Re: Fasting without liquids such as water unhealthy?
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I was waiting for someone to question the questioner. The purpose of fasting as described in Islam is for spiritual health not for physical health. That is the downfall of the argument of those skeptics. They cannot understand why anyone would willingly want to weaken themselves physically. Of course Muslims can, because by doing so it reduces our carnal appetites.
We get more agitated but are required to control our temper during Ramadan, in basics we are making our desires subservient.
Sun Szu said, do not give your troops too many luxuries or it shall make them lazy and arrogant.
By keeping people in relative hardship people are made better. By doing so to oneself you can state that you have lower dependencies than those who are not used to living without food or water.
Fasting is so we can become close to our Lord.
It is not to say that there is no scientific solution however. Allah (SWT) states that religion is not to be a burden on us. The basis for not consuming water in a fasting day does not contradict scientific recommendations. Scientific recommendations talk about a minimum of 1 litre of water should be consumed per day, but that is achievable during the sahoor and iftar times, we do not need to drink water between those times according to current scientific research, it is only based on an average water consumption per 24 hours basis.