Ramadan around the world...

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A random assortment of Ramadan-related pictures, all derived from Yahoo, regarding how Ramadan is being experienced by Muslims around the world… from Muslim Asian workers praying at a parking lot in Dubai, to the launch of “Mecca Cola” in Paris, to a father and son who marked the beginning of this year’s Ramadan by reciting verses from the Holy Quran at a cemetery for martyrs, to an Afghan man just waiting for the arrival of sunrise, to a Muslim boy adjusting his father’s prayer cap, to President Bush’s Iftar dinner at the White House…and more.

i am not certain who has the patience to click and upload all of these images :smiley: Perhaps, what i would suggest instead is to read the captions and only upload those images you think you would find interesting, (as otherwise it might be a waste of one’s time).

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A Lebanese army soldier fires a blank 155mm artillery near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon to mark the end of the fasting day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at sunset, November 11 2002. Muslims fast from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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Ameen Mouzeh, 45, treads a familiar path through the darkened streets of old Damascus, thumping out a regular rhythm on a small drum and pausing to call sleeping residents by name. 'Wake up Mohammed, wake up Ali and start your prayers.' Mouzeh has been performing this annual ritual for the past 27 years. He is a mesaharati, a public waker, who rouses faithful Muslims for prayers and breakfast in the wee hours of the morning during the holy month of Ramadan. During Ramadan, Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from sunrise to sunset as an act of sacrifice and purification. (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).

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Palestinian children place their hands during prayers on the opening to the Ibraheemi cave inside the Ibraheemi mosque in the West Bank town of Hebron, November 11 2002. During Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic lunar calendar, devout Muslims refrain from all food, drink or sex during daylight hours and focus on devotion and good works. (REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun)

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Kashmiri Muslim women recite from the Koran on the fifth day of the holy month of Ramadan inside the 600-year-old Jamia Masjid mosque in Srinagar on November 11 2002. Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is when devout Muslims refrain from all food, drink or sex during daylight hours and focus on devotion and good works. Muslims make about 14 percent of India's mainly Hindu population. (REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli)

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Indian Muslims leave New Delhi's main Jama Masjid mosque after evening prayers on November 11 2002, during the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic lunar calendar and Muslims refrain from all food, drink and sexual relations during daylight hours. (REUTERS/Kamal Kishore)

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Violating a dusk to dawn Israeli-imposed curfew, Palestinian children play with sparklers in front of their home to celebrate the first days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in this 7 November 2002 photo. Despite some light moments, Ramadan is a somber affair this year in the West Bank, with Israeli military curfews preventing many from visiting relatives for the usually large, festive meals at the end of a day of fasting. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Asian Muslim workers perform the evening prayers after they break their fast at a parking lot in Dubai during the holy month of Ramadan, United Arab Emirates, 10 November 2002. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Asian Muslim workers are about to break their fast at a parking lot in Dubai as some people distribute plates of meat and rice during the holy month of Ramadan, Unired Arab Emirates, 10 November 2002. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Abdul Karim, 31, carries his 10-month-old baby Sharam after his wife was freed from the Women's Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 November 2002. 21 women prisoners were released on Sunday as Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai ordered the release in a goodwill gesture one day after the start the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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An unidentified Afghan man holds hands with his wife who was freed from the Women's Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan 10 November 2002. 21 women prisoners were released Sunday as Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai ordered the release in a goodwill gesture one day after the start the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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An unidentified woman prisoner, carrying her baby, shouts behind the bars in frustration after she was told that she will not be freed from the Women's Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 November 2002. Authorities in Afghanistan's capital released 21 female prisoners on Sunday, one of them by mistake, in an amnesty ordered by President Hamid Karzai at the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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An unidentified woman prisoner, center, cries after she was told that she will not be freed from the Women's Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, 10 November 2002. Authorities in Afghanistan's capital released 21 female prisoners on Sunday, one of them by mistake, in an amnesty ordered by President Hamid Karzai at the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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A crescent moon rises over a mosque's minaret in the Kuwait desert near the town of Subiya during Ramadan, 9 November 2002. Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic calendar, is when devout Muslims refrain from all food, drink or sex during daylight hours and focus on devotion and good works. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

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A shepherd watches the sunset over the Kuwait desert near the town of Subiya, to mark the time to break his fast during Ramadan, 9 November 2002. Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic calendar, is when devout Muslims refrain from all food, drink or sex during daylight hours and focus on devotion and good works. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

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Bottles of a new soft drink named Mecca Cola, with labels in Arabic and English, are seen in Paris, 8 November 2002. Businessman Taoufik Mathlouthi, a director of Radio Mediterranean, launched Mecca Cola which bears the slogan on the label, 'Don't Drink Foolishly, Drink Engaged' as Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan. Ten percent of the profits will go to Palestinian humanitarian causes in aid of children, education, and preserving the heritage. (REUTERS/John Schults)

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A girl participates in Friday prayers at Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, 8 November 2002, the first Friday of the muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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Iraqi women enter the Al-Qailani mosque in order to attend the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan in Baghdad, 8 November 2002. Iraqis are wary of a looming U.S war against their country as the U.N. Security Council is to vote on Friday on a new resolution that calls on Iraq's President Saddam Hussein to disarm or face war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Two Iraqi boys pray in a mosque in Baghdad during the holy month of Ramadan, November 8 2002. Iraqi preachers launched fierce attacks on the United States and Britain at Friday prayers, urging Muslims to rise up in a Jihad against the 'infidels and crusaders' and saying a war on Iraq would be a war on Islam. (Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

