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