Salaam All
Fasting is an invisible sign of a visible reality.
By making food and water disappear from our lives for a period of time, the poverty of others is made starkly visible.
How we respond to this sudden consciousness is part of our spiritual development while fasting. The typical response is to make an effort to feed some people in need. One of the pillars of Islam, is zakat, or almsgiving, charitable giving.
Ramadan is a prime time during which zakat is performed.
But this kind of action can only be the beginning of a faithful response. We must not only feed the hungry, but starve the injustice. We must distribute food with one hand, and use the other hand to figure out why there is so little of it in the other part of town!
That’s what we should think about when we deprive ourselves of food and water. Think of the injustice in which the world is mired, and the interlocking, complex ways in which we participate in this injustice and are blind to its consequences.
And through the fast, our eyes must turn to the God of justice, the God who knows the suffering and hears the cry of the poor and asks, “Who will loose the bonds of injustice?”
Your Answer; Our Answer, My Answer: Here I am, Lord, send me.
OR. Do you just wait for time of breaking the fast...and say: "Here I am Lord...at the table...give me MORE to drink...give me MORE to eat"
Shamal
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