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Tell HN: Eid Mubarak
To the Muslims on HN, Eid Mubarak! And to everyone else, Eid Mubarak!
For those who don't know. Eid is a day of celebration after the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fasted for 30 days from sunrise to sunset with no food or water. It's something 2B people around the world celebrate to today or tomorrow (moon sighting permitted).
A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say check it out! After over 20 years of doing it I'm still learning something new every year, or I should say, unlearning bad habits we've created for ourselves as a society through abundance.
Hope you all have a great day!
- islotr 4y agoJust a reminder that Mohammed raped a nine-year-old girl, and women and girls under Islam are still suffering to this day under this perverse, misogynistic belief system. Eid Mubarak.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't take HN into religious flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- chroma 4y agoIf there were an HN thread celebrating some holiday in Scientology or FLDS or the Westboro Baptist Church, would you hold people to these same rules and flag any criticism? The founder of Islam was far worse than the founders of any of the religions I listed. Why does he get a pass? Just because billions of people think he was a good person?
- uthinter 4y agoThis greeting shouldnt be on HN in the first place.
- msmakhlouf 4y agoEid Mubarak :)
- yousifa 4y agoEid mubarak!
- crakenzak 4y agoEid Mubarak all! So grateful for this community -- feels like I've learnt more through here than all of university ;)
- shamiln 4y agoEid Mubarak; thank you - it's nice to hear it from someone other than my close circle
- yousifa 4y agoI will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn't do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things. As the Quran says: "Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn piety and righteousness" [Quran 2:183]
- tradertef 4y ago>> I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. Yes, sleep deprivation is the most difficult part. Going to bed late due to invitations, prayers.. getting up early morning to eat breakfast and waking up for work :)
- hqudsi 4y agoYea I like to describe fasting like going super saiyan but in spirituality and religiosity.
- jorts 4y agoThanks for that insight. I didn't realize it extended beyond food/water/certain vices.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoThe Christian tradition calls it "fasting, prayer and almsgiving".
- _a_a_a_ 4y agodoes it correspond to lent in some way?
- Jorengarenar 4y ago"Lent"?
- jimmyed 4y agoFasting is a great idea, but most of the Muslim friends I have eat through out the night after breaking the fast at sunset. I don't think that is very healthy.
- hazn 4y agoalways embrace the idea, never embrace the people. Eid Mubarak!
- amriksohata 4y agoIts not particularly healthy, though many ancient cultures prior to Islam have used fasting as part of a way to cleansing of the gut. The relevance to the moon is also from Pagan cultures
- jorts 4y agoThe gut naturally cleanses itself.
- naravara 4y agoThere is some weak evidence out there that periodic fasting can induce a host of salutary changes in the GI-tract microbiome. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/fasting-gut-health-science https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/fasting-gut-health-science
- nullchan 4y agoHave you ever occurred to you that it might be the other way around? There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up. Also, Moon is relevant in Islam, as a calendar and timekeeping, nothing to be worshipped. Also, All Monotheistic Religions have had fasting (the 3 big ones that survived so far) but again, the worst enemy of the people is their own selves and not the devil, and thus they modified what was given to them.
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- velid0 4y agoEid mubarak gençler!
- omneity 4y agoEid Mubarak Said, back at you and to everyone in HN. In our traditions this is also a day of honey and almond-paste based sweets. For anyone currently in Berlin who wants to try the moroccan Eid experience, hit me up! And make sure you’re ready for an exquisite sweetness rush :)
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- CommanderData 4y agoEid mubarak fellow HNers. Hope you enjoy your day of tradition!
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- mcphage 4y ago(Can we get this un-flagged?)
