fasting rules
When to abstain
Fasting rules are guidelines governing when and what people may eat during religious observances.
Different traditions have different rules: Catholics abstain from meat on certain days, Muslims eat nothing between dawn and sunset during Ramadan, Jews avoid all food and drink on Yom Kippur.
The fasting rules allow water but not solid food.
- LentChristian fasting season
- RamadanNinth Islamic month
- holy monthReligiously significant period
- NavratriNine-night Hindu festival
- iftarSunset meal ending fast
sunrise to sunset · dawn to dusk · Ash Wednesday · abstinence · dry fast · no food · Yom Kippur · autophagy · Good Friday · religious observance · prayer rituals · intermittent · breaking fast · Vishnu · Passover · exemption · Hindu calendar · halal
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
- church lawcanon law, church court, papal bull, papal bulls, papal decree
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, obedience
- RamadanRamadan, iftar, holy month, breaking fast, crescent moon
- FastingRamadan, Yom Kippur, water fast, breaking fast, dry fast
- Mosaic lawMoses, Mosaic law, Ten Commandments, tablets of stone, commandment
abstinence vs. indulgence
fasting rulesgluttony
Greedy excess in consumption
indulgence · binge eating · gorging · overindulgence · all-you-can-eat