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Ramazan davulcusu´
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04 Sep 2008 Thu 04:39 pm |
Imagine being awakened in your warm bed at 3:30 a.m. to the incessant pounding of drums and knowing that this is what you will hear for an entire month. For many Muslim believers in Turkey, there is a tradition of hearing the Ramazan davulcusu´, the drummers who alert people that it is time for the predawn meal during Ramazan by playing his drum in the streets. Despite setting off car alarms and disturbing many people who do not eat the predawn meal, the drum is a symbol of Ramazan for numerous residents across the Middle East: It tells them the holy month for Muslims is here.
Restaurants are less busy at lunch, and even Turkish tea is relegated to the back burner. The smoke-free air of the coffeehouses reveals they are still full of men, even if the teaspoons have gone silently pious. Some eateries may cover their windows with curtains so as not to distract those fasting by the sight of others eating, and most street vendors close up shop from dawn to dusk.
If at all possible, avoid traveling one hour before sunset, and never try to obtain a cab for at least one hour afterwards. If you are on the street during the hour before sunset, you become a mere obstacle between a fasting Muslim and a meal at home. Traffic is unbearable from 6-7 p.m. every day as people try to get home to break their fast, and if pedestrians weren’t already at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to the right-of-way in the streets, you have suddenly become the greatest scum on earth simply by walking out into the road while cars wait at a red light beside you – if they wait that is. Traffic laws here seem to be mere suggestions, not actual rules to obey, and during Ramazan these “suggestions” are almost laughable and followed less than half the time. http://ceboone.blogspot.com/2007/09/ho-geldiniz-ramazan-welcome-ramadan.html
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04 Sep 2008 Thu 05:48 pm |
Imagine being awakened in your warm bed at 3:30 a.m. to the incessant pounding of drums and knowing that this is what you will hear for an entire month
ha ha yes I have been hearing this
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04 Sep 2008 Thu 11:57 pm |
Imagine being awakened in your warm bed at 3:30 a.m. to the incessant pounding of drums and knowing that this is what you will hear for an entire month. For many Muslim believers in Turkey, there is a tradition of hearing the Ramazan davulcusu´, the drummers who alert people that it is time for the predawn meal during Ramazan by playing his drum in the streets. Despite setting off car alarms and disturbing many people who do not eat the predawn meal, the drum is a symbol of Ramazan for numerous residents across the Middle East: It tells them the holy month for Muslims is here.
Here ´Egypt´,people usually sleep at late houre so they dont usually wake us ´me ´ ,davulcular ´drummers´ are not common as they used to be in the past,so once we hear them,we run to watch them from the windows
Some people even make deal with them,to call their sons/daughters names
Kids feel happy when they hear them calling their names
They have 3 sentences to say with a lovely rhythm using the drum
´wake up sleepy one´´ ´´admit that no one but The Perpetual ´´ ´´Ramadan Karim´
Then he says, wake up Ali,for example,and parents wake up the kid saying,heyy wake up,look,he is calling you.
Kids be happy and wait for Ramadan from the year to the next year.
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05 Sep 2008 Fri 01:04 am |
I enjoyed reading your comments, Canli. Thanks for sharing!!
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05 Sep 2008 Fri 02:35 am |
Here ´Egypt´,people usually sleep at late houre so they dont usually wake us ´me ´ ,davulcular ´drummers´ are not common as they used to be in the past,so once we hear them,we run to watch them from the windows
Some people even make deal with them,to call their sons/daughters names
Kids feel happy when they hear them calling their names
They have 3 sentences to say with a lovely rhythm using the drum
´wake up sleepy one´´ ´´admit that no one but The Perpetual ´´ ´´Ramadan Karim´
Then he says, wake up Ali,for example,and parents wake up the kid saying,heyy wake up,look,he is calling you.
Kids be happy and wait for Ramadan from the year to the next year.
Awwwww!!! I wish somebody could do that to me!!! but i sleep at like 5 am anyway lol, and I NEVER saw one of those guys, my mom just tells me about them, lol
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05 Sep 2008 Fri 02:40 am |
Awwwww!!! I wish somebody could do that to me!!! but i sleep at like 5 am anyway lol, and I NEVER saw one of those guys, my mom just tells me about them, lol
Hee,if you are not busy watching those 42 something series,then you might hear him lol
Specially the third part of Ramadan,when Eid is close,so they knock your doors at the Eid morning,saying Eid Mübarek...and of course you should understand what does this mean
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05 Sep 2008 Fri 02:47 am |
Hee,if you are not busy watching those 42 something series,then you might hear him lol
Specially the third part of Ramadan,when Eid is close,so they knock your doors at the Eid morning,saying Eid Mübarek...and of course you should understand what does this mean
I knoooooow!!!!There are so many soaps!!! Every time i change the channel i find one,and i gte soooo mixed up, its like didnt this happen blah blah blah, then my mom´s like no that was in the other one, its like, why in the world is 1 actor in 4 soaps?!?!?! But im always so bored so they kinda fill my day up, lol. And i really wanna hear that guy! I dont think he comes by our house.....
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