- azifali 4y agoEid Mubarak
- Aeolun 4y agoEid Mubarak! > no food or water But really no water? That doesn’t sound healthy. Of course you can easily make it through a day without fluids but…
- mkoubaa 4y agoWithin 5 days I'm fully adjusted but there are some symptoms of dehydration before that. Leads me to doubt the conventional wisdom these days of "drink gallons of water per day to have a chance of being healthy"
- IndigoIncognito 4y agoPeople sit exams during ramadan, I don't know how
- jacooper 4y agoYou get used to it
- kioleanu 4y agoIn Germany, Muslim students had their exams excused this week, when everyone else wrote them. They can take them next week
- conradfr 4y agoTerrible idea and precedent IMHO.
- IndigoIncognito 4y agoWhy?
- IndigoIncognito 4y agoI wonder why, Muslims only make up 5% of Germany's population, fiscally this wouldn't make much sense given that they would have to make a second exam paper & provide more labour
- totemandtoken 4y agoEid Mubarak to you too akhi!!
- tt_dev 4y agoEid Mubarak!
- samuria 4y agoEid Mubarak!
- jacooper 4y agoAnother note, one of the main ideas of Ramadan is to experience the struggle of the poor, who can't find food to eat. > its purpose being to cleanse the soul by freeing it from harmful impurities. Muslims believe that Ramadan teaches them to practice self-discipline, self-control,[65] sacrifice, and empathy for those who are less fortunate, thus encouraging actions of generosity and compulsory charity (zakat).[66] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan
- 2b3a51 4y agoUK Midlands city of a million, neighbourhood close to city centre with a majority(?) Muslim population drawn from diverse ethnic traditions. The guys with the buckets have been out on most main roads all through the month - respectfully offering the chance to donate - no 'compulsion' in evidence. People are generous round here. I pop my coins in and others are putting in fivers and tenners. Definitely party time here at the moment. Excited children and huge amounts of food being cooked.
- rsynnott 4y agoAs I understand it, ‘compulsory’ here means that it’s a religious obligation, in general, not that it is legally enforced.
- hd4 4y agoHate to be that guy, but that's not at all what Islam says about why fasting was prescribed, and it's actually super clear about the purpose. I mean this is pretty basic, so I don't know why I keep hearing that same old line. "O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may develop God-consciousness." https://quran.com/2/183 https://quran.com/2/183
- edmundsauto 4y agoI am not a religious scholar, but wouldn't God-consciousness include having empathy for all beings? I would partially define being enlightened as being able to experience everything in creation.
- zvmaz 4y agoRamadan has little to do with intermittent fasting: the former is a religious prescription enforced by law in some countries [1], the latter is completely up to the individual. Happy Eid. [1] https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog/monde/algerie-2-ans-de-prison-ferme-pour-un-non-jeuneur-lors-du-ramadan-21-10-2010-1252584_24.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog/monde/algerie-2-ans-de...
- axus 4y agoFasting is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Maybe someone could explain what "non-intermittent" fasting would be?
- skinkestek 4y agoI'd say the difference is if there is some regularity to it. Intermittent fasting can be fasting Monday to Friday and only eating in the weekends like how I think one HN-er described his 5/2 diet. It can be OMAD (one meal a day) or something else. The main thing is you fast and stop fasting repeatedly. None-intermittent fasting is when you just skip food for a day like I did last week or for a few days like I did as a teenager.
- broast 4y agoAn important distinction is while fasting for Ramadan, you can't ingest anything at all, including water. Unlike intermittent fasting where practitioners might still have 0 calorie coffee to stay stimulated, and water to stay hydrated.
- skinkestek 4y agoAgreed. I think it is correct to say that Ramadan fasting is intermittent but intermittent fasting is not Ramadan fasting, except the subset of fasting that is Muslims fasting during Ramadan. I also think some others, among them Christians, fast completely. Personally I am Christian but when I fast, the vast majority of the times it has been because I was bored or needed to focus, and I didn't punish myself by breaking fast once a day but just went without food a day or two or three until I became bored of that too or family demanded I ate.
