The Fasting Month is Slipping Away.

The Fasting Month is at its tail end and in a day or two it will be the Aidil Fitri where families get together and celebrate for a few days the end of the Fasting Month of Ramadan and life will be back to normal for the rest of the Muslim calendar. No more abstaining from eating and drinking during the day and no more abstinence from mindless thoughts of sex and perversions, you can take your wives anytime of the day you like and do not have to worry about being arrested when you eat out at the coffee shops during the day. You are free again to think ill of others exploit and take advantage of anything and everything that would bring you profit, yes life is back to the way it has always been before and after the Month of Ramadan. So why do we do it? Why do all Muslims if not most observe this third pillar of Islam.
It is not all that clear cut and grossly simple as it sounds as most Muslims will still dwell upon the lingering effects of the fasting and spiritual practices performed during the fasting month and most who sincerely sis carry out the call of this observances of the Five Pillars of Islam will no doubt more than benefit for themselves heightened spiritual awakening and possibly turn into either extremist of fundamentalists getting the urge to share with others their spiritual awakening. No matter, the fasting Month does have one effect or another to those Muslims who carry it out with genuine sincerity, it is like getting your vehicle overhauled and you mental alignment taken care of  in the process. Nothing is more affected by the fasting month  than the ego and the larger or stronger the ego the harder it will be for one to fulfill the obligation with ease. The most challenging form of torture that the ego will put forth against one's fasting is sexual or sensual temptations or allurements. This is the ego's main roadside attraction to derail the fasting followed by smoking if one is a heavy smoker and the list will go on down the track as the day wore on for a month.
Yes, man's old buddies, Greed, Hate and Delusion, they all raise their heads with gusto to derail one from the fasting track and most people succumb to sleep as an escape from having to bear the 12 hours more or less time before one is free again to serve one's demonic self without any reservations for it being a holy month, or so it seems. What a practice! It is not only to develop one's self discipline but more so it forces one to comply along with millions if not billions of other Muslims to take an account of one self and overcome any form of ailments or weaknesses that is revealed in one character and every Muslim will answer for his deed or misdeed to his Lord, the All Seeing and Knowing. So sneak away and smoke all you want or fornicate in the privacy of your car away form sight but at the back of your mind as a Muslim you will still feel that in all that you do that goes against the Will of your Lord is your character f;law and all you need to do to heal your perverted mind is observe the fasting with genuine interest.
The Muslim God, we call Him Allah and you may too, is a Tester and he will relentlessly test your will power by placing in your mental path all kinds of perverted thoughts and vexations to see if you got what it takes to becoming a 'Good Muslim'.Here i fail with flying colors almost all the time, but I believe in His Power of Forgiveness and no matter how far i wander from my fasting track I would not commit to breaking it wilfully, I will continue on fasting till the end of the day simply because I feel strongly that my Lord is also a Compassionate and Forgiving God. I took this fasting month along with my Buddhist practice of 'Bare Attention" and Mindfulness Practice, the result i find is quite an awakening experience. I find the fasting moth to be more tolerable and the impact it has on my mind has been very challenging to say the least. I have not smoked a cigarette ever since the beginning of the fasting month and touched no liquor. Thoughts of sex and women still haunts me but not as rampant and most easily dismissed as mere vexations and I did my art more seriously and with better results. It has been quite sometime now that i truly enjoy doing my painting. I am more accepting and forgiving of myself and more so towards others and can feel the love and respect i get in return. I fell over all somewhat 'cleaner' about who i am, genuine and sincere in my dealings with others and in return receives the same; perhaps it being the Month of Ramadan.