Ruling on discontinuing the performance of recommended acts

This questioner says: If a person fasts some voluntary fasts, such as the six days of Shawwal, or Ashura, or Mondays and Thursdays, and he fasted them during a certain period, if he then stops fasting, does he sin, or is he required to continue?
Answer: These acts of worship are recommended voluntary acts, not obligatory. So if a person fasts the day of Ashura, or three days of every month, or Mondays and Thursdays, or fasts six days of Shawwal in some years and then leaves this off, there is no blame on him. These are recommended matters, not obligatory. So whoever does them has a reward, and whoever leaves them off owes nothing. However, it is recommended for the believer to persist in worship and strive to maintain the good deed, for Allah loves the deed that its owner persists in, as in the authentic hadith where the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is good for a person to persist in fasting Mondays and Thursdays, or in fasting six days of Shawwal every year, or in fasting the day of Ashura. All of this is good, but it is not obligatory for him. Whenever he wishes to leave it off, or is occupied with something else, there is no blame on him, and praise be to Allah.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.