In nearby volunteers attend sweating and Agrvon hastily cooked vegetables and dishes based on rice, mainly from the time a large metal dishes in each of their guests while preparing for a moment the ears of Morocco.
The mosque is located in the center of Dubai just meters away from the Dubai Creek - which represents the commercial center of the original to the UAE when Dubai was a center of a small trading and fishing - and offers the mosque and the free meal to the poor every day during the month in the table is enough for between 1500 and 1800 workers a day.
Perhaps the dustbins Fatima Hassan mosque empty but with the advent of Ramadan occurs a dramatic increase in food waste throughout the city and the Gulf from the remains of luxurious banquets attended by the wealthy in the region means the high heat of summer food-spoiling quickly.
Noor Mohammed, a sales coordinator volunteered to feed the fasting "We have almost residues. Whatever is left of our people. We call people and offer them."
But not all breakfast in Dubai is just the meals to the poor, many of them migrant workers who earn less than a thousand dirhams (272 dollars) a month and usually suffer from large debts.
Dubai transformed itself over the past fifty years to commercial and tourist center known for real estate projects, luxury and lavish banquets in luxury hotels and restaurants to meet the demands of wealthy consumers who want the best types of fresh food on the table for breakfast.
Dubai is the tallest tower in the world and made islands shaped like palm can be seen from space and a number of luxury hotels including the Burj Al Arab, which takes the form of a sail and lots of them is breakfast and meals for those who could pay for it.
Breakfast and meals in the most exquisite places are usually exorbitant prices as cost as much as 200 dirhams (55 dollars) per capita.
Despite the hours spent in the preparation of meals, the waiters in top hotels in Dubai say that most of what remains of the food goes directly to the trash bins.
According to Dubai Municipality, the amount of food placed in garbage bins Emirates increases by up to 20 percent in the month of Ramadan and most of the residues consist mainly of rice and other food is vegetables.
And said that he was the municipal About 1850 tons of food in the Mediterranean during Ramadan in 2010, representing about 20 percent of the total waste in Dubai during Ramadan.
The National daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi in August of last year in the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi were about 500 tons of food, at least on a daily basis during Ramadan.
A waiter in a five star hotel in Dubai would only give his first name for fear of peer-to lose his job as he fills the breakfast dishes to the tables at a time when business checking tables "cuisine hot and cold cuisine ... all the tables had."
"If you asked people to get food to their rooms offer fresh food again. But this leaves a lot of waste."
But nutrition experts at major hotels such as Marriott and Hilton in Dubai say they plan not to thrown any food, although the rate of food preparation increases by up to 15 percent during Ramadan.
Simon Lazarus, director of food and drinks in the hotel chain Hilton Worldwide Middle East and Africa, "We have control systems help us to avoid waste."
"Even if there are small remnants of the workers are all Saoklunha. Does not recycle food and we have a strict policy not to do so."
it raised a large increase in food waste during the month of Ramadan criticism from religious scholars who say that this is incompatible with the spirit of fasting.
Sheikh Mudesir, a cleric based in Dubai, "wasting the grace of God, such as food, especially in a time when people are starving in Ethiopia, Somalia and elsewhere is not commensurate with the idea of moderation in Islam. God says in the Qur'an that spendthrifts are brothers of the devils."
"We must reduce the amount of food from the hotels they offer. Should not be a question of the review. Iftar meals in hotels should not be reserved for the wealthy but for everyone, especially the less wealthy and there are a lot of them."
The entities that are looking to help the poor and the needy, the project "Conservation of grace", which was founded in 2004. This combines project based in Abu Dhabi leftover food from the major gatherings such as weddings, banquets and meals for breakfast at the hotel in the UAE capital for the proper distribution of food.
Sultan Al-Shehhi project manager, told Reuters that the project hopes to extend its activities in Dubai and other emirates in later this year
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