{"id":829,"date":"2023-03-29T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T18:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=829"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T18:45:29","slug":"why-do-muslims-fast-in-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Muslims Fast in Ramadan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing Muslims fast for 30 days in the holy month of Ramadan. Yet, their motivations and expectations vary. Ordinary Muslims fast primarily to discharge a religious obligation; the more spiritually-minded Muslims fast in hopes of spiritual transformation \/ rejuvenation. Imam Muhammad al-Ghazali, the preeminent Islamic scholar, identifies three categories \/ degrees of fast: ordinary, extra-ordinary and perfect fast. Ordinary fast involves curbing the appetite of the stomach and the appetite of sex. Extra-ordinary fast involves the tongue, eyes, ears, hands and feet. The perfect fast involves the heart. In this presentation, we will explore the spiritual dimension of the Ramadan fast using al-Ghazali&#8217;s classifications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1380\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1380','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=829-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"03-24-2023.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing Muslims fast for 30 days in the holy month of Ramadan. Yet, their motivations and expectations vary. Ordinary Muslims fast primarily to discharge a religious obligation; the more spiritually-minded Muslims fast in hopes of spiritual transformation \/ rejuvenation. Imam Muhammad al-Ghazali, the preeminent Islamic scholar, identifies three categories \/ degrees of fast: ordinary, extra-ordinary and perfect fast. Ordinary fast involves curbing the appetite of the stomach and the appetite of sex. Extra-ordinary fast involves the tongue, eyes, ears, hands and feet. The perfect fast involves the heart. In this presentation, we will explore the spiritual dimension of the Ramadan fast using al-Ghazali&#8217;s classifications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1381\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1381','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=829-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/03-24-2023.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"03-24-2023.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}