Day 4: Shielding Days

 

Ramadan is transformative; hence it is obligatory. It's a purposeful tool. Those who accomplish its goal are successful and are specially rewarded by Allah Himself.  

 Fasting is a means of cleansing our body and purifying our soul. The body and soul go through a process of sanitation and discipline. These protects us from harm and from being susceptible to the whips of the Shaytan. It is very good for us, but out of Allah’s mercy, he has restricted this sanitisation to only a month.  “(Fasting is for a) prescribed number of days” (Qur’an 2:184) The fixed days of 29 or 30 days are adequate to help develop positive habits and not to weakening our resolve and endurance.

 Allah's Messenger (PBUH) said: "Fasting is a shield. So the fasting person should avoid obscene speech and should not behave foolishly and ignorantly, and if somebody fights with him or insults him, he should tell him twice, ‘I am fasting.’ By the One in Whose hand is my soul, the smell that comes from the mouth of a fasting person is better in the sight of Allah than the scent of musk. (Allah says about the fasting person), ‘He has given up his food, drink and desires for My sake. The fast is for Me and I will reward (the fasting person) for it and the reward of good deeds is multiplied ten times’.” (Bukhari)

According to the scholar, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawzi:

Fasting has an amazing effect in

1.     preserving our outer limbs and inner capacities

2.     protecting the soul from being overtaken by destructive components

3.     it has a remarkable effect in emptying out all the harmful things that prevent the soul from being healthy

4.     it guards and protects the health of the person’s heart and body limbs

5.     it returns to the soul what the hands of the desires has taken from it

So fasting is from the greatest ways of improving one’s Taqwaa.

 

- Contributed by AbdulGhaniy Arije. 2021

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