Fasting for Physical Health, Spiritual and Social
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Fasting was one of five pillar of Islam which was carried out by Muslims around the world. It was required to all people who have believing, as has been required over the Rosul Muhammad  shollallohu ‘alaihi wa salam before. Fasting as a religious charity that has been required for the people.

There are many kind of fasting. As a fasting practice every day with a wage increase, and also talk Fasting, which is the practice of the Jews fasting, imprisoned fasting, as done by the fasts which embraces Buddhism and some Jews, and the fast-folk who have other ways and criteria determined by each of the people. While the fasting in Islam, people will know that he has a different procedure rules that procedure in both time and implementation. Not too tight, so burdensome Muslims, is also not too loose, so ignore the aspects of psychosis. Where Islam has shown flexibility.

The etymology means holding fast, holding food, drink, bad talk and act. While the terminology, is the holding of the things that invalidate fasting with the intention to fast. Some scholars defined, fasting is holding two members of appetite, stomach and genitals in a day, rising since the second dawn until sundown with a particular intention. Ramadan fasting must be done, sometimes because the view has been a matter of perfect Sya’ban has 30 full days or weeks with the view on the evening of 30 Sya’ban.

There are the parameters of legitimate or damage someone fast. First, the value of the formal validity in the perspective of this review is only fast in terms of a hungry, thirsty and keep an own carnality  So according to this value, someone has said, when he is not fast food, drink and sexual relations from dawn until well down the sun. But Rasulullah SAW has given warning against Muslims through his hadit which read: “Many people are fasting they do not get anything but only hunger and thirst are.” From the hadith we can see that the substance or essence is not only holding fast hunger, thirst and passion carnality course, but in the fast are different rules, meaning and benefits that must be followed. Second, the functional value of the parameter to be valid or damage to someone fasting reviewed in terms of its function. The function is to make people cautious then according to this value, fasting and someone is not valid when the damaged people can achieve the quality of piety towards Alloh Ta’ala.

Someone’s Piety was reflected as  behavior, as perform God command and clear of His restrictions. This was explains us about the reason why this preference is required in the fasting month Ramadan, not in the other. God’s intimate wisdom fasting month Ramadan, because Ramadan is the month full of blessings and that God be favored with the largest decrease in miracles, namely al-Quran al-Karim would showed that man to the straight path. Ramadan is also a consolation, mercy for those who believe, and as a tranquilizer and careful cleaning of the soul-sport. This is the biggest favor and the greatest. So must for those who are guided to be grateful for the favors of each morning and afternoon.
Approach to health care, why should we fast?

For the Physical Health
Muslims do not fast because of the health benefits of fasting. In fact since a long time, such as fasting therapy for those with problems in the case of excess body weight. With fast, digestion’s work tools will be rest. Fasting has the opposite effect more than strict diet to reduce body weight. at the time, the stomach should be rest of food processing work, as the incoming machine must also rested, especially in Islam, we really stomach contents should be divided into three, for food, for water and for air. Muslims fasting in Ramadan is very different from the diet plan. Ramadan fasting does not reduce the calories and nutrition Feed, measure only slightly lower than the normal nutritional needs. In addition, those who fast in Ramadan, can still eat every type of food, while they are fasting for the diet, only eating certain foods. Other factors that make fasting Ramadan is a healthful, they do so with a fast voluntary and sincere hearts, not as a prescription or recommendation from a doctor.

Ramadan is a month to controlling self, and this will continue despite Ramadan has ended. If the habit resumed although not fast in Ramadan, whether for religious or dietary needs, the effect will be felt in the longer. Basically the people who has fasting is only when the skip lunch and breakfast speed time. People fast will drink for 8 to 10 hours and it is not dangerous to health and does not cause dehydration which bad for the human body. Conversely, mild dehydration and storage of water in the body can increase the chance of life.

Positive impact for the other body, can reduce fasting blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure control. Therefore, fasting is recommended for the treatment of those who suffer diabetes, obesity and high blood. Under the certain conditions, even allowed a patient to fast, except for those who suffer pain that is severe diabetes, coronary heart and kidney stones.  Fasting can keep the stomach full of food which caused many major of various diseases as obesity notably the occurrence of other diseases,  so fasting now then the only way that you can keep all members of the body because of disease through toxic elements in food can be united after it was neutral between one another. Indeed, the impression in the hungry is better than the use of drugs.

diseases such as high blood pressure, growing fat and increase in blood sugar are very easy to attack and weaken the strength of the individual. Indeed, there is no drug specifically for the restore but with the fasting which formed with a new system in the body of the act off the cells to replace old cells with new, better and more forceful.

Reviewed from woman’s fertility, fasting is also a way that can reduce the effect of  broloktin hormone that caused sterility. In conclusion fasting can make healthy body systems and can prevent diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

For Health Psyches
From the psychological side, people who fasted during Ramadan tend to feel calm and peaceful. Everyone tried to hold their anger and the level of crime in Ramadan is usually decreased. Muslims always remember to keep their behavior. Increasing the quality of psychological reason relating to the stability of blood sugar will be better during Ramadan, which affects the behavior changes. So also with the night prayer habits. Prayer is not only useful for the absorption of food, but also to release energy. Each prayer movements with a light moving. Someone will deliver 10 extra calories. With that combination, prayer becomes a kind of sport that is quite good during Ramadan. Similarly, with the habit to read Al-Quran, not only make the hearts and mind calm, but can also keep Al-Quran reminding.

For Social Health
Given the Feeling and Suffering of Others Feeling hungry and thirsty also provide us how the weight of the suffering felt by other people. For the experience of hunger and thirst that we feel will soon be over with just a few hours, while the suffering of other people will end sometime. From here, the fasting will be a stabilizing and our feeling of solidarity to other Muslims who have experienced the suffering that has not been up to Therefore, as a symbol of solidarity, a sense that, before Ramadan ends; we are obliged to engage with the charity so that gradually we will overcome these problems that people suffer. Even charity is not just for the sake of the poor and suffering, but also for us that in order to remove it as such, we lost the soul dinginess related assets such as property mad, griping, and the other.

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