FASTING

The purpose of fasting is not to feel one's own hunger but the hunger of all those other people. How can one say one has fasted if all that one felt was one's own empty stomach gnawing. Although the feeling is our's, the purpose is the perception of another's hunger that shall understand the meaning of 'food for one is enough for two, and food for two is enough for three.'
Our beloved Prophet s.a.w is reported to have said, 'woe to those who fast but all they felt was hunger and thirst.'

Blessed are they who fast and their own hunger and thirst are the echoes of the plight of the hungry millions.

Blessed are they who fast and understood the meaning of 'food for one is enough for two' because they perceive the second as none other than God Himself.

borrowed from other musings of Jak.