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Know that the goal in fasting is for the veil of appetite and anger to be lifted from the heart’s eye so that the heart may see the mystery of the dominion of heaven and earth.

(The Easy Roads of Sayf al-Din, as translated by William Chittick in Faith and Practice in Islam)

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