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happy ramadan!
can the muslims please explain to me the basics of ramadan?i believe its something to do with fasting and the date to do with the moon ? but then i could be wrong.

Here's Wikipedia's take on Ramadan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan

I haven't had a chance to go through and check their sources, but I suspect that it's a very good, albeit basic, outline -- at least, if their Muslim fact checkers are about as good as their Jewish fact checkers.

It was explained to me once that Ramadan is for Muslims like Simchat Torah is for Jews -- a celebration of the occasion on which the holy text was revealed to the people (Jewish) or to the prophet (Muslim). The Muslim calendar is lunar and therefore not seasonally fixed, so while the Muslim month of Ramadan doesn't change, it does march backward through the secular months, so that one year Ramadan takes places in the early spring, and the next year it'll take place in the late winter.

So, yay! Happy Ramadan to all the Muslims who read this. May you have an easy fast, and I hope you have a fantastic Eid.

I am fasting and i am HUUNNNGGGRRRRYYYY!!!!! ^.^ Oh and bye the way how did the owner of this guild like invite me in here? Do i know them or something?

Sorry I didn't know my question was answered. Thank you the Eid Celebration with my family made me grateful for what I had. And thank you guys for observing Ramadan by acknowledging it here! Oh and if you picked people at random, it seems like a coincidence since I just started wearing the head cover! What a coinkydink! (you say like you spell it)

Zenama, would you be able to point us towards a site that addresses the Muslim philosophy behind hijab (head covering) and hajaba (modesty)? I know there are hundreds and thousands of sites out there, but I'd love to read one which you particularly like, and which expresses your own views.