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Boycott Israeli Dates This Ramadan

This Ramadan Boycott Israeli Dates

This Ramadhan , DON'T break your fast with  Israeli Dates

Most of us break our fast with dates, but do you know where it was actually produced? Imagine we break our fasts with dates that were the produce of Illegal Israeli settlements built on land stolen from Palestinians? Israeli produced Medjoul dates are grown in the Jordan Valley within Illegal Israeli settlements. They form a large part of the agriculture from these settlements and they are exported all over the world. Purchasing these dates means that you are actually helping Israeli settlements to continue to exist.


Your local supermarkets also stock these dates with their own packaging such as

  • Sainsburys
  • Tescos
  • Waitrose
  • Marks & Spencers

So please avoid buying dates from them unless you are 100% sure!


Watch the following video trailers from the Friends of Al Aqsa.

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Last Updated on 01 June 2013
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Eight types of Fast

There are Eight types of Fast. They are as follows:

1. Fardh Mu-'Ayyan: Fasting for the whole month of Ramadan once a year.

2. Fardh Ghair Mu-'Ayyan: The duty upon one to keep Qadha of a fast missed in the month of Ramadan with or without a valid reason.

3. Wajib Mu-'Ayaan: To vow to keep a fast one a specific day or date for the pleasure of Allah I, upon the fulfilment of some wish or desire.

4. Wajib Ghair Mu-'Ayaan: To vow or pledge to keep a fast without fixing any day or date, upon the fulfilment of a wish. Those fasts which are kept for breaking one's Qasm (oath) also fall under this catergory.

5. Sunnah: Those fasts which Rasulullah (saw) kept and encouraged others to keep, e.g., fasting on the 9th and 10th of Muharram, and the 9th of Dhil Hijjah, etc.

6. Mustahab: All fasts besides Fardh, Wajid and Sunnah are Mustahab, e.g., fasting on Mondays and Thursdays.

7. Makruh: Fasting ONLY on the 9th or 10th of Muharram of Fasting ONLY on Saturdays.

8. Haram: It is Haram to fast on FIVE days during the year. They are Eidul Fitr, Eidul Adhaa and three days after Eidul Adha.

Last Updated on 01 June 2013

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