Lessons for Ramazan
Ramazan is a month that is big on beginnings and ends. We anticipate the birth of a new moon and then we watch the glowing crescent orb slowly dissolve as the nights pass. After our final sip of water in the morning, begins a period of anticipation, waiting for the sun to kiss the horizon, thereby signaling the end of our fast. In this holy month of worship, patience, and curbing of all desires, I’m sure we’ve all spent a sizeable chunk of time hungrily reflecting. Here’s what I’ve come up with. Naturally, some reflections seemed revolutionary, while in the ...
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Six reasons why it’s great being a vampire during Ramazan
#1) The hours humans keep Ramazan is a great boon to all vampire-kind because, finally, the rest of the fasting world adjusts its hours to our nocturnal lifestyle. Because sunlight is particularly harmful to our undead dispositions, we are forced to sleep through the day — something that always gives vampires away. But during the splendiferous and holy month of Ramazan, no one bats (like the pun?) an eye in suspicion as most people who fast (especially the delicious, unemployed ones) become torpid and enjoy taking leisurely afternoon siestas to ease their pangs. Said the lone, unassuming rozadar to an ancient Margalla ...
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If you can’t handle me eating before sunset, don’t fast
If you are one of the spineless, weak-willed people who cannot handle seeing other people eating and drinking while you fast, you should probably not be fasting. The infirmity of your faith is not my problem, nor anybody else’s, and does not deserve to be protected by the law. Under the Ihtaram Ramazan Ordinance of 1981, two men were arrested in Sargodha on charges of eating in public. Yes, you read that correctly: eating in public – for the month of Ramazan at least – is a crime in Pakistan. To those that support this law, I would like to pose the ...
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Fasting in times of load shedding
Past Shab-e-Barat, brace yourself for the month of fasting. Actually, Shab-e-Barat is a festival in name only. Its real significance is to usher in Ramazan. The halvas you are treated to, point to the imminence of thirty testing days followed by thirty rewarding evenings. The mandatory fast, requiring that one neither eat a morsel nor take a sip of drink for a whole day, is a test in itself. It’s a vivid reminder of the nature of hunger and thirst. It is only at the end of a day of fasting that one fully appreciates food and drink as God’s great ...
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