The Effect of Fasting on the Human Soul
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner, Abu 'Ammar, says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the effect of fasting on the human soul, if we exclude the feeling of hunger and the pain of the poor?
Answer:
The feeling of fasting is taqwa (mindfulness of Allah). Allah the Exalted said, “And that you fast is better for you.” He, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:[Al-Baqarah 2:183] Fasting causes taqwa, taqwa of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He. So if he leaves his food and drink and leaves his wife, he is rewarded for that, if his intention is fasting for Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Yes.
May Allah reward you. This questioner, Abu 'Ammar, says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the effect of fasting on the human soul, if we exclude the feeling of hunger and the pain of the poor?
Answer:
The feeling of fasting is taqwa (mindfulness of Allah). Allah the Exalted said, “And that you fast is better for you.” He, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:
O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous -
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/296 — archive.org (6:00)
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