Spirit of Ramadan

SPIRIT OF RAMADAN for his needs. His heart is filled with gratitude. He praises God and offers thanks to Him. The temporary deprivation of food and water stresses the importance of these things as divine blessings. It reminds man that all he has is from God, who is the supreme and all-powerful and one day all would be taken away from him. One who fasts in all sincerity takes care to cast his entire life in the one consistent mould. In all of his affairs, he applies the constraints laid down by God. He checks himself from abusing others, stays his hand from persecution and halts in his steps towards injustice. As the Prophet said, “Such a man can be likened to a tied-up horse which can go only as far as its rope permits: in that way, he cannot transgress.” (Musnad Ahmad, Hadith No. 11335) Man is here for a test. Breaking one’s arrogance and stubbornness, fasting makes man realize his helplessness. Man is cut to size. It makes mean realize how dependent on God he is. They he prays truly from the heart, connecting him with the Almighty.