Comparing Voluntary Fasting and Seeking Knowledge
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is better for a Muslim, to fast voluntarily or to seek knowledge? Because if he fasts, he feels weak and leaves off seeking knowledge?
Answer:
If fasting affects his seeking of knowledge, then seeking knowledge is better. But if it does not affect it, he combines the two virtues. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is better for a Muslim, to fast voluntarily or to seek knowledge? Because if he fasts, he feels weak and leaves off seeking knowledge?
Answer:
If fasting affects his seeking of knowledge, then seeking knowledge is better. But if it does not affect it, he combines the two virtues. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين17-06-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:13:55)
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