QUESTION: Concerning observance of the Fast by people
engaged in hard labour during the month of fasting.
ANSWER: Such people are excused from fasting; however, in
order to show respect to the law of God and for the exalted station of the
Fast, it is most commendable and fitting to eat with frugality and in private.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Questions and Answers’; ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
