Ramadan: a special time in Petra
admin September 14th, 2007
Ramadan has begun in Jordan and while many tourists would consider this a difficult time to travel in an Islamic country, many of us find something special in the holy atmosphere (well, in many places at least) and in the special buzz in the evening when bread has been broken.
The Black Iris blog quotes a 13th century verse about the daily fast:
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness.
We are lutes.
No more, no less.
If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything…
no music.
If the brain and belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment
a new song
comes out
of
the
fire
