Hi brother,
I am Ghada a muslim girl from Saudi Arabia the place in wich islam comes from.
I will tell you what we do in Islam about fasting,
Just before month and a half we finished (Ramadan) the month that all muslims have to fast in. (all the month > 30 days)
Fasting is not only from food! fasting has somthing in more meaning than fasting from food. In (Ramadan) we comes more and more near from Allah (God). To do more things that Allah wants & love.
We do not just fast from food but fast from what the human wants from this world that will finish in some day! e.g. when we are fasting, No man should not have sex with his wife! Also, you should not say somthing bad to others, you should read or go to some lessons that teachs Islam ("For Muslems people").... and so on...
We fast from earlly morning like 4 am depend on the time the light comes out. before the white line comes out from the sky we should stop eating or drinking anything.
till >>> the sunset !
Then everything goes normal till the another morning...
I mean you can eat, drink, do what you want with your wife, enjoy yourself, but !!!! In Ramadan... this month is once a year for muslims so even if we later after fasting time after the sunset finishes we should be good > read somthing good, watching somthing good, be good
We have works too, I am a university student other are job workers.... etc.. but we all fast... even the children before they become adult loves to fast with us, how lovely they are ..... but we gave them some water until they can learn after a while.
Try that even if you are christain. We have a driver but he is not even a chritain ... somthing different (He is Indian)...
But In Ramadan he fasts as we do....... really he felt so comfortable.
yours,
Ghada :roll: