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To all our Muslim peeps out there- Blessed Ramadan!
Feb 20, 2026 2:21 AM
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To all our Muslim peeps out there- Blessed Ramadan!
TheInternetNeedsMoreCats
This is wonderful. Also, as a side note, we should fully get over the whole politely refusing food or other hospitality is rude thing. :)
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IgnisInvictus
That's awesome!
pareidoliaperson
A sweet random white guy tells me Ramadan Kareem and it's caught me off guard. Did not know what he said, but then I realised oh it's ramadan and I'm middle eastern (Centre-Asian) looking guy. I said thanks, that's kind. But I'm not practicing. Still very nice of him.
linkdude212
Won't*
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
My first job outside my predominantly Muslim community had people confused because I would go to restaurants with them on our lunch breaks and not eat. They were like "why come if you don't want to eat?" and I'd be like uhh because I also like to get out of the office and chat with you guys? Eventually they got used to it, which also gave rise to the annual pranking of the new guys because I would, at the start of Ramadan before every meal pretend to do Islamic chants before everyone else ate.-
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
My coworkers would bow their heads respectfully while I rattled off nonsense in vaguely mystical sounding arabic, and they'd convince the new guy that this was my way of blessing the meal for the heathens for breaking fast during Ramadan. I'd usually do that for their first Ramadan lunch or two before breaking it off. It was a good laugh.
UnaccomplishedWatcherImNotaBot
It's also Lent
seenunseen
Ah, the yearly sacrifice of wifely pleasure
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
Uhh you can still have sex, just after the sun goes down.
RevengeIsIceCream
Why would I offer them (or anyone else) food?? https://imgur.com/FJE7NQO
RevengeIsIceCream
side note: I hate that imgur is trying to (I assume) other sites direct linking to images, ... fucking up direct linking in comments...
taez555
People get offered food and alcohol?
LicensedAdHominem
You don't?...
georgejimmydoodle
Leftover bagels in the breakroom after so-and-so's meeting happens almost weekly in my department.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Well I think it's like, I'm getting a coffee, can I grab you one? Or asking if they want to come out for lunch.
taez555
I can honestly say no one on Imgur has ever offered to get me a coffee to go out to lunch. :-)
WarKittyKat
It's more common if you work in an office - like if one person is grabbing something small, to ask if your coworkers would like something too.
halkeye
Its rude to turn down things offered to you?
ConfusedConda
I think it's rude when they try to guilt me into taking it.
OrkenMork
That's why many of them sleep during the day and are only active at night.
Thorketil
You've got that mixed up. Those are called vampires.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Wait, sooo... https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MnNwN240bDE2djIya3JzcDg5eGhrc3VicWk1MDBzNTkzb3diNWFxNyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3o6Zt9MapEhDVITFpC/200w.webp or not?
OrkenMork
I work(ed) in IT and one company I worked for had a large number of muslims and during ramadan, they would all change their shifts to the night shift...It was the only time of the year I got to actually meet the night shift people...since now they are all working during the day!
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perlninja
Tell me you know fuck all about Islam without telling me you know fuck all about Islam.
AreYouABadPerson
You can say death you dweeb. Also jfc of all the things you could be mad about regarding religion, you choose Ramadan?
AreYouABadPerson
Oh wait you're just some sort of shitty bigot in general. Ew.
tirpider
If you can't say something without sounding like the bitchy old lady across the street, should you even be saying it?
AreYouABadPerson
Going off their posting history they're just some miserable bigot shrieking into the void.
tirpider
Broken wheel squeaks the loudest.
friendsofsandwiches
does this include water?
perlninja
Yes. No food, no water, no smoking, no vaping, no sex, no nothing. You have to wait until sundown, then you break the fast. And you get up at zero-dark-thirty to eat and drink before the sun comes up.
Exyr
Supposed to.
Lostarchitorture
Hakeem Olajuwon, an NBA player in the 80s and 90s, was huge on following this rule of nothing including water. He'd sweat it out at day games during Ramadan refusing any water during the game until after sundown.
oneduringwanderer
It does, but there are exceptions too.
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
It does. It's also supposed to include smoking and vaping.
Side note: Imgur autocorrected vaping to raping.
friendsofsandwiches
I've seen certain videos that says this is not wrong
pareidoliaperson
Oh no no, those are not muslims! They're Zionists!...oh wait this privilege does not belong here...! /s
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
No food, water, sex, or smoking from sun up to to sun down.
southoffrance
It's not from sun up, it's from dawn onwards. That's an hour and a half earlier than sunrise in the UK, but can be more or less than that depending on latitude.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
I think that “sun up” and “dawn” are colloquially accepted as the same thing.
southoffrance
No. "Sun up" means sunrise. Dawn is when the first glimmer of light appears in the sky, quite a long while beforehand. Fasting begins in darkness each morning in the month of Ramadan.
linkdude212
For clarity: it involves everything, including water. However, pregnant and nursing women are exempted, as are children, elderly, and those recovering from serious injuries or illnesses. The consumption of alcohol is explicitly forbidden at all times while smoking is varyingly viewed as forbidden under the spirit of the rule, to technically permitted but discouraged as being a path of slow self-destruction.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
The elderly are not exempted if they are healthy enough to do so. My grandfather fasted every year until he passed away at 93 and was happy to do so.
linkdude212
You're right, I should have been more clear by saying the infirm.
Rhodabike
We once knew a Muslim restaurant chef who had moved to Canada in a year when Ramadan fell in June. His first job was cooking in a work camp in the Yukon, land of the midnight sun. In June. He was very hungry and surrounded by food.
tinyfootprints
An advice columnist in Saudi Arabia stated that Muslims simply should not visit the polar zones of our planet because prayer schedule is dependent on the timing of sunrise and sunset. But the Quran itself offers a solution: When prayer is difficult or impossible, just save it for later. Seriously, I wonder how Muslims on the ISS handle this? The sun rises and sets every 90 minutes there.
IceKarma
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Muszaphar_Shukor#Spaceflight_and_religion for the tip of the iceberg. 😺
tinyfootprints
LOL, during Ramadan, he could eat any time the ISS was in shade, which is nearly half the time there is. I've had to sleep on a split shift for Ramadan; being in the ISS would be intense. A local paper in Arabia had an "Ask Abdul" column that fielded a question about this. Abdul suggested, "Muslims should not go to space." Imho, Abdul isn't very progressive.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Theres specific rules around that. Usually structured around a 12 hour cycle.
ma8e
I read somewhere that muslims in Scandinavia use the times of the sunrise and sunset in Mecca instead of fasting 20+ hours a day when Ramadan happens in a summer month.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Its almost like its a pragmatic religion!
thedeg
Yeah. My coworkers have an app that tells them when they can eat and stuff.
InitHello
Where my brother lives, on the day of winter solstice, fajr (morning prayer, last call for food) would be 10am and maghrib (evening prayer before iftar) just after 2pm. That's not a lot of time, and some muslims I know would feel robbed of a meaningful fast following local time.