The greatest advantage of fasting is that we get to experience our helplessness. Ijz means helplessness. We discover that we are helpless. This is the greatest benefit of fasting. In normal conditions, we eat and drink, come and go. Everything happens as we want. We sleep or remain awake. Our work follows a set routine. We don’t get to experience our helplessness. While fasting, you are made to compulsively experience that you are helpless. If you don’t eat for a long time, you will die. If you don’t drink water for a long time, you will die. If you don’t breathe in the air, you will die. The real position of a human being is that he is helpless. Fasting helps us experience this helplessness. This is indeed the greatest experience one can have.