Do not be surprised by the title ... and do not hurry ... Fasting is a law that God Almighty has enacted for His servants in order to purify and purify, and it was imposed on Muslims as it was imposed on the previous nations according to the words of God Almighty: (O you who believe, the Book of the Day Before you, you may fear (verse 183)
And the ancient Egyptians, as a nation of nations, fasted for them as it was established for others ...
There are academic scientific studies, through which the researchers concluded that the ancient Egyptians knew the ritual of fasting, and practiced it on their festivals as a kind of closeness to the idol.
Their fasting has varied, between duty and desirable and voluntary, as the ancient Egyptians knew fasting three days of each month in order to maintain their health !!. They were also fasting to celebrate the feasts of the Nile fulfillment, the harvest and the beginning of the New Year, and there was another type of fasting, called interruption fasting, and it continued for 70 days when it was forbidden to eat anything other than water and vegetables.
And fasting was divided into two parts: the fast of the priests and the fast of the people, as follows:
1- The fasting of priests: It starts from the time that the hermit joins the service of the temple; he must fast for seven consecutive days without food or drink, in order to purify the flesh of the body and the soul and to prepare him for the spiritual tasks he received, and some researchers mentioned that this section of fasting may extend to 42 days !!
And the priest passes through it in stages, first by fasting 10 days on meat and wine, then following that he teaches his duties with holy matters, then he resumes fasting for another 10 days in which every food in which the soul abstains and feeds on barley bread and water, to rise to a higher stage in spiritual tasks, Then in the last 10 days he abstains from all kinds of food and water.
The fasting of the priests began from sunrise to sunset, and included the indirect women and spend it in purification, asceticism, and worship.
2- As for the fasting of the people, it was for four days of each year that begins when the seventeenth day of the third month of the flood season comes, and it is a complete fast in which the fasting person refuses from food, drink and women from sunrise until sunset.
Happy new year, on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan
