Fasting
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:28 am
"O' mankind! Fasting and namaaz have been made compulsory upon you because you are afflicted by sinfulness" - Imam Ahmed al-Mastuur (AS)
Ikhwaan-ul-Safa.
"Invalid is the fast of he that disobeys the Imam, and there is no fast for the slave that has run away - until he returns, and there is no fast for the disobedient wife until she repents and there is no fast for the disobedient child until he becomes obedient." - Imam Ja'far al Sadiq (AS) Kitaabul Sawme wal e`tikaaf - Daaimul Islam Vol. I
"Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a prescribed obligation every year. The least (among the prerequisites) by which the believer's obligation to fast is fulfilled is the sincere resolve of his heart to fast and to renounce eating, drinking and sexual intercourse throughout the day. The believer should extend this devotion to all the limbs and avoid all things forbidden by Allah, his lord in order to gain thereby complete communion with him. If he acts accordingly then he has indeed fulfilled his prescribed obligation." - Imam Ja'far al Sadiq (AS)
"A man who does not guard his tongue, his hearing, his sight and his limbs (from forbidden acts) during his fasting has indeed not fasted at all." - Fatema binte Rasulallah (AS)
"Imam Jafer al Sadiq (AS) used to tell his children, that when the month of Ramadan comes one should become assiduous (in worship) for it is during this month that provisions for livelihood are distributed (by Allah) that fates of men are determined and a goodly company(from among the righteous) will be determined (to show up before) the lord and in it is a night good works wherein are better then those in a thousand months." - Imam Ja'far al Sadiq (AS)
"Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a shield against the fire." - Maulana Ali (AS)
"Zakat is levied on everything and the zakat of the body is fasting" - Rasulallah (SA)
"The sleep of the fasting one is worship and his breath the glorification of Allah." - Rasulallah (SA)
Ikhwaan-ul-Safa.
"Invalid is the fast of he that disobeys the Imam, and there is no fast for the slave that has run away - until he returns, and there is no fast for the disobedient wife until she repents and there is no fast for the disobedient child until he becomes obedient." - Imam Ja'far al Sadiq (AS) Kitaabul Sawme wal e`tikaaf - Daaimul Islam Vol. I
"Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a prescribed obligation every year. The least (among the prerequisites) by which the believer's obligation to fast is fulfilled is the sincere resolve of his heart to fast and to renounce eating, drinking and sexual intercourse throughout the day. The believer should extend this devotion to all the limbs and avoid all things forbidden by Allah, his lord in order to gain thereby complete communion with him. If he acts accordingly then he has indeed fulfilled his prescribed obligation." - Imam Ja'far al Sadiq (AS)
"A man who does not guard his tongue, his hearing, his sight and his limbs (from forbidden acts) during his fasting has indeed not fasted at all." - Fatema binte Rasulallah (AS)
"Imam Jafer al Sadiq (AS) used to tell his children, that when the month of Ramadan comes one should become assiduous (in worship) for it is during this month that provisions for livelihood are distributed (by Allah) that fates of men are determined and a goodly company(from among the righteous) will be determined (to show up before) the lord and in it is a night good works wherein are better then those in a thousand months." - Imam Ja'far al Sadiq (AS)
"Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a shield against the fire." - Maulana Ali (AS)
"Zakat is levied on everything and the zakat of the body is fasting" - Rasulallah (SA)
"The sleep of the fasting one is worship and his breath the glorification of Allah." - Rasulallah (SA)