Towards a Ramzaan Sunset

........actually fasting is simply another silly ritual that affirms your membership in the herd ........ as much as we lie to our kids, it has nothing to do with selflessness, generosity, piety, godliness or clean underwear............. you can`t even loose weight if, like most people, you gorge yourself on iftaris ......... for cultural muslims it is a pain in the keester because it lasts a whole month .... eid and basant are a lot of fun because you can really party for a day ..... but who ever heard of partying for a whole month ...... unless, ofcourse, you are turned on by praying twenty taraweehs with a crowd of sleepy men suffering from flautulence and bad breath ..............

.............like everything else, we muslims had to out-do everyone else when it comes to religious lunacy (other than gandhi ji who made a spectacle out of himself by running around naked and sleeping with young relatives )..........it started with the crazy idea of praying five times a day which, in my opinion, is rather execessive - god needs attention and affection, but this borders on narcissm .............then we came to the fasting thing ..... jews fast one day a year and most good christians will give up something they absolutely love for lent - like tonic in their gin or strawberry topping on their cheese cake......but we muslims had to out do these munafiqs- we were going to starve ourself for the whole month from sunrise to sunset !....... and what about members of the herd who live in finland and norway ............. what a silly idea!............ i am sure politically corect people are offended by this ......... even george w has bought into this silliness and threw an iftaar party at the white house - panderer!......... i think it is time we reduced fasting to the last three or four days of ramzan - starting on the night of power .........i can go for that - a kind of run-up to eid ......... makes a lot of sense to me ......... it is silly having to give up a whole month out of twelve to a god who doesn`t seem to be doing a very good job of running this world......... three days should be enough ............and why can`t we reduce namaz to a once a week affair instead of this five a day nonsense ? ............. just wondering ..........

If you are fasting from sunrise to sunset, then splurging on food/feast after sunset, then where is the essence of fasting? All you have done is
shift day time food binge to night time food binge or replace day with night.

The essence of fasting, even for internal phy purification ought to be
a full day and a full night--give it 24 hours fast.

Right?

rozaiba: I was passing by the local McDonalds and visualized the scene of a line of rickshaws lined up at the drive-thru and drivers trying to overtake other rickshaws all the way to order stand. But then, as usual, I let my thoughts fly wild and imagined Patna, Kolcata and Dacca with leg-powered rickshaws lined up in the Drive-Thru.....Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari ordering BigMac, fries, large coke and qawam laced paan followed by Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna ordering large coke and large pepsi because.....large coke jo pyasa rakhe tau large pepsi pyas bujhaye.
Somewhere in Karachi, SaminaW playing dholki at Drive-thru while ordering, `le jaiNge, le jaiNge, dilwale BigMac, medium fries and coke le jayeNge` followed by an English pass-Urdu ??? ordering cheese burger with extra cheese, large orders of fries with cheese and a cheesy milk shake.
I hope one day two brides, SaminaW and Q-ain sitting in man-carrying dolis at McDonalds Drive-Thru ordering, `doli chaRdheyaN maryaN Heer cheekaN, mainu BigMac, large fries le de babla le de vay.......`
Stay tuned for Musharraf, Jamali, Chaudhry Shujaat, BB and NS lining up to order BigMac, fires and soda, McDonalds Drive-Thru by River Hugli with Meena Kumari and Bharat Bhushan ordering from the boat and of course scene from McDonalds Drive-Thru by the Ganges at Banaras......and Farangi_Kush ordering 73 BigMacs, 73 large fries and 73 large cokes at McDonalds Drive-Thru in heaven, one for himself and 72 for your know who....
Do you think, if Deepa Mehta would be interested in this comic script?
Tidbit #15: I am glad to make you laugh and saw the space between two front teeth. Oh well, I can hold a nice Cuban cigar in the space between my two front removable teeth. Adaab arz hae!

besides the iftari, the best thing about ramzan is that you get off work at 3:00 pm for one whole month.

mcd`s in pak is at least edible. couple of years ago, pizza hut in clifton had an all you can eat deal for rs. 250. they had to close their doors one hour before iftari because of the turnout.

on an other matter, did the great khan get a hair transplant after his cricket career was over?

rozedar roziaba -- great piece -- but but Iftaar with Big Mac? -- is there something special about P Mac -- that we in US don`t know... Rozaa and then Mac -- we Muslims ARE Masochists:-)

Chuk:

Ramzaan has become a month long party – and no one promotes it as a festive time as much as the restaurants of Lahore. You describe the iftari at home scene really well. It’s hard not to keep a roza if for NO other reason then that one will get to miss that whole collective mood of anticipation and waiting to finally submerge oneself with food. Anyway, though home cooking is unbeatable, if you’re ever stuck far away from home, go to Copper Kettle and have an iftari for Rs. 200 (this is last year’s promotion price). Great selection of food. me and my friends are convinced CK is losing money with that deal.


