Omar Suleiman

So you just feel great.

And it's hard to explain to someone that doesn't do it because it sounds like torture to people, right?

What in the world are you doing?

At four o'clock on a hot Texas day, not eating or drinking, you're probably dehydrated and cranky, have a caffeine headache, and you probably can't wait for this month to be over.

But in reality, you talk to Muslims, their favorite time of the year is Ramadan.

You feel amazing.

You feel absolutely incredible because you taste a different type of consumption.

You feed your soul for a change.

And in that process, you connect with God in a way that you simply could not without the distractions of the day-to-day throughout the year.

Now it's good that it's one month of the year because it's honestly physically taxing, right?

So it gives you a chance to experience it for that one month, but then you're encouraged to fast a few days of the year as well outside of the month of Ramadan to keep that connection.

Well, I think the hardest part is physically.

Is it physical or is it the spiritual?

I mean.

So as Ramadan goes on, your acts of worship increase.

So in the last 10 nights of Ramadan, there is an intense period of prayer throughout the night.

So every night in Ramadan, we have something called the Taraweeh prayers.

The Taraweeh prayers are about an hour, hour and a half of prayer outside of the five daily prayers.

So the mosques are packed every night in Ramadan.

The last 10 nights of Ramadan, people will engage in prayer throughout the entire night.