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Because I may forget, Ramadan Mubarak in advance to those observing! ❤️

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Ramadan Gifts in Dubai, UAE for family & friends and employees

As a time for reflection and consideration, Ramadan is an extraordinary chance to show appreciation and gratitude for your employees, business partners, colleagues, and various business stakeholders.

The routine of Ramadan is beginning and ending a day with prayers. It is the method to commit to the Almighty and surrender to him totally. As Ramadan gifts, we have some valuable collections that you can send to your near and precious ones expressing your good wishes. Dates, lampshades, chocolates, etc. are some of the gifts that can be sent to your friends during the heavenly month of Ramadan.

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Ramadan 2024 Fasting Hours: Longest & Shortest Worldwide

Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam, is a time of spiritual reflection and devotion observed by Muslims worldwide. During this sacred period, Muslims abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset. However, the length of these fasting hours varies greatly across the globe due to the Earth’s tilt and the sun’s position. Understanding the Variations in Fasting Hours: As the Earth orbits the…

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Ramadan dates gift Box

Ramadan is a time of spiritual reflection and observance for Muslims around the world. One of the traditional foods eaten during Ramadan is dates, which are believed to have been a favorite food of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Dates are often eaten to break the fast during Ramadan and are also served as a sweet treat throughout the month.

In recent years, the tradition of giving Ramadan dates as a gift has become increasingly popular. Many businesses now offer beautifully packaged boxes of dates, perfect for giving as a gift to loved ones during the month of Ramadan.

These Ramadan dates gift boxes often feature a variety of different types of dates, ranging from soft and sticky Medjool dates to firm and chewy Deglet Noor dates. Some gift boxes also include other sweets or nuts, such as baklava or almonds, to complement the dates.

These gift boxes can be purchased online or in stores, and they make a thoughtful and meaningful gift for friends and family members who are observing Ramadan. Giving a Ramadan dates gift box not only provides a delicious and healthy snack during the month of fasting but also shows your love and support for your Muslim loved ones during this important time.

In conclusion, Ramadan dates gift boxes have become a popular and meaningful way to celebrate and observe the holy month of Ramadan. Whether you purchase a gift box for yourself or for a loved one, these delicious treats are sure to be appreciated and enjoyed throughout the month of fasting.

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Ramadan Mubarak! ☾

Ramadan Mubarak to all who are observing this beautiful month! InshAllah all your fasts, duas, and prayers are accepted!

However, if you are unsure of what Ramadan is, and/or what is done during it, I have a lil infographic that may help you out (* ^ ω ^).

Sources Ramadan information sheet. Islamic Networks Group (ING). (2023, March 20). Retrieved from https://ing.org/resources/for-all-groups/calendar-of-important-islamic-dates/ramadan-information-sheet/  Ramadan. LearnEnglish. (2023, March 21). Retrieved from https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/magazine-zone/ramadan 

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⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:

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With the sword [Al-Saif], we carve the path of martyrdom.

And the memory renews, the heart clenches with the departure of the leaders.

They are men who walked on the path of jihad,

Indeed, they drew us the path of dignity with blood and sword.

Two years since the departure of the sword that lit for us the path of dignity and steadfastness.

Indeed, patient, fighting, daring men who braved horrors have founded this path.

Peace be upon your pure soul, O sword.

Sleep with a clear conscience, for by Allah who raised the sky without pillars, we will not deviate from the path and we will remain loyal, God willing.

Jihad is a tale of dignity, chronicled by men,

With a continuous chain from the blood of the martyrs.

Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade

Al-Aqsa Flood

The Wrath of Saraya

The date of martyrdom: 1 Ramadan 1443 Hijri.

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Note: Saif Abu Libdeh, the founder of the Tulkarem Brigade of Saraya Al-Quds, was martyred on the first of Ramadan in 2022 (April 2022).

