Fasting is an intellectual awakening.

 AHMED NOOR

It is said full stomach never brings good thoughts. Thus fasting-- Muslims observe during the month of Ramadan, keep away from evil action and evil thought. One who observe fast, he or she keeps  emotion under control. Fasting develops spirituality which  is an elevated state of intellectual awakening. Spirituality activates that intellectual process which is necessary for the development of one’s personality.

Thinkers and philosophers have expressed that  fasting is not mere keep body purify but mind. Luqman the wise, explains to his son,” when the stomach is full, the intellect begins to sleep. Wisdom becomes mute and the parts of the body restrain from acts of righteousness’

Islamic philosopher  Imam Ghzali said ‘He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world’.

It is a unique month of self-analysis, and discover own weakness and potential.Noted writer Taqiq Tamadan said  “Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.”

As Mahatma Gandhi said ‘The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.  Jalauddin Rumi said ‘Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul’

Hunger is one the most powerful urges that we experience. Many, through over- or under-eating or consumption of unhealthy foods, abuse this urge. Thus, when a person purposefully denies something to their own self that it craves, they are elevating their mind above their body, and their reason and will above their carnal passions. "A fasting person empties his stomach of all the material things: to fill his soul with peace and blessings, to fill his heart with love and sympathy, to fill his spirit with piety and Faith, to fill his mind with wisdom and resolution," says H.  Abdalati.

2017