What is prescribed for the Muslim, whether he is fasting or not, is not to stay up late at night, and to hasten to sleep after doing whatever he is able to of qiyam al-layl, then he should get up for sahur if it is Ramadan, because eating sahur is a confirmed Sunnah as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Eat sahur 3) I stayed away from food as much as possible; out of sight out of mind. 4) I was determined to experience something my ancestors most likely experienced themselves. 5) I did not have any major Simply put, it means you stop eating completely, or almost completely, for a certain stretch of time. A fast usually lasts from 12 to 24 hours, but some types continue for days at a time. In some How Does Fasting from Food Help Spirituality? (30:54) Hi Fr. Josh!! I know that you are constantly referencing fasting throughout the podcast. You’ve talked about different ways to fast (cold shower, no music in the car, etc.), but I was wondering if you could talk specifically about fasting from food. Restriction days are non-consecutive and include only a small introduction of food. During non-fasting days the intake of food is at leisure . During consecutive fasting days usually only water is permitted . Commonly Practiced Method 16/8: feeding window of 8 h/day in which it is allow to consume food and 16 h of fasting . There are two times to eating during sahur (pre-dawn meal), namely a preferred time and a permitted time. Preferred time to stop eating is ten minutes before Fajr time. So if the Fajr time is 6:12 a.m., one should stop eating around 6:02a.m. Permitted time for eating sahur, however, extends up to 6:12 a.m., after which time it is considered More on Fasting in Ramadan. a) The intention of fasting can be made as late as just before noon, if one forgets to do so during the previous night. If one passes noon without making the intention ones fasting is invalid. (1.3b) b) One should eat before the day breaks even when one is not hungry. Some people say that they are fasting, yet they take food (maybe in a small quantity), but I would say, if you want to fast, fast. Stay away from food at that moment of fasting, except for justifiable reasons. But when there are justifiable reasons to eat, you can practice other types of fasting, like partial fasting (Daniel 10:3), liquid While breakfast is the dawn meal, sahur is pre-dawn meal. Much as we know that the night is free for eating and drinking, Allah has described the time for the end of sahur as indicated in Quran 2 Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset for approximately 30 days. The lunar calendar is based on the monthly cycles of the moon's phases VrxnZ.