Shadee Elmasry – 2. Fasting An Immense Wisdom

			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