 But now I want to share something, insha'Allah, if you guys don't mind that I wrote after sometime experiencing this fasting thing as a Muslim. A day of fasting is a day of caution. Feeling fatigued from desire's exhaustion. Pass or fail is a matter of the unseen. So struggle I must to keep my record clean. A tune up for the soul more vital than a car. To clean up a sinful heart encrusted like tar. It's been a little while since I entered this state. I taste the bitter patience during my tasteless weight. The sting of thirst settles in as well as painful memories of sin. Realizing how much my soul has been ignored. Realizing that true hunger is distance from my Lord. Realizing careless words that cut like a knife. Realizing I have never been truly hungry in my life. Realizing I have much longer to go than I thought. Realizing that purification is not easily bought but it is a gift for the sick and diseased. It is a gift from a Lord well pleased like one searching all his life for a lost treasure. Can we survive one second outside of his pleasure? Oh how I hope that he is pleased with me when I return. How I hope to be shown my mistakes now that I might learn. Learn to draw near like those that draw nearest. Learn to make a place in my heart where his remembrance is dearest. Thoughts crystal clear now to see the ways of error. Reflection upon that great day its rewards and its terror. Clear is the way of the rejecters who have fled from his life. Clear is the way of the reflectors who flow with insight. Increasing insertitude of the overwhelming event. Increasing insensitivity to how time is best spent. Followers of the prophets whose restraint gave them power. Manifestors of truth Satan can't devour. Oh consumers of the illicit no shame in how we're behaving. Is the permissible not sufficient to satisfy our cravings. Are you a Muslim or a fool. Accept this invitation to a pool fed by a river wider than milk sweeter than honey. For those whose Lord was God not sex food and money. Rejoicing that the life of this world is a goner waiting for that first glance at the one full of majesty bounty and honor. How joyful these thoughts as my heart seems to soften surely as it fasts more often.