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In Thailand, or the Kingdom of Thailand, Ramadan differs from other countries relatively close to it, such as Indonesia and Malaysia. The situation here is different for only five percent of Muslims.
Those who sanctify their wives' cooking in the Middle East will find some Ramadan customs in Thailand strange.
Muslim men in Thailand refrain from eating what their wives have cooked, and give it to someone else to eat, as evidence of love and good neighborliness, and that the giver refrains himself from eating his wife in order to give it to others!
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This custom has changed from just giving and giving, and has become an incentive for men to break their fast outside their homes at collective Ramadan tables.
In areas where Muslims gather in Thailand, drums are beaten to notify the time of breaking the fast for fasting people. What is strange is that the drummer is called “Bilal” in Thailand, named after the companion Bilal bin Rabah, who used to announce the beginning of the time!
Muslims in Thailand - despite being a minority - are keen to build a new mosque in every village from people’s savings during the month of Ramadan, and they build the mosque themselves according to the capabilities of each region and its people.
Source: Al Jazeera