The holy month of Ramadan is all about spreading kindness and love and about making good deeds and helping each other.
With all this positive energy that we have from this month, the past few days, we have seen two events that went extremely viral on all social media platforms. These two events brought out the best in people as almost everyone had very positive comments about them and we were able to see the humane and loving side of people.
The two trending topics are, the cat that climbed on the imam’s shoulder while he was praying and the other one is the Iftar that was held in El-Matareya.
Social Media Trend #1: A Cat Climbs The Imam’s Shoulder
In the last couple of days, a video went viral on all social media platforms, which shows an Imam praying while a cat climbs onto his shoulder and started cuddling him; The Imam gently petted the cat while kept on praying without any disturbance.
Moment cat jumps on imam leading Ramadan prayershttps://t.co/HnTXeXBNbr pic.twitter.com/RHS4rZFWGd
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 5, 2023
The video was published by BBC News on its official Twitter account and it received 3.6 million views, 4,491 Retweets and Quoted Retweets, and 25.8K likes.
Very Positive Reactions From People
The video received a very positive reaction as people praised the Imam for keeping the prayer and saw the situation as pure kindness. People also kept sharing how Islam is telling us to be kind to everyone and every creature, some even translated what was the Imam reciting.
Cat jumps on Imam during qiyam (taraweeh) prayers and he behaves exactly like any imam Insha’Allah would.#Ramadan pic.twitter.com/QHGXSgiZgK
— Alateeqi العتيقي (@BinImad) April 4, 2023
Wholesome moment of a cat jumping on the imam during tarawih prayer 😅
— عبد (@ABroNextDoor) April 5, 2023
Cat jumped on imam during Tarawih, and he handled it perfectly. 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZUZUcJilPi
— • (@Alhamdhulillaah) April 5, 2023
CNN channel publishes on its Instagram a video of the Algerian Imam Walid Mahsas and the cute Cat 😍
Non Muslims comments were so nice,it reflects a clear change on what people think about Islam and Muslims now Alhamdulilah! pic.twitter.com/j5oz4HyNiS
— Dan Adam int'l🇳🇬 (@NasirDanAdam) April 7, 2023
A cat jumped on Imam during Salah 😍🤍🤍 pic.twitter.com/HjBIA7EK7R
— القرآن (@Quranconnect_) April 5, 2023
Social Media Trend #2: The Iconic Matareya Iftar
Last Wednesday a huge Iftar celebration was held in an area called “Ezbet Hamada in El-Matareya” and around 5K people were attending. The event went so viral that every news platform and everyone on social media talked about it.
This is not the first time for people in el Matareya to have this Iftar, in fact, this has been going on since 2012.
#رمضان في #مصر حاجة تانية.. أكبر مائدة إفطار جماعي لأهالي #المطرية تملأ شوارعها بهجة #إفطار_المطرية #شاهد_سكاي pic.twitter.com/yODFQswz9w
— سكاي نيوز عربية (@skynewsarabia) April 6, 2023
These 5K attendees included a very important visit made by the South Korean Ambassador Hong Jin-wook. A young man invited the ambassador to join the Iftar and the ambassador accepted the invitation and decided to fast and have Iftar with them so he can properly spend the day there and celebrate with the people.
Later that day, the ambassador posted on his official Facebook and Twitter account a video of the time he spent there and wrote “Ramadan in Egypt is Something else”.
رمضان في مصر حاجة تانية ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/9Eaym0U9d4
— Hong Jin-wook, Korean🇰🇷 Ambassador to Egypt🇪🇬 (@AmbJWHong) April 6, 2023
شاب مصري من المطرية وجه دعوة لسفير كوريا الجنوبية يحضر الإفطار الجماعي بتاعهم. السفير قرر أنه يصوم في اليوم ده، علشان يكون إفطار حقيقي بالنسبة له.
بعد الإفطار قال: "إنها ثقافة الحب والفخر، لقد رأيت روحًا جماعية رائعة في رمضان، والتي لا تُرى إلا هنا في مصر، وكان كل طعام لذيذا جدا" pic.twitter.com/kVHFru0j0K
— Manal (@Manal_Abdelaal) April 7, 2023
Let’s See What People Have Been Saying About The Event
People’s feedback was beyond amazing, there was no single person or platform that didn’t speak about the Iftar.
The word “المطرية”/ “El-Matareya” was mentioned many times and it was not just mentioned by Egyptians, in fact, the whole event was the talk of everyone in the Arab region.
Here are some of the feedback
رمضان فى مصر حاجه تانيه والسر فى التفاصيل #المطرية pic.twitter.com/Gim9vfejGl
— abo yazan (@Mazenmo13138722) April 7, 2023
الإفطار الجماعي في المطرية، القاهرة – ١٥ رمضان ٢٠٢٣ ♥️
📸: Taha Abeed pic.twitter.com/OvPlQo8Y2e
— Ihab Elsawy (@i_sawy) April 6, 2023
🔸 مائدة إفطار المطرية في #القاهرة 15 رمضان
"رمضان في مصر حاجة ثانية والسر في التفاصيل ..
رمضان في مصر غير الدنيا طعمه بطعم النيل " pic.twitter.com/1mBxm889Ye
— إبراهيم بهزاد (@ibahzad) April 7, 2023
إفطار جماعي لكل أهالي المطرية للسنة التاسعة على التوالي، ٢٠٢٣. pic.twitter.com/zfGJqHCHar
— أ. مُحبّ للجَمال. (@Montieeee_) April 6, 2023
– الصور الجميلة دي من "فطار المطرية الجماعي" امبارح
السعادة والمحبة في وشوش الأب وبنته وهم مبسوطين لسعادة وفرحة الناس سعادة "جميلة ومميزة"
مش لازم نكون نسخ من بعض
ومش لازم ولا شرط "أفكارنا ومعتقداتنا تبقى واحدة" عشان نفرح ونتبسط ونشارك بعض فرحتنا الإنسانية ❤️ pic.twitter.com/znwOCweW7f
— Hany Bakhit (@HanyBakhit2) April 8, 2023
إفطار #المطرية السنوي ..
ربنا مايقطع لهم عادة ويزيد الخير بينهم 🇪🇬
تصوير: عمرو صلاح pic.twitter.com/Dh1nskcZ5x
— و َ رْ دّ .. 🇪🇬 (@floraegy) April 6, 2023
رمضان في #مصر حاجة تانية ..أكبر مائدة إفطار لأهالي #المطرية تملأ شوارعها بهجة .. pic.twitter.com/TFvwI2jnXT
— 🇦🇪عـمـر الـمـهـيـري (@OmarAlmehairi) April 6, 2023
رمضان في المطرية ،،حاجة تانية 🌙#وحشتنا_أم_الدنيا 🇪🇬 pic.twitter.com/YyXlxqbqfu
— Mariambintalsayed (@Mariam25000) April 7, 2023
Even the icon singer Assala shared the news.
من المطرية بمصر أم الدنيا 🤍#شكراً pic.twitter.com/OuldZHsscK
— Assala (@AssalaOfficial) April 6, 2023
These two events have brought out the best in people as all the reactions we have seen to both of the trends were very positive and people showed a very beautiful humane side. We hope more of these events happen so we can always use social media for good purposes.
