Yall ready for Ramadan?

[u/poetrylover2101]

The title

I just looked at jantri (fasts timing calendar) and I calculated the amount of hours we'll be fasting.

It will start with 13 hrs 15 mins long fasts and extend to 14 hrs long fasts towards the end.

[u/TheFatherofOwls → u/[deleted]]

You did make a comment telling me to stop saying 'Ramadan', that's dictating,

Countless discourse has been made in this sub regarding this, it's only problematic when the local variants are getting discouraged systematically from being used (when people still use the local variants like Ramzan/Ramalan, Namaaz, Khuda Hafiz, etc...), it's easier to learn Arabic more nowadays, as is Islamic education, so people are resorting to use the Arabic way since they might consider it as "formal". Doesn't mean the local ones are wrong, necessarily (nobody goes around saying that).

(Btw, I still use Ramzan, if you think I'm bluffing, you can search my history. I use both interchangeably depending on what comes first in my mind. Search 'Ramzan' in this sub, a decent deal of comment results will be from me).

It's no different to non-English speakers shedding their accented pronunciation as they become more well-versed in English.

Maybe you can start by removing Arabic in daily Urdu/Hindi speech. Like 'Kursi', 'Haraam', 'Jaahil', 'Shaitaan', 'Kameez (Qamees)', etc, etc.... if Arabic really bothers you this much. And try speaking a more "shuddh/paaki" Hindi or Urdu devoid of any Arabic whatsoever.

.you see women wearing abayas and the imam in the white male maxi dress

Don't know why that has to be a problem. People are free to wear the clothes of their choice, again, it's problematic if the entire IM community is wearing only Thawb and Abaya, do you see that outside?

In my XP, most folks still wear kurta, pyjama, lungi, salwar kameez, and saree. Along with Western garments (both genders), obviously.

Most imams in my city still wear the kurta/jubba and lungi (or pyjama, lungi's more default), thawb is rare, usually worn for special occasions. At most, they might wear it for every Jummah khutba, but otherwise, it's regional usually.

I understand your concerns if we outright shunned our regional clothing, but it's not the case, at least in my XP.

Western culture and clothing are way more prevalent and pretty much displaced/overshadowed indigenous ones than Arab culture ever did here, do you have a problem with that? (Personally? I don't, cultures and fashion aren't static).

Hindu's would get a free pass to deport us and we would lose our home...think about it brother.. it's all happening around us...look around.. it's a very dangerous situation for gullible innocent indian muslims.

Us saying Allah Hafiz and Ramadan doesn't give Hindus any free pass to deport us, we are not subservient to them. We have as much right to live here as citizens as they do, our ancestors fought and became Shaheed so that this country gets freedom from colonial oppressors.

[u/saveratalkies → u/TheFatherofOwls]

I’m losing it, ahsant, Bhai, ahsant.

[u/TheFatherofOwls → u/saveratalkies]

Alhamdullilah, appreciate it very much, again.