Yusuf Chambers: Another thing which is being bothering me for sometime is that fact that fasting is one of the pillars of Islam, correct? Now, but is there anything which..ah… differentiates the act of worship, fasting, the pillar from the other 4 pillars, perhaps?
Dr. Zakir: As I mentioned earlier that there are 5 pillars of Islam and all of them are important but the differentiation between Saum, fasting as compared to other pillars is that the other pillars of Islam whether it be Salaah whether it be Zakaat whether it be Hajj it can be done by a person to show to the others for Riya, to be seen or to be heard. You know, may be I want to show myself that I am a very pious person so I am offering Salaah to show to the people, you know, I am going for Hajj to make a show of it can be possible, can be possible I give charity so that people will say I am a charitable person for show but fasting cannot be done for Riya, cannot be done to show other people, why? A person can easily fast and when no one is watching he can have food, he can have drink. If a person who truly fasts and abstains from things that break the fast, he is doing it only for Allah and no one else. So that’s the difference between Saum and the other pillars of Islam. And our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws) said, its mentioned in Sahih Bukhari Vol. no. 3 in the Book of Fasting Hadith no. 1904, our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws) said;
“Allah says that all the deeds done by the sons of Adam, they are for themselves only. He does it for himself but fasting is for Me. And I will reward him and fasting is a shield, a person fasting, he abstains from obscene things, he abstains from lying and abstains from yelling and If a person gets angry with him and abuses him, he says “I’m fasting, I’m fasting”
And then the Hadith further goes on Muhammad (saws) says that
“ I swear by Allah (swt) in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad that a breath of a person who fasts is sweeter to Allah than the scent of musk and a person who fasts, he feels happy twice. Once while breaking the fast and once when he meets his Creator, his Lord”
So in this Hadith there are various aspects mentioned first is that fasting is only one for Allah (swt) and on one else, not for Riya. Secondly fasting is a shield, it’s a protection, it keeps you away from wrong things, from obscenity, from vulgarity and if someone is angry it says that you have to calm him down by saying
“I’m fasting, I’m fasting”
because there’s a Hadith where Muhammad (saws) says in
Sahih Bukhari Vol. no. 3 Hadith no. 2038 that
“The Satan runs in the circulatory system of the human beings like the blood”
So when we fast, we feel hungry, when we are hungry, you know, the energy level goes down and the things which required for doing things away from Allah (swt) so Taqwa level goes up because when we eat food, it goes into the blood, when we restrict food the restriction of the pathway of the Satan is there. So that’s the reason when we fast, our Taqwa level increases.
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