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoNo religious flamewar on HN, please. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ilrwbwrkhv 4y agook, sorry
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- emran101 4y agoKhair Mubarak!
- tildef 4y agoEid Mubarak everyone!
- adityapurwa 4y agoEven deeper, the essence of Ramadan is to not eat and drink while you need it the most, during the day, where you work and get tired. It resonates with the feeling of holding your anger even when you have the rights to be angry. Holding your arrogance when faced against someone who had less money, fame, etc, than you. And Ramadan fasting is more than just not eating and drinking. You are not allowed to lie, to be angry, to speaks foul/dirty. Eid Mubarak! Taqabalallah!
- zvmaz 4y agoA study on judicial rulings show a link between rulings and the time they have been issued between food breaks [1]. It appears that the more hungry the judges are, the less they show clemency. Similarly, living in a Mulsim country, I have not observed the virtues that supposedly stem from religious fasting. [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108
- oneiric 4y agoThe Hungry Judge Effect has been debunked. Not that your larger point is not valid.
- soulofmischief 4y agoIf you're going to claim something is debunked, a citation would be greatly appreciated.
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- exolymph 4y agoBig thread about it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491060
- adityapurwa 4y ago
- psyfi 4y agoوَلِتُكۡمِلُوا۟ ٱلۡعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا هَدَىٰكُمۡ وَلَعَلَّكُمۡ تَشۡكُرُونَ :)
- H8crilA 4y agoTIL that emojis are not rotated 180 degrees in Arabic. Also, you don't rotate numbers either, right? As in, if you were to embed 12345 in a sentence it would look like: This sentence talks about 54321, which is a number just under 00002.
- zen_1 4y agoYes, numbers in Arabic are LTR even when they're used mid (RTL) sentence. We'd also use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals instead of the confusingly named (western) Arabic numbers 0123456789...
- doetoe 4y agoIn a way it makes more sense to have the units come first, i.e. how the numbers are written in Arabic. Namely, when you do arithmetic you start with the units, so that in English (etc) when you compute 1234 + 5678 you cannot just start writing down digits, but you have to reserve space and work backwards.
- llamaz 4y agoThis is intentional. They're called Arabic numerals for a reason - when they were imported to Europe to replace Roman numerals, they weren't flipped. This is why mental arithmetic is harder than it needs to be.
- mkl 4y agoNope. These numerals got to Arabic from India, where writing is LTR, and the digit order was unchanged during that transition and the transition to Europe. The order we use is the original order. They're called Hindu-Arabic numerals [1] for a reason, and in Arabic the equivalent [2] are called Indian numbers (أَرْقَام هِنْدِيَّة) [3]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals [3] https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=%D8%A3%D9%8E%D8%B1%D9%92%D9%82%D9%8E%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D9%87%D9%90%D9%86%D9%92%D8%AF%D9%90%D9%8A%D9%8E%D9%91%D8%A9&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=%D8%A3%D9%8E%...
- _private 4y agoEid Mubarak.
- xeromal 4y agoEid Mubarak!
- SanderNL 4y ago[flagged]
- anon223345 4y agoI have new neighbors who are Muslim, how would I wish them happy Eid Mubarak? Like a card or something? I barely know them they’re new, but want them to feel welcome, think they might be the only Muslim neighbors
- Toobam 4y agoJust saying the word "Happy Eid Mubarak" alone is okay.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoTechnical note: "Happy Eid Mubarak" is a phrase is a bit like "Happy Merry Christmas", since "Eid Mubarak" translates as "Blessed Eid". "Eid Mubarak" is fine as is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr#General_rituals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr#General_rituals
- pclmulqdq 4y ago"Eid" is the day, and "Mubarak" means merry/blessed. So "Happy Eid" could be the sentiment if you're uncomfortable with pronouncing "Mubarak" (which is completely phonetic, by the way) or just "Eid Mubarak."
