My First Ramadán Experience
TIMESTAMPS
(Minute 00.00.08) Ramadan before sunrise at 6:30am to 7:31am
(Minute 00.18.37) About praying and times
(Minute 00.34.12) Skip the next 27 mins to avoid menstrual period topics
(00.35.02) Cramps and fasting
Final prayers and full day recap
NOTES:
Prayer times for 4/8/24 and my experience notes:
4:45am and 6:15 am thought of prayer, 6:33am missed prayer
5:20am (closer to 4:45pm and wasn’t focused and tried to replace the sunrise prayer)
6:31am (missed by 6:33am, Lord’s Prayer).
First bites of breakfast meal 7:54am chicken ramen with lemon and chilli peppers, 2 fried eggs and 1/2 avocado, water bottles. 1 bullet proof coffee little butter, coconut oil, instant Folgers instant four sigmatic focus coffee with chaga and lionsmane.
12:55pm (noon was distracted being outside the library when timer sounded and was late nearly 7-9 mins)
[3:14pm had water, broke fast, ate pasta due to severity of cramps from 2pm and worsening cramps and flow].
4:32pm (4:02pm) and pod recording.
7:19pm (7:27pm as I was finishing a shower when the alarm sounded and got my food ready before prayer, Lord’s Prayer and 23rd Psalm).
8:30pm (9:05pm read some of Psalm 78 at random and said the Shema).
Quote from educational website (https://myislam.org/are-5-daily-prayers-in-the-quran/)
“IS IT 3 OR 5 PRAYERS ACCORDING TO QURAN?
In the Quran, there’s is no direct naming of the five prayers. It does not say pray Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha salah.
Nowhere in the Quran does it say this explicitly.
The disagreement between the two sides of 3 prayers or 5 are due to different interpretation of the ayats presented above.
From Surah Nur it says “before the dawn prayer and when you put aside your clothing [for rest] at noon and after the night prayer.” Some Shiites would read this and interpret 3 daily prayers. But the Sunni’s would argue no, that’s not what the ayah is referring to as it is just referring to three distinct time periods.
Dawn – Fajr
Noon – Zuhr and Asr
Night – Maghrib and Isha.”
