After speaking to a student of mine just now, he asked me: “How’s fasting going?”

I replied, “Alḥamdulillāh. Did my 10k steps yesterday.”

He said, “What?! How are you doing 10k while fasting?”

I told him: “By walking as normal.”

And that’s the point.

Fasting should not disable you. It should enable you.

We have reduced Ramaḍān to surviving hunger and waiting for ifṭār. But the Ṣaḥābah fought battles while fasting. They travelled. They taught. They built a civilisation.

Fasting is not weakness. It is training. When you remove food, you remove distraction. When you control desire, you strengthen will. When you feel hunger, you remember purpose.

If fasting makes you lazy, short-tempered, and unproductive - then something is wrong with how you’re approaching it but it's also exposing your reality.

Ramaḍān is meant to sharpen life.

If you can control your hunger for ~14 hours, you can control your tongue. And if you can control your tongue, you can discipline your mind. And if you can discipline your mind, you can memorise Qur’ān.