- dirtybird04 4y agoJust say "Eid Mubarak" with a warm smile, should be good. Could be followed by a friendly hug and a gift of sweetmeats but that's mostly for family & friends. And for the curious: the proper response to an "Eid Mubarak!" is "Khair Mubarak!"
- uthinter 4y ago[flagged]
- mdp2021 4y agoIf you are afraid of offending people through interactions, what makes you comfortable here instead?
- faisal_ksa 4y agoEid Mubarak ♡ everyone
- Juliate 4y agoI am a bit confused: are we going to get more similar posts (which is tangent to some proselytism, under the premise of well wishing?) for each and every religious faith major event around the globe? I am saying this as a former believer (and holding no grudge), definitely aware of the fine line between sharing and pushing cultural items, and balancing the two rather equally in a diverse team. EDIT: actually, it's a topic in itself in a matter of company/team management. I saw a similar concern grow in one of my older team in a previous job, because the company "inclusion and diversity" department held a _very_ unbalanced and awkward take in this regard, talking a lot about some religious/cultural items, and ignoring quite a few others (from different equally present countries of origin and faiths), actually resulting in a fracture in the self-perceived image of the team. That's really a delicate matter.
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- dang 4y agoReligion-related topics are not anathema here, although religious flamewar is, and of course it's not easy to keep the two separate. Religion has been (and is) such a big part of humanity that it would be inconsistent with HN's core value of intellectual curiosity to try to declare it all off topic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). p.s. Please let's not go into name-calling like "fruit-cakery". You can make your substantive points without that!
- HopenHeyHi 4y ago[flagged]
- throw1234651234 4y agoQuestions to understand better: 1. Is the practioner supposed to abstain from "bad" things in the evening after breaking the fast or is it just during the day? What's the hardline, "accepted", and commonly practices answer to this? 2. Is the big dinner party thing on the last day of fasting or the subsequent day? 3. Do people get gifts, when?
- Ratavata 4y ago1- You should abstain from bad things all year round everyday. In Ramadan, during the day, you shouldn't eat, drink, smoke or have sex. This will nullify your fast if you do instantly. However, other things such as lying, backbiting..etc it's also bad and you should abstain from it as much as you can. 2- Big dinners are everyday at sunset. Some people/cultures have several meals before dawn, some other prefer to have just one or two. 3- Nobody get gifts. Usually, it's kids who get new clothes during Eid and they also get money gifted to them (usually small change and can range between $1 and $20 depending where you are). During Eid its required to visit family and friend in their home.
- adityapurwa 4y ago1. They probably get their fasting rewards if they do bad things at night, but they still got sins from doing that bad things at night. Its just that if you do it during the day it invalidates your fasting rewards and all you get is hunger and thirst. 2. Dinner party is a cultural thing, because we didn’t eat during the day and we have the same time to break fast, it became a party because everyone do it at the same time and usually at the same place. But the day of breaking fast (the Eid Iftar), you are supposed to eat in the morning to declare that Ramadan has ended and you can continue eat at day. 3. Another cultural things. Here, it happens few days before the end of Ramadan. The government mandates company to pay bonus during religious celebrations (christmas for christians, eid iftar for moslem, chinese new year for chinese, etc).
- mkoubaa 4y ago"Supposed to" is not the language I'd use. People feel motivated given their self control for food and water and are encouraged to try and use that momentum to also be better people. In my personal experience as a compulsive snacker being able to fast daily for a month makes me feel like I can do anything
- tppiotrowski 4y agoIt seems like there is a geographical bound on practicing (Orthodox?) Muslims. I imagine past 66.5 degrees of latitude, someone fasting would probably die due to the fact that the sun will never rise for a month. Has there been any debate or clarification on how Muslims living in complete darkness are to practice? Edit: sun will never set/living in 24 hour sunlight. The fasting time is during daylight hours.
- wedn3sday 4y agoIm curious what the approved method is for muslims in space? like, can you have a snack every 90 minutes?
