Allah's Plan For You & Me

Ramadan

In this month Allah (swt) has promised protection from Shayateen and many other great things for Believers.

There are 7 Angels of Allah who'll guard every rebellious Shaytan and keep them away from Allah's Servants during the month of Ramadan.

Therefore it's easier for Muslims to beg for forgiveness, find the right path again, and start doing good deeds that are beneficial for them.

✦⋆· The Prophet (saw) said, "Fasting is incumbent upon you, for verily it severs the roots [of desires] and removes wildness."

● "If the servant was to fathom the worth of Ramadan, he would wish that Ramadan lasted the whole year."

● "Everything has a zakat, and the zakat of the bodies is to fast."

● "Fast and you will be healthy."

● "Verily Ramadan has been thus named because it scorches away sins."

● "The fasting person is in constant worship of Allah, even when he is sleeping in his bed, as long as he does not backbite a fellow Muslim."

● "Fasting acts as a shield from the Fire."

● "If a person remains unforgiven in the month of Ramadan, then what other month is there left for him to be forgiven in?!"

● "Verily the most unfortunate is he who is deprived of Allah's forgiveness in this great month."

● "Verily the gates of the heavens are opened on the first night of the month of Ramadan and are not closed again until the very last night."

✦⋆· Lady Fatima Zahra (sa) said, "Allah made fasting obligatory in order to reinforce sincere devotion [to Him]."

● "What is the fasting person doing with his fast if he is not guarding his tongue, his hearing, his sight and his limbs [from sins]?!"

✦⋆· Imam Ali (as) said, "Fasting is just as much keeping away from prohibited things as it is keeping away from food and drink."

● "Verily the Prophet of Allah (as) addressed us one day, saying, "O people, verily the month of Allah has come to you with benediction, mercy and forgiveness - a month that is the best of months in the sight of Allah, whose days are the best of days, whose nights are the best of nights, and whose hours are the best of hours.

It is a month wherein you have been invited to the banquet of Allah and have been made worthy of Allah's magnanimity.

Your breaths during this month are considered glorification [of Allah], and your sleep worship. Your actions in it are accepted and your supplication answered..."

Upon hearing this, I stood up and asked, 'O Prophet of Allah, what is the best of deeds to be performed in this month?'

He replied, 'O Abu al-Hassan, the best of deeds in this month is to restrain oneself from all that Allah, Mighty and Exalted, has prohibited."

✦⋆· Imam Baqir (as) said, "The fast and the obligatory pilgrimage (Hajj) pacifies the heart."

✦⋆· Imam Sadiq (as) said, "A fasting person's sleep is worship, his silence is glorification of Allah, his good deeds are accepted, and his supplication is answered."

● "A fasting person has two sources of joy: his joy when he opens his fast and his joy at meeting his Lord."

● "Whoever offers a fasting person something with which to open his fast, obtains the same reward as him."

● "Verily when a man fasts a single day of his own accord, desiring thereby what is with Allah, Mighty and Exalted, Allah gives him entrance into Paradise because of it."

● "When you fast, your hearing must fast, along with your sight, your hair, your skin..." and he listed a number of other things, and said, "The day that you fast must not be like a day that you do not fast."

● "The best jihad is fasting in hot weather."

● "Winter is the springtime of a believer - its nights are long, so he can make use of them to stand in prayer, whereas its days are short, and he can make use of them to fast."

● "If a person remains unforgiven in the month of Ramadan, he will not be forgiven in any other month after it unless he is able to attend the plains of 'AArafa [during the obligatory pilgrimage]."

● Imam Sadiq (as), in his advice to his children heralding the advent of the month of Ramadan, said, "Exert yourselves [in doing good deeds] for verily in this month sustenance is apportioned, life spans are destined, the names of Allah's select servants who wish to strive towards Him are recorded down, and in this month is a night wherein the good deeds performed equal the deeds of a thousand months."

✦⋆· Imam Hassan Askari (as) was once asked the reasoning behind the obligation of fasting, to which he replied, "That the rich may experience the pain of hunger and bestow his generosity thereby upon the poor."

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"Every believer must respect their guest! It's not right for a guest to be fasting when he is going to his Muslim brother/Sister's house as they might have prepared some food for them."

Do all Muslim girls who reach 9 years of age need to fast?

According to some Grand Marjas, there are girls who are 9 years of age, but their mental and physical abilities are like 5 years old girls. These girls haven't matured yet.

They can't withstand hunger! Therefore, fasting is not obligatory for them.

There are also workers & farmers that have difficult jobs that they can't let go of in fear of being fired, etc.

Like farmers who need to pick up vegetables and fruits from ground or tree under the hot burning sun.

They can break their fast and not fast while doing their job.

On the other hand, if a worker is on the verge of getting sick due to not drinking water while having fasting.

They can drink water until they don't feel sick anymore and continue with their fast.

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What are the Haram fastings that you shouldn't do?

• Fasting during Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

• Fasting on the day that you aren't sure whether its 'The Day of Arafah' or Eid al-Adha.

• The day that you don't know whether it's the end of Sha'ban or the first day of Ramadan.

• If a woman wants to do Mustahab fasting and causes her husband to get upset. It is considered haram. As a matter of precaution, she should not do Mustahab fasting without her husband's permission.

• If parents don't see their child as fit to do fasting and out of their kind heart, they ask their child to not fast.

Then if the child still does Mustahab fasting and as a result, causes her/his parents to get upset and worried. Then its haram.

• If a person knows fasting is bad for them.

Yet they fast, it is not going to be accepted. Unless they didn't know it's bad for them and figure it out later.