Ko te marama tapu rawa atu i roto i te ahurea Ihirama
Ko Ramadāna te marama tapu rawa atu i roto i te ahurea Ihirama, i te marama tapu o Ramadāna, ka whakapakari ake ngā Mahometa i ngā whanaungatanga ki a Allah mā te nohopuku, ngā mahi atawhai, me te inoi.
Ko Ramadāna te marama tuaiwa o te maramataka Ihirama, engari ka tīmata a Ramadāna i tētahi wā rerekē i ia tau nā te mea e whai ana te maramataka Ihirama i ngā āhua o te marama, nō reira, ina puta te marama hou, ko te tohu tēnei o te rā tuatahi o Ramadāna. E matapaetia ana ka tīmata a Ramadāna i tēnei tau i te 23 o Poutū-te-rangi, ā, ka mutu i te 21 o Paenga-whāwhā me ngā whakanuinga o te Eid al-Fitr.
Te Pūtake o te Ramadan
Ko Ramadan, tētahi o ngā marama o te maramataka Ihirama, i roto anō hoki i ngā maramataka o ngā Arapi onamata. Ko te ingoa o Ramadan i ahu mai i te pūtake Arapi "ar-ramad," ko tōna tikanga he werawera. E whakapono ana ngā Mahometa i te tau 610 AD, i puta te anahera a Kapariera ki a Poropiti Muhammad, ā, i whakakitea ki a ia te Quran, te pukapuka tapu Ihirama. Ko taua whakakitenga, ko Laylat Al Qadar—te "Pō o te Mana" rānei—e whakaponohia ana i puta i te wā o Ramadan. Ka nohopuku ngā Mahometa i taua marama hei whakanui i te whakakitenga mai o te Quran.
Te whakanui i te Ramadan
I te wā o Ramadan, ko te whāinga a ngā Mahometa he whakatutuki i te oranga wairua me te whakatū hononga kaha ake ki a Allah. Ka mahia tēnei e rātou mā te inoi me te whakahua i te Koran, me te mahi i ā rātou mahi kia kore e whai whakaaro ki a rātou anō, kia tapu hoki, kia matara atu i ngā kōrero pakiwaitara, i ngā kōrero teka, i ngā pakanga.
Otinga:
I roto i te marama, he mea tika kia nohopuku ngā Mahometa katoa i waenganui i te putanga mai o te rā me te tōnga o te rā, engari mō te hunga mate, te hunga hāpu, te hunga haereere, te hunga kaumātua, te hunga e pāngia ana e te paheketanga. Ka taea te whakaea ngā rā i ngaro i te nohopuku puta noa i te tau, i te wā kotahi, i te rā kotahi rānei.
Kai me te Wā:
He tino whakaritenga te roa o te nohopuku i roto i te marama, engari he wāhi anō hoki mō ngā Mahometa ki te huihui me ētahi atu o te hapori, ki te wawahi i tā rātou nohopuku ngātahi. Ko te parakuihi i mua i te ata ka tū i te 4:00 i te ata i mua i te karakia tuatahi o te rā. Ka taea te tīmata i te tina o te ahiahi, te iftar, ina oti te karakia o te tōnga o te rā, te Maghreb—i te nuinga o te wā i te 7:30. Nā te mea i whati te nohopuku a te Poropiti Muhammad me te tāte me te karāhe wai, ka kai ngā Mahometa i ngā tāte i te iftar. He kai matua o te Middle East, he nui ngā matūkai o ngā tāte, he ngāwari ki te nakunaku, ā, ka hoatu he huka ki te tinana i muri i te rā roa o te nohopuku.
Eid al-Fitr:
I muri i te rā whakamutunga o Ramadan, ka whakanuia e ngā Mahometa tōna mutunga ki te Eid al-Fitr—te "hakari o te whati i te nohopuku"—ka tīmata me ngā karakia ā-iwi i te atatu. I roto i ēnei rā e toru o ngā hakari, ka huihui ngā kaiuru ki te inoi, ki te kai, ki te whakawhitiwhiti koha, me te mihi ki ngā whanaunga kua mate. Ka manaakihia hoki e ētahi tāone ngā karaniwha me ngā huihuinga karakia nui.
Ngā whenua e whai wāhi ana
Ngā Whenua Arapi katoa (22): Āhia: Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain. Āwherika: Ihipa, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Somalia, Djibouti.
Ngā Whenua Ehara i te Arapi: Āwherika ki te Hauāuru: Henekara, Gambia, Kini, Sierra Leone, Mali, Niger me Nigeria. Āwherika Waenganui: Chad. Whenua moutere i te Tonga o Āwherika: Comoros.
Ūropi: Bosnia me Herzegovina me Albania.
Āhia ki te Hauāuru: Turkey, Azerbaijan, Īrāna me Afghanistan.
E rima ngā whenua o Āhia Waenganui: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.
Āhia ki te Tonga: Pakitāne, Bangladesh me Maldives.
Āhia ki te Tonga-mā-rāwhiti: Initonīhia, Mareia me Brunei. E 48 ngā whenua katoa, kei te taha hauauru o Āhia me te raki o Āwherika (e hono tahi ana ngā Whenua Arapi, Āwherika ki te Hauāuru me te Waenganui, Āhia ki te Waenganui me te Hauāuru me Pakitāne). Tata ki te haurua noa iho o te taupori o Repanona, Chad, Nigeria, Bosnia me Herzegovina me Mareia e whakaae ana ki te Ihirama.
Hei whakamutunga
Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa e hoa mā
Ramadan Mubarak
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Wā tuku: Maehe-24-2023

