On Fasting.
February 15, 2025 Key Concepts : Fasting ∞
On Fasting.
#1.
Hunger and thirst are ancient, fundamental drives that help sharpen your focus. You can't ignore hunger and thirst. Fasting directs your attention towards the one to whom the fast is dedicated. It's a powerful reminder to remember the beloved Divine.
#2.
Dehydration expels water, often eliminating toxic residues from cells. Calorie restriction forces cells to detoxify by removing unnecessary components. The body enters an emergency mode, enhancing your awareness and helping you realize what truly matters in life. Fasting is an excellent detoxifier for your mind, guiding you towards long-sought clarity.
#3.
Receptors, metabolic enzymes has their own Affinity and Steady States. Consuming more food bombards you with numerous ingredients, saturating receptors and binding to enzyme active sites, often causing downregulation and decreased affinity to their targets. The result is isolation from the external world and a metabolic burden leading to oxidative stress and toxic byproducts that create a negative feedback loop, which further downregulating the "perception" system. It's no wonder you feel sluggish and sleepy after a heavy meal. Fasting sharpens your perception and helps you see clearly what is truly important in life. It's a reset—a return to baseline, purification, and proximity.
#4.
Calorie restriction is a secret to longevity. Fasting becomes an ingredient for "eternal life" through contemplation and remembrance of the Divine.
#5.
As part of this spiritual journey, Allah introduced fasting (Sawm) during Ramadan, to enhance spiritual perception. Fasting is viewed as a means and training program for achieving closeness to the divine. It heightens awareness of life's higher purposes both in this world and the hereafter, promoting peace and meaningful pursuits.
Sawm fosters empathy for the hungry and needy, encouraging social responsibility. By reducing material focus and enhancing spiritual awareness through a beneficial system, including biological purification, fasting aligns human actions with divine intentions.
#6.
Biologic, Physiologic, Scientific, Cultural and other Theological benefits of Sawm ... just google it.
NB.
"O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous." (Quran 2:183)
"But to fast is best for you, if you only knew." (Quran 2:184)