Shadee Elmasry – 2. Fasting An Immense Wisdom
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What is the wisdom of fasting?
Well, if you can go without food and water, he can go without
anything, including our sins. I mean, nobody has a sin that's more
important than food and water, even a drug dealer, or a drug
addict, I'm sorry, he's gonna care for water, eventually, at some
point, water is going to be more valuable to him than his drugs.
Right? So but if you have controlled your stomach, you can
control anything, whether it's your mind, whether it's your ego,
with no matter what it is. So that's one of the wisdoms of
fasting in that if you can control your stomach, you can control your
ego, you can control yourself. And if you can control yourself, what
do we call that? We call that discipline. Discipline is
the ability to give yourself a command. And then to follow
through with it. That's how simple it is to give yourself an order
and to do it, I'm going to wake up at this time, and do XY and Z, I'm
going to go to work, I'm never going to be late for work, I'm
gonna go 10 minutes early, every time it's gonna relate. I'm going
to study in advance, I'm gonna need to do this that other, that's
discipline. So one of the wisdoms of fasting is discipline.
Another wisdom of fasting, is that it gives us belief that we can
overcome our sense, most people actually don't have the belief
that they could overcome their demons, their addiction or sin is
so in control of them. And they've just that's all they know, there
is a life of addiction or a life of being controlled by this
substance or habit. Okay? And they don't know any other life while
Ramadan comes to prove to you know, you can do it, you went
without food and water for 30 days straight in the daytime. If you
have that kind of discipline, you do so it's really about
inculcating the belief based upon demonstration, you have
demonstrated the ability to avoid a certain act or certain sin,
right. And as a result of that, you should now have the self
belief that overcoming an addiction is is something that you
can do, and whenever you look at people with addictions, and one of
the first things is the self belief, right? That this is
doable, this is something that can be done right they then take it to
they combine it by also we combine it into slime, I don't even know
about you know the AAA methods, but, but I know that in Islam, we
combined we do not separate between the sense of self will and
willpower and that everything is in Allah's hands. Right. So we our
willpower is to put ourselves in Allah's hands, and then believe
and believe that Allah Tata can change our situations. So
demonstrating to ourselves that we fasted is meant to prove to
ourselves the durability of getting rid of any other addiction
or sin, which is extremely important if you want your life to
be good. We need to win those battles
and put ourselves in Allah's hands so he can deliver us