Request:
Assalamu Alaykum,
Please ask Mawlana Ash-Shaykh Hisham to pray that whatever I’m asking which is good to be answered, especially one thing which I’m asking above all others.
Also please ask for some advice about Ramadan. I’ve got a distinction so far in the taught part of my masters, but I’m not able to do much work in Ramadan on my thesis and I need to change this immediately. However, I am finding it hard especially since I’m maintaing my 1 hour excercise a day which I need as much mentally as physically. If I were more efficient I would be able to fit everything in, but I feel fatigued from the fast and my ability to push myself to this level of efficiency is being diminished leading me to feel lazy or prone to having a ‘break’.
Thanks, Assalamu Alaykum.
Response:
wa `alaykum salam,
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham will pray for you. A break may be just what you need to regroup. Above the mental and physical is the spiritual for which we were created. Fatigue is normal when they are not in line with the latter. As the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) said, “None of you [truly] believes until his likes and dislikes are in line with what I have brought.”
Hajj Gibril Haddad
