Tom Facchine – Even Athletes Have To Fast – Ramadan 2022

			Now that it's Ramadan, and we're thinking about fasting,
		

			it's important to not go to either extreme, right? So there's one extreme where people are afraid
that fasting is going to hurt them. And they're afraid. And it's not necessarily justified, that
fear that they have.
		

			So for example, if you're a student in college or if you're even an athlete, right, when you think
about not eating, and not drinking water, and you think about these things, you'd be like, Oh, my
god, how am I going to possibly do this? I'm going to get injured or I'm going to die or something
bad is going to happen. And that's just not the reality. That's not the reality. There are
professional athletes who fast, right? Some of the more famous examples include Hakeem Olajuwon,
right? He used to fast every single Ramadan, people would tell him not to do it, he wouldn't listen.
He would fast every single Ramadan, and he did it fine. There's a lot of professional soccer players
		

			that fast these days. And when it's time to break their fast, they break their fast, they find a way
to make it work. Right. So some of us were if you're in that situation, then it is kind of like
that's your that's your test. You have to kind of take the leap of faith and plan, no one's telling
you to skip suffer and to not get the amount of calories that you need. But you know, you're going
to find that a lot as Oh, Joe is going to take care of it. If you take one step towards him, he's
going to take two steps towards you. And you'll be surprised at what Allah azza wa jal is able to
help you accomplish even if you're fasting. That being said, there is the other extreme that we do
		

			experience sometimes to in the community, but it's usually not like the college aged crowd. It's
usually not the athletes crowd. It's usually the older crowd, in my experience, where they have a
legitimate excuse. They have, you know, chronic illness or they have it. It's kind of dangerous for
them to fast. And they're like, Oh, I'm gonna fast I'm going to tough it out. And that's also not
okay, right? Because if you're going to, we're talking a situation where you're actually going to
put your health in danger for fasting Allah azza wa jal has given you the way out like please please
like take take the way out that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Adam has mercy has given you