Ramadan Kareem
Ramadan, the extended custom of fasting for Muslims, will start on May 6 this year. For the following a month, I will quick consistently, from dawn to twilight no eating, no drinking (not water), and no sex; in addition to no battling and no meddling for seventeen hours every day. This year I am planning for Ramadan with another goal. The motivation came not from an Islamic researcher, but rather from a Christian clergyman. Not one to watch recordings, I got out from under my propensity and squeezed the Play button. Fire up. M'ellen Kennedy of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta was tending to her gathering on the mainstays of Islam. Fasting, she expressed, was tied in with having some time off from your propensities, to develop propensities that raise you, and forego propensities that pull you down. I had not considered fasting in those terms. We have fixed propensities, be it resting, eating, mingling, contemplating, even the seat we take at the table. We awaken at a ...