There are many who expound\nlibertarianism, and encourage others to freedom; however, they are,\nobliviously, enslaved and bounded, and do not have any determination by\nthemselves. Many who violate others\u2019 freedom and rights for the sake of their\ndesires, and count themselves as the sole ruler of nations and societies are\ndispossessed of freedom, as well. These two categories are both slaves;\nhowever, not slaves to an individual; not slaves who are physically under\ncontrol of another person while being mentally free. They are slaves to lust,\nmoney, wealth, and rank. They are totally enslaved by the men of power, rulers,\nkings, and slaves to habits and ill thoughts. They are slaves who, as well as\ntheir bodies, their spirits and minds are also imprisoned, and all their\nentities are confined, and have no sense of real freedom, and spiritual\nself-determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Undoubtedly, these people are slaves,\nand liberating them is a hard task. However, Islam has prescribed various\nagendas to free the human from the bounds of imprisonment, vicious habits, and\ndesire, and unless he attains this liberation, he will not experience the taste\nof freedom, and will not attain liberation in other fields. In the viewpoint of\nthe Holy Quran, one of the objectives of the call of Prophet Muhammad\n(PBUH&HP) is to release such charges from the human mind and spirit.\nTherefore the Holy Quran states in this matter, \u201cThe Prophet who\u2026 removes their\nburdens and the entanglements in which they are involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this respect, one of the liberating\nagendas of Islam is \u201cfasting\u201d. Fasting liberates the human from the bound of\nanimal habits, and elevates him to the celestial world. A Muslim intending to\nfast gets up from his calm and relaxed sleep, for having a breakfast and doing\nthe prayers and the Salat, and becomes free from the habit of sleeping. During\nthe fast, he pulls himself out from the domination of his body and animal\ninstincts and habits of eating and drinking, and breaks the spell of desires.\nThe fasting person refrains from having delicious food, and sweet fruits, and\ncooling drinks, and doesn\u2019t think about the habits of the days that he does not\nfast, and he gives up his routine diet. Thus he liberates his thought, wisdom,\nand conscience, and finds himself in a higher horizon, and in another light and\nradiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fasting Muslim reads the prayers\nof day and night and dawn special to the month of Ramadan; the prayers mostly\nhaving contents of wisdom, that have the truth and spirit of freedom. These prayers\nblend the monotheistic faith with the soul and the spirit, and save the reader\nfrom the heavy bounds of vicious and awful traits, and guide to virtuous traits\nand morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People who, due to daily activities,\ndo not have a single moment for observing the spiritual matters, and the waves\nof society throw them from side to another side, and do not have a shelter, at\nthis time they come to rest in the sanctuary of the Holy Ramadan, and sink\nthemselves in spiritual and religious pleasures, and come to understand that\nhumans can be inattentive to the worldly affairs, and not to heed to the\ndesires, thirst and appetite, and passions of tongue and eyes, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore the auspicious month of\nRamadan is a suitable opportunity for the humans to take lessons of freedom,\nand liberate themselves from vicious traits and improper bounds, and remember\nthat one of the objectives of Islam, like other divine religions, is to set\nfree the individuals and societies from the oppression of despotic rules and\npersonal arbitrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(The above is a\nselection taken from \u201cThe Holy Month of Ramadan, the Sublime School of Training\nand Morality\u201d (1), by the Grand Ayatullah Saafi Golpaygani (with some changes))<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roshd website congratulates all\nMuslims on the arrival of the month of descent of the Holy Quran, and the time\nfor freedom of mankind, the Holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Footnote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. The Holy\nQuran, (7:157)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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