Ummah: Solitude and Connection
…g alone. My local friends were unanimous that I would just love Ramadan in Indonesia. I didn’t. I love Indonesia. I could easily say it is my favorite place in the world (so far). But what my friends enjoyed about Ramadan in their home country was both the public manifestation of the fast: from the muahdan calling “sahour, sahour” (the bahasa pronunciation) at the wee hours of the morning from a loudspeaker, really enough to wake any one over slee…
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