: RAMAZAN MUBARAK.....(Please go through to undrstnd, mentiond brfly):: “Two-fold, I learned is the purpose of fasting. One has to abstain from food and drink in order to feel in one’s body what the poor and hungry feel. Thus, social responsibility is being hammered into religious consciousness as a religious postulate. The other purpose of fasting during Ramadan is self-discipline, an aspect of individual morality strongly accentuated in all Islamic teachings (as for instance in the total prohibition of all intoxicants which Islam regards as too easy avenue of escape from consciousness and responsibility). In these two elements – brotherhood of man and individual self discipline – began to discern the outlines of Islam’s ethical outlook.” – Muhammad Asad (formerly Leopold Weiss) in his 1954 book Road to Mecca
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