The virtue of fasting the white days, Mondays, and Thursdays
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, which is better: fasting the white days or Mondays and Thursdays?
Answer:
Both have virtue, whether it is Monday and Thursday of the week, or the three days of every month. Fasting the three days of every month is equivalent in virtue to standing in prayer for the whole month, because one good deed is rewarded ten times over, so each day counts as ten days. Thus, the one who fasts three days of the month is as if he fasted the entire month. Fasting Monday and Thursday is also virtuous because they are the two days on which deeds are presented to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). So I do not see a preference for one of these fasts over the other, because each has its own virtue. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, which is better: fasting the white days or Mondays and Thursdays?
Answer:
Both have virtue, whether it is Monday and Thursday of the week, or the three days of every month. Fasting the three days of every month is equivalent in virtue to standing in prayer for the whole month, because one good deed is rewarded ten times over, so each day counts as ten days. Thus, the one who fasts three days of the month is as if he fasted the entire month. Fasting Monday and Thursday is also virtuous because they are the two days on which deeds are presented to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). So I do not see a preference for one of these fasts over the other, because each has its own virtue. Yes.
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