What is your opinion of a man who watches television and looks at women while he is fasting?

The questioner : Noble father, what is your opinion of a man who is fasting and, during the day in Ramadan, watches television, listens to singing, looks at women, and speaks indecent words and the like during the day in Ramadan, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh : I say: Some fasters get nothing from their fasting but hunger and thirst. In reality, such a person has not fasted, even though his liability is cleared and we do not obligate him to make up the fast, but in truth he has not fasted. The evidence is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): What is the benefit of fasting? But you should advise him, may Allah reward you with good, and say: My brother, this is a blessed month, a month of obedience, a month of mindfulness of Allah, and you do not know whether it will return to you after this year. Advise him, yes, after that.