Honestly, not even me and Q could eat all that.
This has surely got to be from the final signs? Or am I being paranoid?
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah…
April 29, 2007
April 29, 2007
Honestly, not even me and Q could eat all that.
This has surely got to be from the final signs? Or am I being paranoid?
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah…
April 29, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Gosh what is it? Some sort of cheese bake?
April 29, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Biriyaani.
A friend of mine thought it was a dinosaur excavating site…eewww
April 29, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Salams, come on some husnal dhan, maybe they are waiting for others to arrive and eat.
April 29, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Astaghfirullah al-`Adheem!
This is depressing.
April 29, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Subhan’Allaah! That’s scary!
April 29, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Masha’ Allah, even the walls look like they’re made from waffles.
April 29, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Hahaha!
Actually, thinking about it and waffles and biryani and all the rest of it, I’m still not sure whether that’s a picture of heaven…or hell…
April 29, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Omg !!
Wow!
April 29, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Eurgh.
Puts you off Biryaani for… life?
April 29, 2007 at 9:56 pm
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i dont think u’ll find one of these in a while
April 29, 2007 at 10:02 pm
err…it looks like a massive sand pit for children with bits of meat sticking out here and there.
April 29, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Sorry folks but it makes me want to puke !!
There is so much poverty in the Arab World; what on Earth are they doing ?!??
This gives the word ‘gluttony’ a new definition !
April 29, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Astagfirullah I think that has put me off Biryani for life…
and like the brother has said there is so much poverty right on their doorstep yet they choose to eat like this.
Maybe.. I pray that there is more to this picture and that every last drop of it goes to feed the Miskeen Inshallah
Only Allah knows whats in our hearts and knows our intentions.
April 30, 2007 at 7:34 am
Btw, how would one reach for food in the middle of the plate or whatever that thing is?
April 30, 2007 at 8:36 am
One would reach the middle with a rake (aka large fork)…
SubhanAllah, in the time of the Prophet (SAW) a little would go a long way….
Allah knows best how many people benefitted from this…
Make excuses for um init…they still Muslims… right?
April 30, 2007 at 10:11 am
I know it looks like a tough task but hey I’m all for trying.
Where there’s a will and all that ……….
Yeah …………………!!!
April 30, 2007 at 11:20 am
You could probably turn this into a caption competition.
This would be my entry:
“National Geographic baits illusive Bedouin-Pygmy tribe into camera view with a small plate of Biryani.”
April 30, 2007 at 11:38 am
They feast in this banquet as the aggressors sit round the table to feast on the Ummah. If this food is not going to the poor then they have done the Ummah no favours but shown their apathy.
April 30, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are waiting for 100s more people to join them in their feast. Me, I’m just worried about the hygiene aspect of it…
April 30, 2007 at 7:07 pm
mmm…waffles
April 30, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Saabirah,
I understand what you’re saying; but even if they are waiting for 100s as you put it; they should eat in a noble manner and not portray themselves as having no etiquette.
And yes, the hygiene factor is an issue. It’s a health hazard too! I wouldn’t be surprised if they found a chef in the centre of it – drowned inside his own recipe or something?? Not a nice filling is it?
Sorry, not very funny, but…there you go…food for thought…
April 30, 2007 at 10:20 pm
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April 30, 2007 at 10:41 pm
subhanallah.. thats just pure madness! At first when i saw it, it looked like dead people sticking out of the sand..! LOL the walls do look like waffles. I spotted the cans of pepsi… suprised they were’nt drinking from tanks filled with pepsi!
April 30, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Hygeine? Ettiquettes? aren’t they things that we know nothing about? aren’t they things most muslims in the west are missing?
Adab of Eating…. i’m sure collective eating is a sunnah isn’t it?
AE, care to give us nasiha?
April 30, 2007 at 11:51 pm
PS: that don’t look like no chicken biriyani….im sure i see a lambs head there on top…
May 1, 2007 at 8:16 am
stranger, of course collective eating is Sunnah…
I also think it’s unfair to criticise all the Muslims in the west as there are some that are very noble, un-extravagant and decent.
When we observe the Sunnah we must observe the etiquette of the Prophet (saw) and reflect on the nobility of his life. It is true that eating together is Sunnah, but is it still Sunnah if we exaggerate it? Are we not then taking the Sunnah out of context and creating innovation in Islam ???
When I get the opportunity, I will ask my ustaad about this, and clarify this point.
May 1, 2007 at 9:47 am
As-salamu ‘alaykum
On a serious note, I suppose it is within the realms of possibility that someone decided to cook a huge amount of food for an entire tribe and decided that it would be easier and cheaper to do it in this one huge dish (which I also think it was cooked in aswell with meat added to it later).
