<story><title>Tell HN: Eid Mubarak</title><text>To the Muslims on HN, Eid Mubarak! And to everyone else, Eid Mubarak!&lt;p&gt;For those who don&amp;#x27;t know. Eid is a day of celebration after the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fasted for 30 days from sunrise to sunset with no food or water. It&amp;#x27;s something 2B people around the world celebrate to today or tomorrow (moon sighting permitted).&lt;p&gt;A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say check it out! After over 20 years of doing it I&amp;#x27;m still learning something new every year, or I should say, unlearning bad habits we&amp;#x27;ve created for ourselves as a society through abundance.&lt;p&gt;Hope you all have a great day!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yousifa</author><text>I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn&amp;#x27;t do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things.&lt;p&gt;As the Quran says: &amp;quot;Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn piety and righteousness&amp;quot; [Quran 2:183]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theobeers</author><text>No smoking all day is a big deal for many Muslims in the Middle East. One year I was living in Cairo during Ramadan, and each day when it got close to the sunset call to prayer (which heralds the end of the fast), it seemed like all the cab drivers had cigarettes in hand, waiting eagerly to light up.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Eid Mubarak</title><text>To the Muslims on HN, Eid Mubarak! And to everyone else, Eid Mubarak!&lt;p&gt;For those who don&amp;#x27;t know. Eid is a day of celebration after the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fasted for 30 days from sunrise to sunset with no food or water. It&amp;#x27;s something 2B people around the world celebrate to today or tomorrow (moon sighting permitted).&lt;p&gt;A note on Ramadan. To those interested in intermittent fasting, longevity, and coming back to a more human experience not drowning in technology, food and consumerism I would say check it out! After over 20 years of doing it I&amp;#x27;m still learning something new every year, or I should say, unlearning bad habits we&amp;#x27;ve created for ourselves as a society through abundance.&lt;p&gt;Hope you all have a great day!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yousifa</author><text>I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. The more important fast is fasting from everything that is bad -- cursing, backbiting, lying, etc -- and from your own desires. All these things are things you shouldn&amp;#x27;t do anyway, but this is a time to refresh commitment to not doing those things.&lt;p&gt;As the Quran says: &amp;quot;Oh, you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn piety and righteousness&amp;quot; [Quran 2:183]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tradertef</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I will add, the fasting from food and water is the easy part. 
Yes, sleep deprivation is the most difficult part. Going to bed late due to invitations, prayers.. getting up early morning to eat breakfast and waking up for work :)</text></comment>