Hristijan

Posted Wednesday, March 20, 2024

1mo

INFP

Aries

Ramadan fasting/feasting?

A question from Biblical Christian, first of all, wish you a happy Ramadan to all Muslims here, In Biblical ChristianIty according to the Bible, fasting is not eating for certain periods of time or eating only certain kinds of foods and doing so with the purpose of focusing on praying and meditating on God and God's Word and through it fighting sin and you are less tempted to sin, when the body and the mind are focused on God (Jesus's example of fasting recorded in Matthew 4 is great example where Jesus fast without eating any food for 40 days in a row and also John the Baptist for great part of his life while living in a dessert ate only what he could find there and many other prophets) So while looking and observing Muslims around me during this Islamic holiday, since I live in majority Muslim populated place, I was wondering and even confused how is it fasting, by what definition, standard and logic, to not eat from sunrise till sunset, but prior to sunrise and after sunset to bulge in food and overeating yourself and acting like the biggest glutton... This is not my opinion, science and statistics prove this, in Islamic countries populated mainly by Muslim population, you have most emergency ambulance cases due to overeating and there are most deaths caused by overeating during the Ramadan "fast"/feast period, and that's the impression as non Muslim I'm getting, since I live in a majority Muslim populated place I'm perplexed and confused how is this even fasting and why do Muslims over eat themselves that much during their Ramadan fasting and as a consequence many end up dead and what the Quran and the trustworthy Hadiths say about it?