Was fasting obligatory upon the previous nations?
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Question:
Among the questions that came in, Abu Muhammad asks: Was fasting known among the previous nations? And did it exist at that time?
Answer:
Yes, yes. This is in the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:183] It is written and obligatory upon the previous nations, even though the nature of their fasting differs from our fasting. Yes.
Among the questions that came in, Abu Muhammad asks: Was fasting known among the previous nations? And did it exist at that time?
Answer:
Yes, yes. This is in the saying of Allah the Exalted:
O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4483] هل كان الصوم مفروضًا على الأمم السابقة؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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