Curtin Muslim Students Association<\/a><\/strong> estimates 3500 Islamic students attend the University, and Mr Ibrahim said many people in the wider community had volunteered to cook.<\/p>\n“All of the food is generously donated by the wider community and feeding 500 people takes considerable finance and logistics,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Arabic, Indonesian, and Bosnian families contribute food, so it’s quite a multicultural experience.”<\/p>\n
Mr Ibrahim said one aspect of Ramadan was to raise awareness of the plight of other people.<\/p>\n
“When Ramadan comes and you feel that twinge of hunger, you focus on other people’s needs rather than just your wants,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Ramadan is simply to reassess our wants in comparison to the needs of others – and to forego some of the luxuries that we have in order to help others.<\/p>\n
“For instance, you find a lot of people will donate money to charities and to feed the students on campus.”<\/p>\n
Mr Ibrahim said Ramadan also promoted self-control.<\/p>\n
“You’ll find that with a lot of students whose studies are a little bit lagging it is an opportunity to refocus,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Because they have more free time with fasting, and not as much ‘coffee time’, they become much, much more productive.<\/p>\n
“Students who smoke are not allowed to smoke during the day, so it’s a detox for them.”<\/p>\n
Mr Ibrahim said that non-Muslims would usually be oblivious to the fact an Islamic person was not eating or drinking from sunrise to sundown.<\/p>\n
“A student could walk right by you, and you wouldn’t know they were fasting,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Part of fasting is that you’re not to limit your normal day-to-day activity simply because you’re abstaining from food or drink.”<\/p>\n
However, final-year Engineering student, and Curtin Muslim Students Association\u00a0member, Muzzammil Tarin said the start of Ramadan did have its challenges.<\/p>\n
“The first few days when you start fasting, you really feel it but you soon get used to it and it’s back to routine,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Tarin encouraged Muslims and non-Muslims alike to attend the nightly fast break.<\/p>\n
“Because of the diverse background of Curtin itself, we do get a multicultural turnout during the fast,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You see people from all different backgrounds and all different faculties.<\/p>\n
“Some people just drop in to ask: ‘what’s happening here?”<\/p>\n
The Mushalla is located at the south of Curtin’s Bentley campus in Building 541.<\/p>\n
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