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This is discussion. Look, I'm not prescribing anything medically. Got make sure you consult your
doctors and your health professionals. This is just, I'm just sharing my thoughts.
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But there's this whole discussion about exams.
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What happens with exams in the month of Ramadan?
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Pythagoras, the famous Greek mathematician, and philosopher.
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He
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won wanted to take an exam
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in the University of Alexandria.
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And He fasted for that exam. Do you know for how long 40 days, so for the exam, He fasted for 40
days.
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Socrates, Plato, and many of the others, they had a regular routine of fasting for 10 days, not for
health benefits, because they were very cautious when it came to food anyway.
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Because there were philosophers and poets who would never indulge in food, or gluttony. So they were
healthy, physically anyway, but merely to the already sharp, but to sharpen their minds even
further.
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And to gain even more clarity. They would fast regularly for 10 days, Pythagoras did it to enter an
exam. And later when he started having a large growing body of students, he had a condition. Nobody
could study with him, unless they fasted for 40 days first. So to enroll in his classes,
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if we had that you wouldn't be here, I wouldn't be here.
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But to enroll in his classes, people had to study for 40 days, students had to complete a 40 day
fast math study. They had to complete a 40 day fast, then they were allowed to study with him.
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So fasting sharpens the mind. It creates clarity. Why are we then so dope? During the fast a lot of
it is mental. It's all in the mind. We've programmed ourselves we've conditioned ourselves to feel
that if I fast, I'm going to be lethargic, I'm going to be sleepy, I'm going to be drowsy, dull, my
mental faculties are going to suffer, I'm going to be weak Subhanallah as Muslims, we fast and we
are drowsy and dreary. And non Muslims are fasting without any intention of religion or reward. And
they're going for 160 mile 100 mile bike rides whilst fasting, no food, no drink.
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So it's possible. We've conditioned and programmed ourselves to believe otherwise.
