Ramadan and restraint!
The most attractive Iftar offer for the last few years has been Pizza Hut's Ramadan Feast “Eat as much as you can” for pizzas and soft drinks at a definite price. A very good business idea indeed we jump at it at every chance that comes our way. Pizza Hut buzzes with customers, almost to a bursting point at Iftar .
The fundamental purpose of Ramadan is to make us practice restraint and prudence in our actions and we're making such a good show of it that we've reduced it to mindless gobbling up of food after starving the whole day.
Neither is the said food good for the body after daylong fasting nor is eating like an animal and the money would have been better spent if donated for Iftar to any of the countless destitute whom we encounter all the time. This is just one instance of how far we have moved away from our religion, Islam, which speaks of peace and ways we can bring it about in this chaotic world.
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