Series "SAWM صوم (FASTING) -- 01
Sawm (Fasting) is the fourth pillar of Islam; an act of worship that Allah ordained the Muslims to perform during the month of Ramadan. In this kind of worship, the servant draws closer to His Lord by abandoning the things that he loves and desires, such as food, drink and sexual intercourse.
Allah ordained fasting for Muslims and for previous nations for a great purpose, which Allah’s words show in a verse of the Noble Quran. Allah says,
(يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ)
“O you who believe, prescribed for you is the Fast, just as it was prescribed for those that were before you so that you might guard yourselves.” [2:183]
The purpose of Sawm is to train the believer to restrain and to avoid prohibitions. It also teaches the believer how to control and curb his needs and wishes, and frees him from the prison of bodily desires.
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