Suhoor and the First Call to Prayer
One of my favourite parts of Ramadan is the first call to prayer. The morning call is when you are meant to stop eating, drinking and smoking and start fasting. At the moment it happens at around 4am or a little bit later. It will be getting later and later as the month wears on...My apartment has two balconies facing the street and they are generally good places to chill. One of my favourite parts of the night is to eat something light for suhoor (the last meal) and to go out onto the balcony right before the first call. At this time, the street is pretty quiet, only the occasional car, definitely no traffic so when it's time for the first call, I can hear 3 different calls to prayer from 3 different mosques simultaneously.
The result is really amazing as the calls to prayer emanate from seemingly everywhere around my little balcony. To call it 'atmospheric' doesn't even begin to describe it. For those of us that aren't muslims, that aren't used to something so innately spiritual being around us every day of our lives, it really feels like something different. It puts my mind in a different state, a relaxed but contemplative state. There's something about it that makes me feel at peace with the world, and I love it.
Just one of the things that I love so much about this part of the world.
Labels: bahrain, philosophy, ramadan
posted by LX @ 11:13 AM
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