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Why exemptions from religious fasting create guilt

I feel guilty eating during my period when other women in my mosque are still fasting for Ramadan.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Religious accommodations can feel like spiritual inadequacy rather than divine mercy.

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“Where Are You with Fasting — all traditions and the evidence?”

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