Similarly, Amir Abu Khadijeh, the founder of the Tulkarem Brigade of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, was martyred on the first of Ramadan in 2023 (March 2023).

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As Palestinians are slaughtered by the thousands in Gaza and violently attacked during night prayers in the al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel, the West Bank endures massacres that at times go unnoticed during this holy month. I have spent my Ramadan in conversation with a friend from Jenin.  Much has changed since I visited Aseel (not her real name) in August 2023. There are things I saw in Jenin that no longer exist. One of them is my friend’s smile and her spark.

Usually, they say Jenin is a small Gaza. During Ramadan, because the attacks generally happen at night, people are an easy target because they are on the streets late at night. In the past, it was rare for the IOF to enter during the day. Now, they attack during the day; their special forces enter, and after people discover them, their soldiers come within minutes.  Every 2-3 days, there is a new attack in Jenin. In our minds, there is a constant ringing that the IOF may come. We don’t know at what time we will be targeted or when they will enter. There is no stability in our lives. Even when we plan for something, we hedge it with our inshallahs and laugh. There are a lot of ifs. If they don’t enter the camp. If there are no martyrs. If there is no strike. On the second day of Ramadan, they attacked my neighborhood again. We thought it was a bombing because it started with an explosion, but the house was shaking. We were praying fajr, and everyone was screaming outside. The sound of the drone was in our ears. “No, these are missiles,” we realized. There was panic in the streets. Women fainted. People had been walking back from praying at the mosque, and some were still in the street. Alhamdulillah, no one was hurt, we say. The balcony to the room at my uncle’s house where we slept had fallen. It no longer had any glass, and a bullet entered my uncle’s bedroom and reached the kitchen. The drone hit the trees in front of our house. The missiles destroyed the ceiling, and the rockets reached my neighbor’s house on the first floor, exactly in front of our house. Since October 7, Jenin has become a target. There is a clear escalation in the camp and the city. The IOF has used many different weapons to kill us here. They have even been aggressive toward the infrastructure, as though every inch of our city was resisting them. They destroyed much of the camp, and there is no entrance now. The arch is gone, and there is no sign reminding us that Jenin refugee camp is a temporary place. There is no horse. Only the street is left. You have the photographs. You were lucky. They changed the shape of the camp, and everything has been destroyed. --Aseel

The first time Aseel and I met in person was in Nablus at the Martyrs Roundabout. As we caught up, we ate a delicious concoction of ice cream, milk, nuts, and fresh fruit that was a perfect balm to the heat. She took me to some of her favorite places nestled within the old city of Nablus. A 150-year-old barber’s shop that felt like you had entered an antique store where plants reached the ceiling and where the barber was a massive fan of Angelina Jolie. A centuries-old house now called Tree House Cafe looked like a hobbit home from Lord of the Rings, where we hid away as she sipped her coffee and I drank a mint lemonade. We visited one of the oldest soap factories in the world with ingredients such as goat’s milk and olive oil, jasmine and pomegranates, even dates and Dead Sea mud. We happened to chance upon a Sufi zawiya as we walked through a beautiful archway decorated with lanterns, light bulbs, and an assortment of potted plants, after which we saw a cobalt blue door on our left and an azul blue door with symmetrical red designs, and Quranic ayat like incantations on our right as doors upon doors greeted us.

The air was welcoming yet mingled with the memory of martyrs whose memorials took over the landscape, sometimes in the form of larger-than-life portraits surrounded by complex four-leafed magenta-white flowers; posters above a water spout next to a heart-shaped leaf; a melted motorcycle that, too, was targeted in the neighborhood that hosted the Lions’ Den. We stopped to pray at a masjid, quiet and carpeted. After a bus ride from Nablus to Jenin, on our walk before entering Jenin camp, Aseel showed me the hospital right outside the camp. She pointed out the barricades created to keep the occupation forces from entering specific streets. This is the same hospital that the occupation forces blocked during the July 2023 attack, which now seems like a lifetime ago.  What caught my eyes again and again were the two Keys of Return on top of the entrance of Jenin Camp that symbolized so much for Palestinians. “This is a temporary station,” Aseel read out loud to me. “That’s what it says. We are supposed to return to our homes.”

