Thread by @rayhanburhan

“The arrival of Ramaḍān is the reason for beginning the fast, and so Allāh opens the gates of the Garden. The Garden is the veil. The fast is part of veiled action which only Allāh knows because it is non-action. It is not existential action so that it might appear to the eye...

...or be done by the limbs. It is veiled from all except Allāh. Only Allāh knows it in the person fasting. The person fasting is the person so named by the divine law, not
the hungry person.

“Allāh locks the gates of the fire.” When the gates of the fire are locked, it turns back on itself and its heat is multiplied on it and it consumes itself. The person fasting is like that with his nature. When he fasts, the gates of the fire of his nature are shut.

He experiences more heat by the fast since moist things are not being utilized. He feels the pain of that in his belly. His appetite for food is increased because he imagines that he will experience relief through it. Therefore the fire of his appetite is strengthened...

...by locking the door to the reception of food and drink.

The satans are chained. They are the attribute of distance. The person fasting is near to Allāh by the attribute of timeless self-reliance. He is involved in an act of worship which has no like, and by that, he is near..

...to the attribute of the One about whom it is said: “There is not like Him anything.” When you have this attribute, the satans are chained for you. It is related in Tradition: “Satan flows in the son of Ādam as blood flows, so blocks his canals by hunger and thirst,” that is,..

...these means are specified for him against Satan’s desire for to be involved in excess. Excess means “what is more.””
— Shaykh al Akbar Muḥyi ‘d-Dīn ibn al ʿArabī qaddasa Allāhu sirrah, al Futūḥāt al Makkīyyah