FJ:
You are right. There should be a transitional statement between the wagon ride and class. Conductors trying to grab unwilling passengers are fun to watch.


Ras:

The Great Khan is 50 but still RISING. `Chalay chalo keh voh manzil abhi nahin aaee!`


Urstruly:
Thanks for the compliment. I could use an A+ or two in some of these MBA courses. I could seriously use them.

SameerJB:
Were you drunk when you wrote that post?

No not Nosheen or Saima. I am gu gu ga ga over another churrail.


That play on Ol Man Bala’s poem was funny. Soaz-o-saaz…:)


Semipreciousme:
Ain’t that true? The first bite convinces.

Hamidm2:

Yes, it is possible to take rickshaw’s through McDonalds. In fact, I’ve done it a number of times now. And what’s more, I’ve come to know that girls living in hostels at medical colleges do it all the time.

As for those jamatiyay, well I didn’t want to beat them up for the sawab after I calculated that I will earn more sawaab if I remain alive after a week and have the chance to do some good.

It’s true. Some sub-saharan African tribal folks intentionally try to widen the gap between the upper two front teeth. The wider the gap, the stronger the sexual prowess.

The guys from arifwala wanted to go back to arifwala and open up another one of the run of the mill ‘institutions’ claiming to teach IT but which are really excellent money generating ventures. I tell you man, the jamatiyay are very proeminent in this IT field. There is no philosophical type hinderance to accepting the structural formats of technology I guess.... and there is seemingly no hinderance that people face (jamatiyay or not) to opening up money machines (IT instittues) that teach nothing.

Not only are there ramzaan specials for food, but these IT places also have `ramzaan specials`. Last year, Fatimah Jinnah Inst. of Tech (right across from FJ medical college) was offering the DBA track for 6000 rupees. However, if you enrolled during Ramzaan, you get the Ramzaan special with which you learn the entire track for only 1000 rs!!! promotion lasts only till end of ramzaan. the unique location of being right across from girls medical college is an added incentive.

Shah:
I tell you man, McD once a week can be amazing.

Tehsin abbasi, nooralain, Ashok:
Come on, there was plenty in the story to suggest I am a man. But as for the name Tehsin, I know males and females with that name. what are you?

sameerJB:

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tehsin...did you somehow miss the point that the narrator of this story is a man? or did i?!

``I wonder if she’ll go out with me``

Are you serious - looking for some lesbo action. We definitely are coming out of the closet, arent we. Very interesting!

...... good ..... enjoyed it very much ....... can you really take a rikshaw through mcdonald`s ? .......... do you know that your roza sawab could have been doubled by beating the crap out of the jamatiyas from arifwala? ......... and is it true about girls with a gap between their front teeth? ......... and what happened to nosheen ?........ did you go back to see saima?........ did the guys from arifwala end up as shaheeds in kashmir?............ is a quarter-pounder halal for iftari?

............ hope you will answer all these questions in the next episode.......thanks for the rickshaw ride

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...nice...can def. relate to the last line...:)

rozaiba: You like Nosheen, don`t you? Do you know what is. ``roza kharab karna``? Here you are sitting next to Nosheen, roza makroohing! Another similar word is moza; paoN ka moza is socks, kamar ka moza is underwear and ser ka moza is topi. Roza and moza can go together in Urdu poetry:
Ya rab dil-e-muslim ko woh zinda tamanna de
jo roza kharab ker de, aur moza aftaar ker de
And what was that junoon album:
soz-O-saaz-O-dard-O-gham-O-sehri-O-aftaari-e-roza
playboy-O-penthouse-O-teen pinhaN androon-e-moza
Good job, rozaiba. The poetry is a joke.