Blessing?
In case you did not know girls do not fast or pray while they have their period. The praying you do not have to make up for, but for every day you do not fast, you have to make it up on a different day after Ramadan.
This is a blessing sometimes, when you need a break from fasting - and when you have a big fetaar party and you want to taste the food before you serve it.
It's also a curse, coz you have to make it up when everyone else is not fasting.
I do not know a single girl who makes up for all of the days she didn't fast.
At a young age you are taught that you should hide the fact that you are not fasting and pretend that you are fasting. So living with 2 young boys and my dad means having to fast anywayz but it doesn't count!
Last year, living with nisrin, it was strange for me to actually not fast when i am not fasting
Girls, is it like that in other countries?
This is a blessing sometimes, when you need a break from fasting - and when you have a big fetaar party and you want to taste the food before you serve it.
It's also a curse, coz you have to make it up when everyone else is not fasting.
I do not know a single girl who makes up for all of the days she didn't fast.
At a young age you are taught that you should hide the fact that you are not fasting and pretend that you are fasting. So living with 2 young boys and my dad means having to fast anywayz but it doesn't count!
Last year, living with nisrin, it was strange for me to actually not fast when i am not fasting
Girls, is it like that in other countries?
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It has become like that in Bosnia over time. Even though it is weird to say more and more girls are trying to hide that they are not fasting and no one makes up for the time (including me). But i see a lot of other people doing stuff like fasting while travelling and when sick or old which is also not allowed precisely for the purpose of it not being healthy and good for the body.
It is obvious that girls don't like admiting that they are not fasting cause it might tell the rest of the world that they have their period but otherwise i see no reason in pretending.
Can anyone explain that part?
To my knowladge, hiding the fact that you are not fasting is just to show respect to other people who are fasting. But it not related to period.
"People fasting while travelling and when sick or old" they shouldn't do that it's not allowed as you said.
I'm guessing that in most parts of the world women would be "discrete" at the least, if not secretive, about when it is that time of month....
Although plenty of western girls like to announce the fact loud and clear - to freak guys out, get the upper hand in argument/negotiation, or just give the people around them a little bit of a heads up....
hehe - similar here, though we weren't allowed to eat during the day since it's disrespectful to eat in front of people who're fasting, but we could always eat in our rooms.
See that is another thing: eating in front of people who are fasting: is that disrespectful of what, because every time i ask someone about that they say: they fast because they want to and it is their choice not mine. But i am just afraid that it makes it more dfficult for them. Personally i have no problem, when someone eats, drinks, smokes in front of me i don't really care when fasting. What about you guys?
If you are a smoker and someone smokes around you, it is pretty tough, and quite distracting.
I would mind someone eating really - although someone just going to town on a big plate of delicious food right next to me, all yummm'ing and mmmmm'ing and ahhhhhh'ing while they savour it would just be a bit like.....annoying.
Hmm... I don't think I ever pretend to fast when I'm having my monthly girly friend around. Perhaps that's because I have three sisters (and you know what's the go with girls/women who live under the same roof when it comes to "time of the month").
I also lived in Australia where Muslim is minority. Yet, as an Indonesian, I also never have such problem as I have many non-Muslim friends as well.
This may sound selfish but I don't feel THAT bad when I eat/drink in front of someone who fasts as I don't have any problems to have/see someone eating/drinking in front of me when I'm fasting.
I guess it's because fasting is part of religious practice, so it really comes back to you...
Most it not all Muslim women I know make up for the fast that they missed.
But I guess to each its own.
One question i really want an answer to is what happens when you're 'spotting'? I know many girls who have spotting in between their periods, and would this mean they cannot fast or say prayers or actually even pray when they have spotting (i.e. always)? Is spotting even classified bleeding?
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