1. Ramadan is not only a month of starvation. During the daytime when we are fasting, we go ahead with our daily routines and lives while refraining from eating, drinking, sexual acts and behavior such as rudeness, backbiting, and cursing.
By doing so we learn how to control our reactions and give us an opportunity to forgive and focus on what is important.
2. When we fast, it is not only abstaining from drinking or eating. You abstain from intense desires which may include sadness, the anger of even frustration.
You might not be able to control the elements which make you sad or upset but how you react to it is entirely your choice. Our hearts abstain from grieving and control is taken over by our minds rather than our emotions.
3. Nobody should be feeling bad for those who are fasting. Even though fasting can make a person sleepy, tired and fatigues the return we get thus is far better than someone else’s pity.
Activities which feed your ego are abstained for in this Holy month. We do so that our minds can become free of the needs and desires of the human body.
4. Muslims do not fast for the entire month of Ramadan. The fast begins at dawn and breaks at sunset. The period between fasts, at night, is a time of reflection where you can truly see how the needs of the human body affect your mind and thought process as well as your body.
5. Fasting is not counting down the time to when the fast will be broken i.e. sunset, this defeats the entire purpose of fasting. Fasting should rather discipline you and train your mind to not think about food and water all day long.
Our superficial physical desires should be taken out of our mind so that it can truly reflect upon you.
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