My Culture! - Islam.

My Culture 

Islam

Being a muslim is a really fun thing because of the clothes we wear, the discipline we have and of course the famous food.  There are lots of Muslims countries they are basically everywhere, some countries are Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Iraq, and Pakistan. Some people judge the Muslims about what happened in 9/11 but very, very small of us were part of it.

Firstly, some background information we have only 1 god and only 1 important holy book which is called the Qur'aan. We also have 2 main festivals, 1 of them are called Eid-ul-Fitr which is the festival of Ramadhan (our fasting month) finishes. The other is called Eid-ul-Adha which is the festival of the sacrifice of and animal like a cow, goat or sheep. We also have another celebration which is called Shab-e-baraat, that is our new year. Rather being in January ours is in the middle of July. Us muslims believe that there is an afterlife which in Arabic is called Aakirah. There is Jannat which is heaven and Jahanaam which is hell. We believe that in Jannat is a place of pureness and peace while Jahanaam is a place of fire and snakes.

Secondly, Islam has a lot of rules some of them are that married girls are only allowed to show their eyes and the rest has to be perfectly covered. We have to go to mosque every day after school to learn arabic. Those lessons are 5:00-7:30 and then we can come home and do our homework. We didn't have lessons in Ramadhan because we would get really tiered by the time we would get home late at night. We have daily prayers 5 times a day, there is one at 5:30 in the morning which is called Fajr, Zhur which is at 1:30, Asr which is at 3:00, Magrhib which is at 5:45 and lastly Isha which is at 8:00. Then the cycle starts again.

We have lots of cultural clothes and food. Some of the clothes girls wear are called Abaya's and the boys wear Jubahs which are long dark coloured cloaks. On festivals we wear Salwaar Kameez's which are really fancy and mostly made out of jewels or pretty little sequins.
Here are some photos of the Salwaar kameez's:

This is a really simple colour and design.

This is one of the new designs that have come out.

This is an old design.

And here is the bridal set:

This image is from google images.

This is a Jewelry set.

This is one of the prettiest and heaviest sets

And last but not least our world famous and divine food. Most of the food we eat has to be halal. Halal is when a specific type of meat is cut, the person who's cutting the meat have to recite a Dua'a before slicing its neck off. If it is not halal we are forbbiden allowed to eat it. Here are some of the food we eat:

This is naan bread (roti)

Butter Chicken.

Tomato Chutney

Mango Achaar.

 And this is some of the Eid sweets my mum, my sister (Ashna) and I made:

This is Rasgulla, which is dough in sugar syrup.

This is Murkku, which is dough being fried.

This is Ladoo, its corn flour made into balls.

This is Jalebi.

This is really spicy peas.

This spicy peanuts.

And this is Barfi, which is made is made Besan.

And in conclusion, I have told you lots about my culture like the food we eat, the clothes we wear and our rules and discipline we have that basically covers everything about my culture. I am proud to be a muslim because I dont let all the steriotypes get to me.

By Rubana Hafiz.