Ramadan Abstinence: Spiritual Fuel for 11 Months

Abstaining Ramadan is a spiritual fuel for 11 months. Ramadan is the most energetically charged month of the year, making it an extraordinary opportunity to recharge your body and self with pure divine energy. But what is true abstention, and how can you experience it to receive the full blessings of this sacred time?

What Is True Abstention (Siyam)?

I invite you to reflect for a moment on this idea:
Is Abstention (Siyam) an action or the absence of action? In other words, does abstention (ṣiyām) mean simply to refrain from food, drink, and intimacy?
Or are these forms of refraining merely tools that allow you to access true ṣawm (fasting) in its purest form?

Withholding food and drink is known as withholding (imsāk), and it serves as a gateway to genuine fasting (ṣawm). By halting earthly nourishment, withholding (imsāk) creates space within you to receive elevated, pure nourishment directly from the divine Source.

Nourishment of the Self vs. Nourishment of the Body

The nourishment of the self comes from higher values, while desires drive the nourishment of the body. To live in flow and receive abundance and blessings from every direction, you must learn to balance both types of nourishment.

When this balance is disrupted, and a person becomes absorbed solely in feeding the body through desires life begins to resist. Negative events become easier to attract,

while the positive outcomes you long for become harder to reach.

This is why abstention (ṣiyām) during Ramadan, when practiced consciously, is an extraordinary opportunity to realign that balance.

By withholding (imsāk) from earthly nourishment, you create room for higher, divine nourishment to flow in and through this, you open the path toward true fasting (ṣawm),

where the self begins to feed on meaning, alignment, and connection with Allah.

Ramadan Abstinence: 

True abstention (ṣiyām) during Ramadan is built upon three core principles:

1. A heightened connection with Allah.

2. Glorifying Allah above everything in the universe, including all other sources and means.

3. Receiving celestial nourishment from the primary Source of all universal energy. And because this nourishment is elevated and heavenly, no earthly nourishment should be introduced during a specific period of the day.

Ramadan: A Declaration of Divine Nourishment 

It’s a month in which you declare with your awareness and your entire being
that Allah is the Most Great, even above food itself.
You don’t just say it with words, but live it in action.

Do you believe that food is your only source of nourishment?

This month is a declaration that there is a greater Source than food and drink: Allah, the Most Great, exalted beyond every physical source of nourishment.

Do you believe that the emotions you receive from your partner are your only source of love and reassurance?
This month reminds you that there is a greater Source than any person: Allah, the Most Great, exalted beyond every emotional source.

It is the month of:
"That you may magnify Allah for having guided you." (Al-Baqarah:185)

When you stop all earthly sources of nourishment, you create more space within you
space to be filled with pure, elevated energy, and to experience its powerful effect.

So… is that what you’re truly doing?

Let This Ramadan Be Your Turning Point 

• Abstaining Ramadan is more than a religious routine; it's your opportunity to unlock the most elevated version of yourself.
• Every hunger and thirst is divine training.
• Every moment is a doorway to higher consciousness.
• Choose to rise above emotional reactions.
• Choose to align with the source of divine sustenance.
• Choose to fast for the Most Merciful in stillness, presence, and full submission.
• Let this sacred month leave an imprint that fuels you for the next 11 months.