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Ramadan Pearls 07 – reed
By
Aziz Poonawalla
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and the belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. The fog clears, and new energy makes you run up…
Ramadan Pearls 06 – expectant
By
Aziz Poonawalla
When it comes to material food, if you eat too little, you will remain hungry like the crow and suffer ill-temper and anemia; if you eat your fill, your body will incur the penalty of indigestion. Partake of God’s food, that easily digested nutriment, and ride like a ship on the spiritual ocean. Be patient…
Ramadan Pearls 05 – objective
By
Aziz Poonawalla
As for the men of knowledge of the hereafter, what they mean by the correctness of fasting is its acceptability; and the acceptability of the fast is whether or not it has enabled one to reach one’s objective. They understand the objective of fasting to be the taking on, as much as possible, of a…
Ramadan Pearls 04 – angels
By
Aziz Poonawalla
He who has fasted for Allah, the Glorious and Mighty, and is in the discomfort of heat and struck by thirst, will have his face wiped and be given the good news by a thousand angels whom Allah has entrusted to him until he breaks his fast; at that point Allah will say: “How sweet…
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