Fasting in the Holy Month Of Ramadan

  

Fasting in the Holy Month Of Ramadan

1. Fasting in Islam is obligatory for believers only.

2. The believer should be an adult, not a child.

3. The believer should be healthy.

4. The believer should not be a traveller of long distances.

5. The believer should be physically and spiritually clean.

6. The believer should abstain from food and water from dawn to dusk.

7. The believer should abstain from sexual relations from dawn to dusk.

8. The believer should not see evil, listen to evil, speak evil, do evil, or promote evil.

9. The believer should refrain from quarrelling.

10. The believer should spend time reciting the Holy Qur’an and remembering God.

11. The believer should exercise patience, kindness and generosity.

12. The believer should offer prayers on time.

13. The believer should not fast to show off.

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Fasting is a shield (or a screen or a shelter). So, the person observing fasting should avoid sexual relation with his wife and should not behave foolishly and impudently and if somebody fights with him or abuses him, he should tell him twice, 'I am fasting." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, the smell coming out from the mouth of a fasting person is better in the sight of Allah than the smell of musk. (Allah says about the fasting person), 'He has left his food, drink and desires for My sake. The fast is for Me. So I will reward (the fasting person) for it and the reward of good deeds is multiplied ten times.

(1894, Sahil Bukhari )