What is the meaning of "weaning the souls" in the hadith (Fasting is the weaning of the souls)?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the meaning of the phrase "weaning" that appears in the author's statement that fasting is the weaning of the souls?
Answer:
Weaning is leaving behind what is customary, and from this comes the weaning of a nursing child: leaving the thing that is customary and beloved to the soul. Do you know what weaning is?
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the meaning of the phrase "weaning" that appears in the author's statement that fasting is the weaning of the souls?
Answer:
Weaning is leaving behind what is customary, and from this comes the weaning of a nursing child: leaving the thing that is customary and beloved to the soul. Do you know what weaning is?
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/779] ما معنى "فطم النفوس" في حديث (الصوم فطم للنفوس)؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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