Fasting during Ramadan teaches Muslims important lessons like patience, controlling desires, feeling compassion for the poor, and avoiding useless activities like excessive TV, chatting, internet surfing, smoking and gossiping. It makes us appreciate the blessings Allah gives us and feel humility by experiencing hunger and thirst. Fasting also weakens the influence of Satan and multiplies rewards between 10 to 700 times. Hadith encourage fasting to enter paradise and be protected from hellfire.

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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.

8. Chatting with friends-useless talk

9. Internet surfing-waste of time unless its important

10. Smoking

12. Some Hadith

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