The month of Ramadan is a training course is self-purification. It helps one to lead a successful life keeping one’s negative feelings under control. Negative feelings are the greatest obstacle to human progress. Fasting serves to purify one’s personality on positive lines.
Efforts to deprive others of their freedom are futile. The only possible attitude to follow is of patience. That is, even when faced with bitterness and unpleasantness from others, you must continue your life’s journey by avoidance.
The feeling of ijz relates to God. One who becomes truly modest before God, finds this same spirit making him modest before human beings. In relation to God, this feeling is called ijz, while in relation to man this feeling is called modesty.
Imaan is another name for the realization of God—the realization of God Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of the infinite universe, with astonishing power. One who discovers that all greatness belongs to God understands that his own helplessness is a trial for him.
