The hour before sunset (and after sunrise) is commonly referred to as the Golden Hour amongst photographers. There isn’t any of that popular lighting in these pictures. There isn’t much to do with Iftar in these pictures either. Just pictures made during the Golden Hour before Iftar. From the first trip to the lanes of…
Is there anything else that can be done at Sehri; other than fixing a hurried meal and offering a few quick prayers? Watching TV might be a good idea. Gives some background score to the time you spend bleary eyed in the kitchen trying not to knock over that bowl of cereal while making sure…
First weekend of Ramadan, and it just couldn’t have gone past without an Iftar invitation. That’s the thing with weekends during Ramadan; as soon as the month begins, everyone starts scrambling to invite everyone else before everyone else gets invited by everyone else. Don’t worry if you don’t get invited to the walima of that…
One might think it is a bit early to talk about repentance, considering there is still about a week to go before the ashara for forgiveness begins. All my life, the one thing that I probably would have been as punctual about as anything else that’s needed to see me through each day and night,…
As soon as offering the sunnah prayers after Ish’a was over, the lights in the mosque’s hall were dimmed. Only the ones in the courtyard and gallery stayed lit-up to give about enough light to know where your forehead hit the ground during sajda. Switching off the lights during Taraweeh is a very peculiar habit…
Rains during Ramadan evoke a strange feeling. A feeling which has nothing to do with the irony of being in a downpour while abstaining from drinking water during the day. Unlike the torment of summers or the ease of winters, fasting during rains is strangely fulfilling. Not that the feeling is missed out during other…
In the Urdu speaking part of the world which I belong to, we have something that’s called: ش ق درست “sheen qaaf durust” The Urdu alphabets sheen (ش) and qaaf (ق) have, from since I can remember, held the yardstick by which we have measured social currency. The good thing is that this has nothing…