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As Muslims embark on another yearly session of Ramadan, Owolabi Salis has called on the faithful to abstain only from food, but not water.
The spiritual leader, The Soul Maker’s Ministry, Worldwide, and gubernatorial contestant in Lagos State in 2019, on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), warned that fasting without water is injurious not only to the body, but also the soul.
“Apart from constituting a militating cog to meaningful spiritual progress, fasting without food and water incurs quite a debilitating toll on the general physical health. It is like killing yourself by instalment, especially in terms of the severe kidney damage it inflicts on the body, apart from several other malignant infirmities that irresistibly come on through this grossly uninformed age-old mode of fasting.
“However, when you fast by denying yourself only of food while getting along with water in the process, you reap maximum advantage obviously because fasting has a tremendous healing and curative effect.
“In fact, it is in that event that you can truly affirm that fasting is amazingly medicinal and therapeutic; but not when you deny yourself of water, because you will surely be dying by instalment as you increasingly imperil and ravage your health to increasingly disastrous consequences.
“It is good to fast or abstain from certain things but not water and air. If I may express, firmly but politely, the rules of Ramadan were man made and the makers were unable to perceive the dire spiritual consequences of fasting against water.
“This was, indeed, unfortunate, simply because you gain more benefits from fasting when you take only water while fasting. Our body is made of soil, water and air which include the air soul which is the mysterious energy or fire that drives us. When the air soul leaves your body, it means you are dead.
“Life is about body and soul. The soul is deposited in you directly by the Soul Maker when your mother conceived you and the custodian of the soul is your heart which coordinates with the head to manage the body.
The principal food of the soul is water. In other words, your soul needs water to function properly and serve as your unseen doctor. Lack of water in the body has killed many. What some people need when they feel sick is just water to make the soul function properly.
Having water in your body heals a lot of ailments. Now imagine you have this vital fluid water in your body while fasting, that implies you definitely will get more healing.
“Natural air and water are very important for the sustenance of our souls. Fasting against water is like fasting against air.
Fasting against water is unspiritual because water serves as the motivating spirit to the body. To that extent, therefore, fasting against water is injurious to your soul and spirit.
“Statistics are replete with innumerable instances in which lots of Muslims and Christians have incurred chronic kidney problems apparently caused by fasting against water and going further to compound the problem by breaking their fasting with sweet drinks,” Salis said.
