This is what I call Eid-al-Fitr which translates to ‘feast of breaking the fast’. The ‘fast’ i.e., ramadan: It’s seriously funny to see Muslims fasting and it’s even funnier to hear Christians say eid mubarak. Basically, a people engage in two feasts a day (24 hours), for a whole month, and somehow they’ve convinced us that that is fasting! Wow!
By this logic, I know very many people who fast all year round. Here me out. You wake up early, prepare yourself for work, take your breakfast before 6 am and leave for work where you don’t eat during the day. In the evening, you arrive home past 6 pm and so you eat your supper at around 7 pm, you keep this up a year, and guess what? According to Islam, you’ve been fasting the whole year. I know, it’s ridiculous. I think so too.
Anyway, at a time where you can redefine words to mean whatever you want, I get it. Also, why do we need to know you’re fasting again? Isn’t fasting a private affair between you and God? Oh, I forgot, that’s Christianity (Mat 6). In Islam, Allah wants you to show and tell the whole world that you’re fasting. But some of us know what you’re doing *wink*wink*.
Ramadan is ironically all about food and I’m not trying to be petty. It’s a fact. Food consumption increases, expenditure on food increases, food wastage increases, unhealthy-eating diseases increase around the month of ramadan in Islamic countries as research shows. Check out the economic impact of ramadan on the food sector. I particularly love another article titled, Not so fast: ramadan sees rise in binge eating… and another by the NIH; The puzzle of self-reported weight gain in a month of fasting (Ramadan) among a cohort of Saudi families in Jeddah, Western Saudi Arabia.
I don’t see the need to say it but I’ll say it anyway. I’m not against fasting; for spiritual or medical reasons. Fasting has advantages that I’ve personally benefited from but don’t go lying to us that you’re fasting while you’re feasting. We see you! Just say you have a month of gorging/ halal gluttony in your calendar, we won’t judgeðŸ¤.
Okay, let’s now feast to end the month-long feasting!
Note: I’m aware other things are abstained from during the ‘fast’ like beverages and sex.
😂😂this is a hilarious yet factual piece
Glad you enjoyed it.
Yoh, Mimi naisha niokotwe😂😂. But the facts hit their mark.
Glad you are enjoying yourself.