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Ramadan 2018 – Day 14: The Harder Task

Sins of the mind, heart and tongue are harder to refrain from than sins of the limbs.

Ramaḍān is a month of sacrifice, discipline and taqwá.

One of the spiritual benefits of a proper fast is that it creates a higher level of consciousness and awareness of Allāh.

Ramaḍān is the last of times to argue or raise our voices.

Fasting makes a person conscious of Allāh. When a person is conscious of Allāh, he will be cautious of Allāh. This is Taqwá.

The purpose of fasting is to create Taqwá. The route to Taqwá is purity of speech.

A true fast is also of the heart and mind: to observed a true fast you do not entertain any thoughts or feelings which are harām.

It is easy to abstain from food but avoiding a slip of the tongue is difficult. Ramaḍān is a good time to practice silence.

For eleven months of the year we starve the rūḥ and lavish all our attention on the external carriage (our physical body).