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Turkish men pray during the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at Haci Bayram Veli mosque in the capital city of Ankara, 8 November 2002. Turks are now observing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as devotees refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activity from sunrise to sunset. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

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An Iraqi woman cries while praying to God to save Iraq during the first Friday prayer in the holy month of Ramadan at Al-Qailani mosque in Baghdad, 8 November 2002. Iraqis are wary of a potential looming U.S war against their country as the U.N. Security Council is to vote on Friday on a new resolution that calls on Iraq's President Saddam Hussein to disarm or face war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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An Iraqi soldier cries during the first Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Qailani mosque in Baghdad, 8 November 2002. Iraqis are wary of a potential looming U.S war against their country as the U.N. Security Council is to vote on Friday on a new resolution that calls on Iraq's President Saddam Hussein to disarm or face war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A Muslim girl prays in front of the Holy Dome of the Rock mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, November 8 2002. Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is when Muslims refrain from all food, drink or sex during daylight hours. (REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk)

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A child adjusts his father's cap ahead of prayers at Jama Masjid on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, in Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat, November 8 2002. At least 14 people were wounded in clashes between Hindus and Muslims here on Thursday. (REUTERS/Amit Dave)

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A Malay boy joins other elder Muslims in offering a prayer during the fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, 8 November 2002. Muslims in Malaysia are now observing the Ramadan as devotees refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activity from sunrise to sunset. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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President Bush speaks as before the start of Iftaar dinner at the State Dining room of the White House Thursday, 7 November 2002 in Washington. Iftaar begins at sunset during Ramadan, when practicing Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset for a lunar month. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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A Palestinian man and his son mark the Moslem holy month of Ramadan by reading from the Quran at a cemetery for martyrs near the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin 7 November 2002. (AP Photo/Mohamad Balas)

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An Iranian man reads the Quran ahead of the holy month of Ramadan at the mausoleum of Saint Masoumeh in the city of Qom, Iran 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, 6 November 2002. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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An Emirates man looks at the Asian Muslim workers are about to break their fast at the Algurair mosque in Dubai, United Arab Emirates during the first evening of the holy month of Ramadan, 6 November 2002. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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An Afghan man waits for sunrise on a hillside on the first day of Ramadan on the outskirts of Kabul, 6 November 2002. Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. The holiday is marked on a lunar calendar and begins at the first sighting of the crescent moon, which should take place on Wednesday in the United States, according to Khalid Shaukat, a lunar observation consultant for major Islamic groups. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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A Palestinian girl collects flowers as an Israeli army bulldozer destroys the land around her home in the Rafah refugee camp, in the south of the Gaza Strip, November 6 2002, on the first day of the Muslims holy month of Ramadan. During the holy month of Ramadan, observant believers fast from dawn to dusk and businesses and offices reduce opening hours during the day and often open in the evening. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)

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A man walks along the shore of Kuwait City as the sun sets on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, November 6 2002. Muslims across the world began fasting on Wednesday for the holy month of Ramadan, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the possibility of a U.S.-led war against Iraq casting a shadow over celebrations. (REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

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Mirajan, 54, performs the fourth prayer of the day as the suns sets on the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic month of prayer, fasting and alms-giving, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 6 November 2002. Devout Muslims pray to Allah five times a day. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita)

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An Indonesian Muslim woman reads the holy book of Koran at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, 6 November 2002. Muslims around the world are now entering the first day of the holy month of Ramadan where they abstain from eating and drinking from dawn until dusk. The holiday is marked on a lunar calendar and begins at the first sighting of the crescent moon, which should take place on Wednesday in the United States, according to Khalid Shaukat, a lunar observation consultant for major Islamic groups. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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I was about to start a thread on this & you beat me to it. :) Lets keep adding on!!

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*Originally posted by Nadia_H: *
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An Afghan man waits for sunrise on a hillside on the first day of Ramadan on the outskirts of Kabul, 6 November 2002. Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. The holiday is marked on a lunar calendar and begins at the first sighting of the crescent moon, which should take place on Wednesday in the United States, according to Khalid Shaukat, a lunar observation consultant for major Islamic groups. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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Stunning picture.

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nice thread:k:

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Beautiful :k::k:

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Very interesting thread…keep up the good work…:k:

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SubhanAllah

i shivered when i looked at those faces :~).
Those kids and those women got such a noorani chehara Mashallah

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Should be Thread of the Month :k:

thx 4 Sharing Nadia

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thanx for sharing, simply wodner full :)

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aw thank you - AhmadJee, Fret Wizard, Jaan Lewaa, Batameez, Little Human, Nia, Sunny Boy, and CoOoLBreeze :flower1: Really do appreciate the comments.

Ahmad Jee, Sorry:-/ hehe.
i think i saw some more somewhere on another website - i’ll try to dig them out and post them Insha’Allah.

Thanks everyone for the kind comments, really do appreciate it.

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interestin… sum pics r soo beautiful,n the kids mashaAllah :kiss:
thanx for sharing Nadia_H :k: :k:

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intresting!!! :k:

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GREAT work.

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SubkhanAllah fabulously put together superb collection of images...

unique and heart tearing speacially when sadnees gloom is spread cross the sceen where tear of joy and happiness would have been glittring in pretty little masoom eyez.

May Allah strengthen our faith ---Amin

I thank you Nadia sis.