Make it Count: Watch What You Eat!
I know of a woman who's like a mother to me who never fast, not just the month of Ramadan, but at all! Not because she don't want to, but because she's suffering from ulcer, a chronic one for that matter. "I cried for myself every Ramadan Misbahu," she once told me. I myself have one time happened to only fast for just three days the entire Ramadan because of the same problem - ulcer. That was a bitter experience I can't take off my head. It's accompanied by lot of pain; not been able to fast while others are doing is a pain in itself, it makes one reluctant in other spiritual actions during Ramadan especially Qiyam al-lail, feeling a kind of shame inside you, especially when you hide to eat your halal meal during the day. And to talk of paying it back when you're healthy after Ramadan, that's the worse part to me. Many people today suffer from this illness and as a result miss out to fast the days of Ramadan. So I have a piece of advice for us as ...