From the Captivity of the Self to the Freedom of the Fast
The body provides boundaries for a person. It tells us where to start and where to stop. This is the first experience of boundaries that a person has in their childhood. In the same way that the human mind feels that it is buried in one's body, it either perceives the body as its "house" or as a foreign place. The nafs (ego) and the crippled modern person have problems with their bodies. The bod...