- mnd999 4y agoIt’s my understanding that if you are subject to unusual fasting conditions - 24hr daylight / darkness / in space you follow the rules as if you were in Mecca.
- elashri 4y agoYes there is two main opinions for scholars. The first one is obvious, people in this place follow the fasting time of the nearest place that have sound sunrise/sunset times. The other is to follow the fasting times of mecca.
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- lwhalen 4y agossshhhhh, it's not irrational superstition if it's been practiced for > 200 years. At that point it becomes quaint tradition. After 500 years, it's 'cultural practice'. Beyond that, unquestionable dogma. Mankind will only be free when the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last politician.
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- Rakib_7 4y agoEid Mubarak from India
- rsynnott 4y agoI was unaware until this year that it was based on when the moon was _sighted_, not just on a conventional lunar calendar. This leads to very short notice public holidays in a couple of countries AIUI.
- psyfi 4y agoMost Muslim majority countries give one or more day before/after the expected day just in case
- lanstin 4y agoRamadan is one clear case where being in a place with many coreligionists obviously improves the experience of practising that religion. one can meditate alone, pray alone, even keep kosher as a small minority, but fasting amongst people with snacks and big gulps all day is harder than all together. Eid Mubarak!
- RajT88 4y agoI didn't either, but my boss (who is Turkish) mentioned that there was middle-eastern countries where holidays were not totally predictable. This was in the context of some work-day report which had funky options. Makes more sense now.
- thriftwy 4y agoThis leads to issues in e.g. Norilsk where it is polar summer during important Islam dates and you can often not see the moon at all.
- h1fra 4y agoIsn't the decision coming from the "muslim authority" (sorry I don't know the terms) located in the mecca anyway?
- elashri 4y agoThat's the other Eid,[1] which is related to the islamic pilgrim which occurs in Mecca mainly [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha
- tempodox 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_Mubarak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_Mubarak
- sizzle 4y ago[flagged]
- SftwrSvior81 4y agoNope, no fap.
- flangola7 4y agoDeal breaker. What if a friend or a robot does the fapping for you
- MMAesawy 4y agoTechnically it's no orgasm.
- SftwrSvior81 4y agoSame thing. The idea is go without a lot of the comforts we are accustomed to in order to experience life as those less fortunate do so that we may be more empathetic towards our fellow humans.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't do this here.
- sizzle 4y agoSorry please delete
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- mrwnmonm 4y agoDidn't expect this here. <3
- b800h 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoThis is baiting a religious flamewar. Please don't do that here—it's the last thing we need. In this thread of all places. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- b800h 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoThat comment is still in the flamewar style. Score-settling is not in keeping with the spirit of intellectual curiosity that is supposed to animate this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. As it happens, you could answer your question in a few seconds: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22merry%20christmas%22%20comments%3E1&sort=byDate&type=story&storyText=none https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But the idea of measuring these things to draw conclusions about who supposedly has the upper hand is just another version of the same conflict. We're trying to take a completely different approach to...everything on this site.
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- sgammon 4y agoEid mubarak!
- tintedfireglass 4y agoEid mubarak my fellow Hners !
- ryzvonusef 4y agoEvery time Ramzan rolls out, we here in Pakistan have squabbles over eye-witness evidence of moon sightings and thus start (and stop) of the holy month. We will be celebrating Eid on Saturday but some celebrated today following Saudi Arabia. It's an annual tradition of confusion. Also, this: https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/567790-intent-law https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/567790-intent-law
- nashashmi 4y agoThat is in most countries where they actively seek the moon. There is going to be squabble about visibility. If not visibility, then there is going to be squabble about which other community’s visibility you should align with. Pakistan is the least squabbling country. See crescentwatch.org
- realworldperson 4y ago[dead]
- 23B1 4y agoEid sayeed!!
