UAE Friday sermon: Fasting is prescribed to you

The sermon will tell worshippers that fasting Ramadan is one of the pillars of Islam.

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Allah honoured us with the month of Ramadan and opened for us the gates of the gardens of paradise, worshippers will be told during the Friday sermon.

“O you who believe. Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn God-consciousness and self-restraining fear (taqwa)” [Q2:183].

Allah has made the fasting of the month of Ramadan compulsory.

As he says, “Ramadhan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur’an, as a guide to humankind, also as clear (Signs) for guidance and judgement (between right and wrong). So whosoever of you witnesses the month let him fast it.”[Q2:183]

Prophet Mohammed emphasised the fact that fasting Ramadan is one of the pillars of Islam.

He said "Islam is built upon five: the testimony that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establishing Salat (the Ritual Prayer), paying Zakat (the Annual Tax), fasting (the month of) Ramadan, and performing Hajj (Holy Pilgrimage) to the Sacred House."

Allah has indeed made fasting distinct and exceptional among the deeds of human beings, and attributed it to himself as a way of exalting it and magnifying its status.

The Prophet says in a narration, which he reported from his Lord: “Every good deed performed by the son of Adam is for him except fasting; for that is for me, and I myself will give the reward for it.”

Allah has designated a gate from the gates of paradise specifically for those who fast, through which only they enter and no one else, the sermon will say.

Thus, the fasting person keeps his fasting pure and untainted and strives to safeguard his tongue, his hearing, his sight and all of his limbs.

Whosoever safeguards his limbs and patiently perseveres in the obedience of his Lord has indeed realized the true essence of fasting and achieved a complete reward from his Lord.

Worshippers will also be told that Ramadan is a month of action, activity and earnestness, in which the fasting person patiently perseveres in being diligent and industrious in his work and professional occupation.

And for that, he will receive a great reward and a generous recompense from Allah.

Preceding generations of Muslims, whenever Ramadan was approaching, they would devote and dedicate themselves entirely to the recitation of the Qur’an, for in the recitation of the Qur’an there is an enormous reward.

Also, of the things whose reward is huge, whose goodwill widespread and whose benefit manifest in society, is feeding and providing food to others.

As Prophet Mohammed said: “Whoever provides food for a fasting person to break his fast with, will have the same reward as the fasting person, without the reward of the fasting person being diminished in any way whatsoever.”