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When fasting becomes spiritually counterproductive due to anger

I fast Ramadan perfectly but spend the whole month angry at my family and I know this defeats the purpose but I cannot control my irritation

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More people experience this than they realize.

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External ritual observance proceeds while internal purification fails, revealing the gap between form and essence.

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