Sharing pictures of break fast tables in Morocco..a bad habit with various damages

The month of Ramadan in Morocco is often accompanied by an increase in the rate of publishing pictures of breakfast tables on social networking sites, and various dishes are sweeping the screens of smart phones.

At a time when communication platforms are becoming an open table, other groups of society find it difficult to provide the necessities of eating, especially in light of the wave of high prices that the world is witnessing, which exacerbates the negative psychological impact.

Commenting on this rush to publish pictures of tables in Ramadan, psychologist Othman Zimo said: “What draws attention during the month of Ramadan is people’s excessive interest in food, and the question that arises strongly is, why do people care about food more than other months and boast about publishing pictures of tables? the food?”.
According to Zimo, Ramadan, in principle, is a month far from bragging, excessive consumption of food, and crowding in stores, but the fasting person “focuses in particular on the hunger that he feels throughout the day and the accompanying thinking about food and water, meaning that fasting corresponds to it in The minds are hungry in the first place, and the table is full at the end of the day.”

And the psychologist added in an interview with “Sky News Arabia” that “what explains the importance of food from the psychological aspect during the month of Ramadan, is that some may fall into promiscuity, backbiting, or disobedience whatever it is, but they cannot eat before breakfast time, and this What gives food great value to the fasting person, breaking the Ramadan fast without a legitimate reason remains for the fasting person a great sin that exceeds all other sins, and from here comes the value of eating and this delinquent desire to photograph the tables.
For Zimo, “breaking the fast after sunset becomes a reward for a long day of fasting, and for this reason some exaggerate the preparation of the breakfast table as if they are celebrating a day of freezing and abstaining from food, which becomes more of a desire than a basic need for the body.”

This explains, according to the psychological expert, “the communication sites are full of pictures of tables, and there is a lot of talk about food during the days of Ramadan.”

He highlighted in this regard, that the fasting person should “refrain from publishing pictures of the dining table, in order to preserve the feelings of others, for each one breaks his fast according to his capabilities, and the pictures may lead some to fall into comparison and feel shortcomings or dissatisfaction with what his table carries of food.”

He explained that: “Sometimes a person may have to borrow in order to satisfy his hunger for foodstuffs to furnish the breakfast table without taking into account the nutritional value of this huge amount of food and drinks, thus contributing to the exhaustion of his health on the one hand, and weakening his purchasing power on the other hand.”

Zimo concluded: “In light of this extravagance, which is controlled by (food craving), there are some disgraceful manifestations and behaviors that contradict what the obligation of fasting brought to the surface, as well as excessive eating and mismanagement.