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- uthinter 4y ago[flagged]
- eganist 4y agoPlease don't use scarequotes to demean a religion and its adherents. Being welcoming of others with varied backgrounds is wonderful and something I'm hopeful more of us can do on HN; it's a great way to give broader perspectives a home and give us all more opportunities, both to connect as well as to build.
- arbitrage 4y agoAnd yet here you are, reading and participating in a thread for which you do not come here.
- catchnear4321 4y agowhich doesn’t disprove their comments. what exactly are you trying to say?
- uthinter 4y agoI never claimed in any of my replies that I refrain from participating in topics even if they disgust me. That interpretetion was all yours.
- mdp2021 4y agoIt is consistent with the scope of intellectual curiosity. With the occasion of a kind greeting to all.
- mdp2021 4y agoDan, are you sure you want to keep this level of incivility on the board? Think again, if it is really proper to not encourage exchange and encourage instead perplexing """performance art""". Too similar to the directly anti-axiological "how does that make you feel".
- anad7 4y agoIf you have a friend who celebrates Eid, try and have some Seviyaan and Sheer-Khurma at their place.
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- prisonguard 4y agoMash-Allah Eid Mubarak!
- Slava_Propanei 4y ago[dead]
- joemazerino 4y agoThere's something to note that Middle-East has a low incident of cancer in comparison to other regions while still having a high fat/sugar diet. I believe fasting is a large part of that equation.
- shadowbanned-00 4y agoAlhamdulilah!
- bioinformatics 4y agoHappy Easter everyone, belated
- 29athrowaway 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoReligious flamewar is not welcome here and will get you banned, so please don't do it again. We've had to ask you about this before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24682545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24682545 - and similar things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497529 (June 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046182 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26935566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26935566 (April 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836417 (April 2020) Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?
- 29athrowaway 4y agoOK, will do. That summary helps putting things on perspective, thanks.
- desertraven 4y agoJust more generally, I was wondering if people might share their experience of Islam? I'm quite ignorant honestly. How did you come to find the religion? What impacts (positive and negative) does it have on your life? One thing which has made me uncertain, is the praising of martyrdom throughout the Quran. How is this aspect reconciled within peaceful societies? I mean no disrespect through this question, and recognise this may not be the best place to ask.
- nashashmi 4y agoDefinitely not the best place to ask but I try. Martyrdom in literal terms is death by any means other than natural. So if a building collapses on a person, they are called martyred. I am not sure which one you are referring to but if you mean the martyrs of battle, they get a special kind of salvation on the day of judgement. Your fourth question is funny. Peaceful societies are transient. When push comes to shove, no society is “peaceful”. Islam works upon an order of laws that command action and discipline at all times including during persecution and battle. The first physical battle is one for your defense. The second battle is one for the liberation of another. Anyone who dies in this cause is given a certain kind of salvation different from any other. But to be honest, the salvation is not the highest of salvation that one could get. There are higher magnitudes. Islam gives a person structure (as all religion do?), an absolute perfect guidance, and an order of hierarchy that puts God above all, and the worshiper as His slave. From this point on, the worshiper struggle and strives in the path to establish his prayers, pay the charity that is due, and fast. My journey is one of successes and falls. And persistence. It helps me discover personal flaws, work towards eradication, and then discover deeper truths and more concealed flaws. And upon an endless cycle that I hope by the time I meet my lord, I am free of any and all imperfections. Without Islam, I am a slave to my desires and intellect, which is self driven, and misleading. Last note: A Muslim is one who submits to God, follows the religion of Abraham called Islam as conveyed by Muhammad, peace on them both, who was gifted with a miracle called the Quran. It is the only religion that specifically came by design for all of mankind. And though this is a challenging statement to make, the Quran is bold enough to make it. I cannot imagine a book or making such high claims, and not fail them even after so many centuries, without being a miracle itself.
- khuss 4y agoEid Mubarak to fellow hackers! I'm so grateful to this community for helping me to stay up to date on technology and entrepreneurship.
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