“Netanyahu said he is planning another big attack, so the resistance fighters are preparing because it can happen any day,” she had told me that evening as we shared Jenin-style knafeh, baked to perfection. Then she stopped, looked at the sky, and said humorously, “Ya Allah, hopefully not today!” And we both laughed because of its potential reality.  Dinner on the terrace at her uncle’s home was a delicious spread of hummus, laban, fries, cucumbers pickled by her aunt, and arayes — fried bread stuffed with meat. Then we moved the furniture to sleep on mattresses in a room that extended to the rooftop terrace with a breeze, overlooking Jenin Camp and the rest of Jenin City. We could hear gunshots in the distance. The drones were commonplace, and the heat did not relent. Temperatures soared, and the electricity was out when we woke up at 5 a.m. I heard her pray, and later, as we sipped on coffee and had wafters in the early morning at her home, my eyes went to a piece of tatreez, or embroidery, of a bird in flight framed on the wall. Her eyes followed mine and when I said I loved it. “It used to be my grandfather’s,” she told me. “Of course it’s beautiful — the bird is free.”  Unexpectedly, Aseel’s mother gifted me a Sprite bottle full of olive oil beholding the sweet hues of its intact health, which I would later ship secretly from Bethlehem all the way to Boston. And then Aseel came to me with a gift, too: a necklace that spoke succinctly about the right to return and live on this earth. Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry was held together with intricate calligraphy carved in the shape of Palestine’s landscape, and I was completely overwhelmed.  “You are in Palestine, my dear,” she had smiled. “And you are now my family. This is your country, this is your second home, really.” When I ask her about what brings her hope these days, Aseel tells me about her eight-year-old nephew.

He wanted to eat two meals. I told him that in Gaza they don’t have food. He was complaining about the food, and I told him, they don’t have water. And he heard me because he said, “today, we will only have one meal.”  I’m amazed at how mature he is. He even said, “We won’t make a special cake on Eid because of the Gazans.” For me, this is a lesson to be learned. He is only eight years old, but he knows.  We have lost a lot of people in Gaza, but here in the West Bank, we are succeeding because our new generation knows a lot. Ben Gurion would not be happy. He said of Palestinians, “the old will die and the young will forget.” No, the young ask even more questions. The new generation brings us hope. Hope is the new generation.

-- "Ramadan reflections from ‘little Gaza’" by Zehra Imam for Mondoweiss, 6 Apr 2024

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The Struggle of Conviction: A Pro-Israeli Voice in an all-Palestinian Family

The Struggle of Conviction: A Pro-Israeli Voice in an all-Palestinian Family

Date: October 16, 2023

In the midst of today's turbulent events, I feel compelled to share my deeply personal journey. At 34 years old, recently marking my 34th birthday, I reflect upon a life born into a devout Islamic Palestinian family. A life where the value of unity was instilled in me from an early age, but as time passed, it became increasingly apparent that my beliefs were evolving differently.

Interestingly, I developed a strong affinity for Christmas over the years – a holiday imbued with the magic of shimmering lights, grand trees, and endless decorating possibilities. This was a stark contrast to my Islamic upbringing, where Christmas had no place, and festively adorned trees were nowhere to be found. Yet, year after year, just outside my window, I would see my neighbors' beautifully adorned Christmas tree. Returning to school after the Christmas break, my friends and classmates would eagerly share their holiday experiences and gifts, while I silently grappled with the absence of such celebrations in my life. It was a challenge, but with time, I learned to adapt.

