The Best Voluntary Fasting
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Question:
Also, among the questions that reached us, this questioner says: What is the best voluntary fasting?
Answer:
For every obligatory act, Allah has made a voluntary act of the same kind. So prayer has a voluntary act of its kind, such as the Dhuha and the Witr. Zakah has a voluntary act of its kind, such as charity. Likewise, fasting. Every act of worship has a voluntary act of its kind, as an addition to it and to make up for any deficiency or shortcoming that occurs in it.
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah said to the angels: "Look, do you find any voluntary act from My servant? Then complete with it what he neglected of his obligatory acts, then [complete] the zakah, then the deeds are taken according to that." And the best fasting is the fasting of Dawud (peace be upon him): he would fast one day and break the fast the next. Also, the days on which our Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to fast, such as Mondays and Thursdays, the white days, and the six days of Shawwal, as well as the fasting of 'Arafah and the fasting of 'Ashura. And the minimum is to fast three days of every month.
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: My close friend, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), advised me to do three things:Sahih al-Bukhari 1981. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Also, among the questions that reached us, this questioner says: What is the best voluntary fasting?
Answer:
For every obligatory act, Allah has made a voluntary act of the same kind. So prayer has a voluntary act of its kind, such as the Dhuha and the Witr. Zakah has a voluntary act of its kind, such as charity. Likewise, fasting. Every act of worship has a voluntary act of its kind, as an addition to it and to make up for any deficiency or shortcoming that occurs in it.
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The first deed for which a servant will be held accountable on the Day of Resurrection is the prayer. If he has completed it, it will be recorded for him as complete, and if he has not completed it,
أول عمل يحاسب به العبد يوم القيامة الصلاة فإن كان كملها كتبت له كاملة، وإن لم يكن أكملهاAbu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: My close friend, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), advised me to do three things:
to fast three days a month; (2) to pray two rak`at of Duha prayer (forenoon prayer); and (3) to pray witr before sleeping.
صيام ثلاثة أيام من كل شهر وركعتي الضحى وأن أوتر قبل أن أنامThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7534 — youtube.com (8:08)
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