I feel You, Allah, in each pang of hunger and each twist of emptiness in my body.
I feel You in all Your infinity, yet I know I am feeling but a shadow of Your eternity, infinity, amazing and awe striking.
Empathy, this fast is teaching me empathy. For so many are empty. So many are hungry.
So many are hungry and they are Your children. They are Your children and You are hungry alongside them.
Your hunger is a mother's hunger. You are the mother of us all. We came not from Your body but from Your soul.
My hunger is a lover's hunger. I love all Your hungry children and I love You. I would do whatever You want me to.
It's not easy, walking Your path. It's not easy walking the path that you have set down.
To love humanity, nature, and all of creation the way You do.
It requires sacrifice, and constant giving. Yet when I fast for Your sake I know I can sacrifice anything.
It takes strength, to go against society. Yet when I keep going through the hunger I know I'm strong enough to endure.
It takes faith, to keep going even when you don't have all the answers. And when I fast my faith in You grows.
It takes love to fight against Shaytan's temptations. But when I fast my love for You flows.
My love for You in all that You are.
Your life force is in each person, each creature, each rock, tree and star.
My love for all of the children You are.
You are the living waters both near and far.
It takes self-control to do all that you've got to. When I fast I learn to control my life through Your presence.
It takes self control to keep going even when it's hard. When I fast I teach myself perseverance.
Sacrifice, faith, love, control, strength and empathy. But most of all what I learn is humility.
To know that I'm just a letter in Your book. To know that outside myself I must look.
And yet I am the universe, and so is everyone, and so is all that You create.
You're justice, You're honour, You're camaraderie, You're life. You're the love that cannot abate.
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