3. The Reward of Fasting Prophet Muhammad (saw) said that Allah (swt) said : All the deeds of man are for himself except for fasting, which is for Me and I shall reward it Myself. Al-Bukhari, Al-Fath, 1904
4. Why is Ramadan important to Muslims? It is the best of months The Quran was revealed in this month It is a month of Blessing, Mercy, and Forgiveness The doors of heaven are opened The doors of hell are closed The shaytaan is chained up Rewards are multiplied from 10-700 times There is one night (laylatul-qadr) that is better than 1000 months
5. Why is fasting prescribed for Muslims? Fasting is prescribed to us: so that we can learn how to appreciate the things in life Allah gives us. It stops us from doing haram things. Fasting enables us to control our desires. It also makes us feel compassionate toward the poor.
6. Why is fasting prescribed for Muslims? Fasting weakens the whispers of shaytan. It HUMILIATES him. That is because the Shaytaan “flows through the son of Adam like blood” but fasting narrows the passages through which the Shaytaan flows, so his influence grows less.
13. Whoever fasts one day, seeking the pleasure of Allah, if that is the last day of his life, he will enter Paradise. (Reported by Ahmad, 5/391) In paradise there is a gate called al-Rayyan, through which who will fast will enter, and no one will enter it except them; when they have entered, it will be locked, and no-one else will enter through it. (Al-Bukhari, fath, no. 1797) Whoever fasts one day for the sake of Allah, Allah will remove him a distance of seventy years’ from the Hell-fire. (Muslim, 2/808)
14. Keep your tongue wet with the remembrance (zikr) of Allah” – Tirmidhi
15. Life is too short to waste Time in Useless things
