{"id":2659,"date":"2021-04-02T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:33:18","slug":"benefits-of-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/benefits-of-fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear brothers we carry on from last week\u2019s reminder on Fasting.\nAs mentioned last week the 183rd<\/sup> ayat of Sura Baqara mentions\nfasting. This is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFasting is prescribed for you as\nit was prescribed for those before you, that you may attain taqwaa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spoke last week of the benefit of attaining God-consciousness\nor taqwa through fasting. But what of the other benefits of this blessed act?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The obvious benefit of fasting are the rewards we get from\nAllah SWT. The first reminder is regarding fasting in the month of Ramadan. The\nimam mentioned the hadith in which the Prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He who observes fasting\nduring the month of Ramadan with Faith while seeking its reward from Allah,\nwill have his past sins forgiven.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers, as we can see from this hadith, the reward of\nfasting every Ramadan is immense and a real motivator to strive through the\nnext 30 days and be the best that we can be in our worship, actions and the abstinence\nwe perform during the daylight hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But alongside this, there is an even greater reward worth\nremembering. The Prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndeed your Lord said: \u2018Every\ngood deed is rewarded with ten of the same up to seven hundred times over,\nexcept for fasting. Fasting is for Me, and I shall reward for it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers, we are being told here that the reward for\nfasting is with Allah SWT himself. In other words, this reward is greater than\nany measure that we are able to comprehend. It is a reward that is a secret, a\nreward that is a mystery kept by your Creator and a reward that will only be\nknown to you when you return to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These facts alone should compel each of us to commit ourselves\nto fasting, both in the month of Ramadan and outside of this month as much as we\nare able to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside these immense benefits are also the benefits of\nthe dunya. From health benefits of fasting which have resulted in international\nbest-sellers of authors who have promoted fasting as a healthy lifestyle, to psychological\nbenefits of fasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the benefits often overlooked is referenced in the\nfollowing hadith. The Prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cthose of you who can support a\nwife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves\nyou from immorality; but those who cannot should devote themselves to fasting,\nfor it is a means of suppressing sexual desire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear brothers, we live in a hyper-sexualised society and so\nthis remedy is required now more than ever. Allah SWT is fully aware of our weaknesses\nand He has made fasting a solution for one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so with the month of Ramadan approaching fast, there is\nno better time to get into one of the best habits for our bodies, our minds and\nmost importantly, for our souls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear brothers we carry on from last week\u2019s reminder on Fasting. As mentioned last week the 183rd ayat of Sura Baqara mentions fasting. This is translated to say: \u201cFasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may attain taqwaa.\u201d We spoke last week of the benefit of attaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69,70],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-fasting","tag-ramadan"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}