I’m struggling aren’t I? Husn’l-dhann never was easy.
From a Sunnah perspective, the issues relevant here are that there are as many people eating at the same time (or less as long as it is a group), for everyone to be eating with their right hand, for one to eat only from what is in front of them, that bones etc are disposed of away from the main food and that there be no wastage.
Here, one wonders how hygiene and cleanliness can be maintained using a big fork to rake the food to the sides again etc.
All in all, I think I might just say Allah knows best about this picture, intentions and all the rest of it.
PS: those are almost certainly swathes of camel meat and mutton in the rice there, and probably all cooked by some miskeen apna because as we all know, Arabs can’t cook biryani to save their lives…
May 1, 2007 at 11:14 am
THATS SOOOO TRUE!
best biriyani i’ve ever had was in sharjah, cooked by a desi!
May 1, 2007 at 6:11 pm
it looks doctored to me.
May 1, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I missed out on that
hai meri kismaat
May 2, 2007 at 7:47 am
Traveller Says:
May 1st, 2007 at 6:11 pm
it looks doctored to me.
Almost certainly. The hands at the back and agal give it away.
May 2, 2007 at 11:31 am
where I am originally from… when there is a death, and for example its a death of an important person like a tribe leader or a shaykh of a tribe they do something kinda like this, because its our custom to feed the ppl that attend the janaazah or its also called the 3 day `azza, my grandfather had 30 thousand ppl attend his `azza/janaza(masha’Allaah) and we usually provide meals in huge trays(each feed about 15 ppl) and sometimes we dish out about 1000 trays, perhaps this was easier for the men and they filled that up, wallaahu `alam it doesn’t look like biryaani its probably Kabsa (as they look like they are from Saudi) and its traditional dish, yeap it does look a bit strange though..
We have prohibited from filling the stomach excessively, some people live to eat while others eat to live, of course its better to be of the latter
المسلمة
May 2, 2007 at 11:33 am
where I am originally from… when there is a death, and for example its a death of an important person like a tribe leader or a shaykh of a tribe they do something kinda like this, because its our custom to feed the ppl that attend the janaazah or its also called the 3 day `azza, my grandfather had 30 thousand ppl attend his `azza/janaza (masha’Allaah) and we usually provide meals in huge trays(each feed about 15 ppl) and sometimes we dish out about 1000 trays, perhaps this was easier for the men and they filled that up, wallaahu `alam it doesn’t look like biryaani its probably Kabsa (as they look like they are from Saudi) and its traditional dish, yeap it does look a bit strange though..
We have prohibited from filling the stomach excessively, some people live to eat while others eat to live, of course its better to be of the latter
المسلمة
May 2, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Ahhhh one of Abu Eesa’s articulate parties……. when’s the next one bro?
May 2, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Why miskeen Kifayatullah? Because he’s Longsight’s “Articulate” champion? Not.
I reckon new teams will be chosen after the footie season ends and we work out who’s here and not over the summer, although it is getting a bit boring beating the dentists all the time…
May 3, 2007 at 10:20 pm
La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illah Billah, they could literally take a bath inside the plate. But seriously this is some major ‘israaf’!
May 5, 2007 at 1:52 am
There might have been another 200 people taking part in the mega feast for all we know. What is it with Muslims being so overly melodramatic these days!
May 5, 2007 at 7:12 pm
‘posting as kifayatullah’ u what?! Where did he come from?
Thats the problem with not being able to sign in with login names like before, more comments but more deception too.
Anyways, for the record Taboo is much better and hopefully less likely to go in to the early hours. ..
May 6, 2007 at 3:29 pm
That picture reminds me of a dish my Saudi friends sent to us once
It was rice at the bottom and one top they place a lamb which has been cooked as a whole (not in pieces)
they put it on this huge circular dish/tray and it took 2 grown men to carry it in
at the time I thought that was a lot, but after seeing this picture I was totally wrong
May 7, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Disturbing.
Eek!
Waitaminute… is that *cheese* on top???
May 7, 2007 at 10:38 pm
In bengali tradition when somebody marries they have a big circular dish which will have a chicken in the middleand have pilau all over ( as though to hide the chicken) then everybody dives in for the chicken. Recently when my cousin got married they had a whole lamb wit pilau but the dish wasnt as big as this one in the pic. subhanallah…. jus krazy!
May 9, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I hope the meat is HMC approved…
September 19, 2007 at 11:45 am
Msybe it was iftari for the whole of al-hejaz?