What is the main purpose of fasting in Ramadan?
As Muslims, the month of Ramadan is a month that we always look forward to every year, Alhamdulillah this year Allah still gives us the opportunity to fast. Our main purpose of fasting in this blessed month of Ramadan is to fulfill the obligation of the 3rd pillar of Islam, namely fasting in the month of Ramadan.
Fasting is an obligation that must be carried out by every Muslim who is mature, sane, not sick, not a traveler and not menstruating or postpartum for women, this is our main purpose of fasting in Islam.
How is fasting beneficial for someone spiritually and physically?
Fasting has many spiritual benefits because by fasting we can become better people, increase our piety to Allah, increase our social concern for others who are less fortunate because we can feel hunger and thirst, can make us control our lusts better, get the opportunity to get great rewards and so on.
Likewise with physical benefits, we will also get physical benefits by fasting, among the physical benefits that we will get by fasting are as follows:
- Can lose weight
- Can maintain heart health
- Can maintain skin health
- Can maintain mental health
- Can increase body metabolism
- Can reduce the risk of diabetes
- And others
Tell us about your favorite Sahur and Iftar Recipes. What are the benefits?
Currently I always want to break my fast with a sweet cold drink, one of my favorite drinks when breaking my fast is cold sugarcane juice and also cold young coconut water, for food to break my fast, I like to eat dates, cakes and also rice with chicken or beef side dishes.
And for the sahur menu, I always like to eat sahur with white rice and fried fish or fried meat, then for drinks I like to drink warm tea and just plain water.
Tell us about the things we should and shouldn't do while fasting
The main thing we have to do when fasting is to refrain from eating and drinking, then we also have to guard our eyes, guard our mouth so we don't say harsh things and also guard our ears so we don't like hearing bad things.
Then the main thing that we must not do while fasting is that we must not eat or drink, then we must also control our lust so that our fast is complete.
Here is my entry for the || Contest Fasting in the month of Ramadan which was organized by brother @abdullahw2, I also want to invite @cymolan, @dekki and Tgk @itikna09 to participate together in this contest.