I certainly didn't fit the mold of the ideal Muslim. Failing to observe the fast-during Ramadan, for instance, led to a cascade of judgment and shame. From my earliest memories, my mother fervently impressed upon me the dire consequences of not meeting specific religious requirements, warning of eternal damnation. Within my family, an unspoken consensus had taken hold: I wasn't just destined for hell, but I was headed for its deepest depths. Neglecting to pray five times a day or to observe the fast, as my family believed, was seen as falling short of God's expectations. After enduring a ceaseless stream of such admonitions, I began to internalize them.

It was only after receiving a cancer diagnosis that I realized the futility of striving to meet my parents' religious expectations. I had to come to terms with the understanding that winning that battle was an impossibility. In those challenging moments, a mentor's words echoed in my mind: "Choose Life," inspired by the 1996 British black comedy-drama film "Trainspotting," directed by Danny Boyle. The day I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, alongside a tumor in my chest, I found myself in a hospital room, surrounded by Palestinians, my parents, and a host of relatives – some of whom I hadn't seen in years and others I had never met. It was in this pivotal moment that I made a defining decision.

In that hospital room, weighed down by my circumstances, I confidently marked the "Judaism" box under religion on the form. This form would pass through various hands, and the reactions I encountered in response to my choice were nothing short of bewildering. While judgmental looks were cast my way, I met them with a radiant smile.

In summary, my journey has led me to remission and well-being, but it has also exposed me to deep-seated prejudices within my family against Jewish people. Over the years, I've overheard my parents and relatives expressing derogatory remarks about Jewish individuals, suggesting that they were in defiance of God and deserving of their misfortunes. Growing up, Jews were often portrayed as an ominous presence, lurking like a shadow in the background. It was only when I learned about the Holocaust that I realized the long-standing fear-driven narrative that had persisted for generations.

Even before I had the opportunity to study World War II in school, I would question my father about Hitler and his actions. The explanations were consistently simplified: "The Jews were blamed for economic hardships, and people were suffering. What else could have happened?" This narrative conveniently omitted any reference to the complex historical context, including World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.

As I delved deeper into the history of World War I, I made a disconcerting discovery: the "stabbed in the back myth" had not faded into obscurity but had found a contemporary resurgence. This myth centered on the belief that the German Army's defeat in the First World War didn't occur on the battlefield but resulted from betrayal by communists, socialists, and Jewish individuals on the home front.

What struck me as profoundly unsettling was that, this time, it was my own parents who were articulating these beliefs. Though I could never fully comprehend the depth of this hatred, as someone who has endured bullying in life, I can empathize with the emotions involved. However, I firmly acknowledge that there's no valid comparison between the struggles I've faced and the enduring hardships that the Jewish community has historically and continues to endure.

With recent events in Israel on October 7th, I found myself grappling with a sense of shame regarding my Palestinian heritage. The scenes I witnessed were deeply distressing, with Hamas involved in brutal acts against innocent men, women, and children. The chilling cries of "God is great" in Arabic only added to the anguish. This experience has reinforced my belief that it is often the self-proclaimed "god-fearing" individuals who, paradoxically, perpetrate the most harm.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict transcends mere territorial disputes; it is profoundly rooted in religious differences. It has evolved into a religious war between Muslims and Jews, each side fervently asserting their faith. I've long perceived Islam as a demanding faith, one that places a continuous emphasis on submission to God. Growing up, I couldn't help but envy my Christian friends who appeared to have a less burdensome religious experience – attending church once a week and joyfully celebrating Christmas. It seemed as though they faced fewer challenges compared to my upbringing in a devout Islamic household, leaving me with the impression that they received more for less.

In conclusion, I find myself standing alone in my perspective, firmly believing that the Jews have a rightful claim to Israel, especially after the horrors of the Holocaust. While some may argue that the land belongs to the Palestinians, history suggests otherwise. Following the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Palestine fell under British rule. While the British made promises to both sides, the only promise that materialized was the creation of Israel. It's a historical fact. I've never shared my family's abhorrent antisemitic views, and I never will. I stand in solidarity with the Jewish people of Israel; they deserve their homeland, unequivocally. These words may draw criticism and hostility, but I'm undeterred. Antisemitism must be eradicated, and Palestinians must confront the historical reality.

