Tag Archives: Fasting

Be Empty and Cry As a Reed Instrument

This Rumi poem explains the mystical power of Ramadan fasting, which begins tomorrow or Tuesday.

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How to Keep a True Lent

For Robert Herrick, Lent is not about fasting but about starving sin.

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The Spirit’s Table Has Arrived from Heaven

In this Ramadan poem by Rumi, fasting is seen as a way of escaping the body.

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God’s Plenitude: A Nest Full of Stars

Spiritual Sunday Recently I asked Ugandan Farida Bag, a regular reader of this website, whether it was appropriate to wish her a Happy Ramadan, the month-long Islamic observance that started this past week. She sent back the following lovely letter, along with a food poem. Farida’s appreciation of the poem serves as evidence that the […]

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