Lessons Learned from Fasting

Question:
May Allah reward you. Among the questions that came in, one says: What are the most prominent lessons that the fasting Muslim benefits from in this blessed month, O Shaykh Salih?

Answer:
The lessons are many, and praise be to Allah. The greatest of them is patience, for the Muslim is patient with the pain of hunger and thirst in obedience to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Another is the increased energy for worship.
The fasting person is more energetic in worship than others. Another lesson is that fasting restrains a person from actions that are not befitting him, especially forbidden and disliked actions, because he is fasting.
Another lesson is that fasting also restrains him from idle talk, quarreling with people, and letting his tongue run loose, as well as from backbiting and talebearing. It also restrains his sight from looking at what is not permissible to look at.
It restrains his hearing from listening to what is not permissible to listen to, such as songs, musical instruments, and flutes, and what is shown on degrading screens. So fasting protects him from all these prohibited things. Even if someone insults him or curses him, he does not respond to him, but rather says, "I am fasting, I am fasting." Yes.