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Don’t be Worshippers of Ramadan 🌙

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🗓Date: 21/04/2023

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2023, Burj al-Brajneh, Lebanon A woman selling dates in a Palestinian refugee camp during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Muslims follow the tradition set by the prophet Muhammad, who believers say used to break his fast by eating dates and drinking goat’s milk during the holy fasting month of Ramadan

Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images

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قال الشيخ صالح الفوزان :

" فإن من أدرك شهر #رمضان ومكّنه الله من #الانتفاع به،

فقد أنعم الله عليه نعمة عظيمة لا يعدلها شيء".

📚 "مجالس رمضان" (١١)

Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan said:

"For whoever accomplishes and completes (the fasting of the month of) Ramadan and Allāh enables him to benefit from it,

Allāh has bestowed upon him a great blessing that nothing can ever equate to. "

📚 “Majalis of Ramadan” (11)

Bilād al-Maghrib, 9th Ramadān 1444 - March 2023, straight after Iftār, before Ishā is even called out, a street vendor gets out all his produce (fresh farm cheese and other natural foods such as dates). Since COVID, and the exponential rise in food prices due to war and lifting of subsidies, poverty has increased significantly across the Arab world and many are experiencing tough living conditions. May Allāh aid the Muslims across the Ummah

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Ramadan Challenge 2023

Day 21/42

Its the halfway point of wearing my cast! 3 weeks down and 3 more weeks to go in sha Allah ;-; I had a very productive day today with work, and I'm also very happy because an article I wrote for a regional journal was finally published. Its my second article and its always so rewarding when they get published. Alhamdulillah 💌

📸 my humble work from home setup (bc I can't sit at my actual desk anymore since my leg has to be elevated), and my current read

Ramadan Day 7/30: Best iftar item?

To break the fast, its always a date! But if its after, Im honestly good with anything that my mom makes! Chocolate cake and homemade pizza are also some of my favorites, which we coincidentally had today 🍕

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I honestly don't know how to feel about this race calendar. The summer break is so short?? There's this weird three weeks off at the beginning of the season. They've backloaded the entire thing too much.

I don't know if anyone's asked you this before, but how would you like to see this calendar? (With the weather and distance in mind ofc)

They always seem to try to do this thing where the season slowly ramps up in the beginning, with the back half of the season being more stacked and I guess that it’s in part to build excitement and anticipation (as well as a lot of circuits wanting to be in the latter half or latter quarter of the season)

The 3 weeks off at the start couldn’t really be avoided with the late cancellation of the Chinese GP after other events had already sold tickets to their specific dates.

Realistically I think it’s hard to get a perfect calendar as there’s so many factors at play and logistics plays a big part too and having many geographically close races together would likely cause havoc with the sea kits.

The sea kits usually contain about 60%-75% of the equipment for a F1 weekend, stuff like all the tooling, garage equipment, stuff for the pit wall etc and in the past teams have had 6 sea kits (they might have more now) and pre season these are shipped to the first 6 races of the season and then on from there (so the sea kit from the first flyaway will then go to the seventh, with the second going to the eighth etc)

I don’t like double headers but in some scenarios they are the lesser of two evils, especially when the races are far from the team bases.

It’s not perfect but here's how I would arrange the 23 races of the 2023 season

My main thing is eliminating triple headers and reducing the number of double headers, there’s some races that are really tricky to place, Canada has to be at a time when the circuit has had no snow for a month or two prior, with the middle eastern races you have to be conscious of the timing of Ramadan and there’s probably other influences that I’ve missed, but I’ve also tried to be aware of teams returning to Europe between races.

Ages ago I made my own F1 calendar it’s here if you are interested

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