Ramadan, a Training Session to Develop Taqwa

A major difference between the Islamic Fast and mere starvation is that the Ramaḍān fast is an exercise in self-discipline involving food intake, use of tongue, hands, eyes, ears, thoughts, and sex, etc.

Many of the undesirable habits and traits of the previous months are automatically corrected during this month. Some of us, God forbid, may have been habituated to a particular type of wrong-doing e.g. gambling, smoking, drinking, backbiting, fornication, fraud, hot temper, domestic violence, etc. Fasting breaks that habit either gradually for some or immediately for those of us with a stronger will power, especially if supported by constant supplications in seeking Allah’s assistance. To do so, it needs faith and determination. The usual antidote is to put an entirely opposite thought in the mind contained in a Qur'anic verse, for immediate implementation, which would block and displace the evil trend.

Thank You Allah (God)

 

 

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The Fruit of Sawm (Fasting)

 

 

 

In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

         

Empathizing with the hunger of the poor:

   

The fasting person voluntarily performs acts of worship and tastes hunger which the poor are obliged to taste against their will.

     

Though the fasting person feels hunger, it is a voluntary act carried out for a limited period of time in order to draw closer to Allah the Almighty. 

However, the deprived are obliged to taste hunger against their will and for long periods of time.

        

     

Restraining the self from foolishness:

   

Sawm restrains the fasting person from the foolishness of the self and its desires.

         

Furthermore, the fasting person experiences an urging tendency to avoid what is improper.

    

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