Experiment Phase 3

I took part with the rest in eating a large meal, also called suhur, just before dawn. I had to be as prepared as I could be for the long hours of daylight ahead of me. It wasn't necessary, but for a first timer like me, I saw it as an opportunity I was not willing to pass up. I needed something filling, long-lasting, nutritious and healthy, even if it was not normal for me to feast that early, before the sunrise hit.

So I indulged in a traditional Suhur cuisine...

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And it was like nothing else I had ever had. I would compare it to the equivalent of the American breakfast, except better; it is a meal I would never want to miss or skip. Might I add there were no restrictions aside from the normal limitations of a Muslim's diet. I drank several glasses of water, and had dates, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables, cereal, cheese, and toast, which were all customary to Islam. I also tried a Konafah phyllo pastry, special to the Middle East tradition, which was cheesy, dough-like, and delicious.

Afterwards I had to recite the pre-dawn call to prayer, or azaan-ul-Fajr. 

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