Essa pessoa vai ser confrontado com duas grandes calamidades no mundo (Duniya):
his Duas will not be accepted and
he will become disgraced and insulted even though he may be a millionaire or the King of his time .
segunda-feira, 6 de junho de 2011
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Essa pessoa vai ser confrontado com duas grandes calamidades no mundo (Duniya):
his Duas will not be accepted and
he will become disgraced and insulted even though he may be a millionaire or the King of his time .
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East meets West in Colonial Heights
ResponderExcluirCOLONIAL HEIGHTS - If the romance of the desert has ever called you, if "In a Persian Market" ever stirred your wanderlust, if Casablanca or Algiers or Timbuktu or any other faraway places with strange-sounding names have been calling you, the exotic East is now no farther away than Colonial Heights. Inside Ramallah Halal Market at 583 Southpark Blvd., you'll find all the things you might expect to see in a Middle Eastern marketplace.
The small but tidy and well-stocked store features a selection of products from cold pomegranate juice to dried red lentils to jars of oil, olives and preserves, and syrups made from apricots, dates, figs and more. Sacks of basmati and other kinds of rice share space with sesame seeds and several varieties of wheat flour, boxes of pilaf mixes and bags of chick peas and other dried beans.
There are spices and seasonings of all kinds, sauces and relishes, loose and bagged tea, and Turkish coffee along with the tools for brewing it. For snacking there are cookies, whole honeycombs, and bags of squash, pumpkin and watermelon seeds. There's also a generous helping of tempting desserts including halvah, baklava and Turkish delight.
And speaking of strange-sounding names: couscous, hummus, falafel, tahini and the very weird-sounding "Peeled Foul," which turns out to be peeled fava beans.
The store was opened about two months ago by the father-and-son team of Kaseem and Rizak Hamill, who will be happy to advise customers about any unfamiliar items. They named it for their hometown in the Palestinian West Bank.
The store's products are all "halal," which means "lawful" in Arabic. The term refers to food that is free of any ingredients that are forbidden to Muslims, which include pork and pork products, animals that have not been slaughtered according to prescribed practices, alcohol, and birds of prey and other carnivorous animals.
The Hamills have lived in Hopewell for about two years and in New York for about 15 years before that, Rizak explained. Up north, he said, "there are a lot of that type of market," but Middle Eastern cuisine and especially halal food is hard to find in the Tri-Cities, "so we decided to open one here."
The store also features something else that's scarce in the Tri-Cities: an honest-to-goodness butcher shop. In addition to the standard fare of beef, chicken and veal, the market offers a selection of cuts of lamb and goat. (But no pork, of course.)
For meats to be halal, the animals must be slaughtered according to "dhabiha," a method intended to cause the animal to lose consciousness as soon as possible and so to suffer the least possible pain.
Hamill said the butcher counter has been "busy," and the market overall is steadily attracting customers despite being so new.
"We're making progress little by little," he said.