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Benefits of fasting

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Fasting instills a sense of brotherhood and solidarity, as Muslims can feel and experience what human beings feel needy and hungry. However, even the poor, needy and hungry participate in the fast. On the other hand, Ramadan is a month of giving to charity and sharing meals to break the fast together, the reward offered by the latter rather than eating alone. Most importantly, fasting is also seen as a great sign of obedience on the part of the believer to God. Faithful observance of the Sawm is believed to atone for personal fouls and misdeeds and to help win a place in paradise. As mentioned briefly before, fasting can also be observed voluntarily (as part of the Greater Jihad): Sawm is intended to teach believers the patience and self-control of their personal conduct, to help control the passions and temperament, to give time to meditation and to strengthen one's faith. Fasting is also meant to cleanse the inside of the soul and free it from harm. Some scholars, after firs...

First ten days of Dhu al-Hiyya in the Islamic calendar

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The days when fasting is forbidden Although fasting is considered a pious act in Islam, there are times when fasting is forbidden: Eid ul-Adha and 3 days after Mohammed, because he said: "You do not fast in these days, these are days to eat and drink, and remembering Allah, "reported by Abu Hurairah Umrah Package December 2017 . Eid ul-Fitr For Shia Muslims, the day of Ashura, the 10th of Muharram in the Hijri calendar. It also bans Friday to a single and fast only on Fridays, as Amr al-Ashari said he had heard that Muhammad "Truly, Friday is an Eid (feast) so, so do not fast on it unless to fast the day before or after her. "  All the fasting days of the years are also forbidden, Muhammad said: "There is no reward for fasting for the one who fasts perpetually." Fasting in other religions Lent in Christianity, the Yom Kippur, Tisha B'Av, fasting of Esther, Tzom Gedalia the seventeenth of Tammuz, and the Ten of Tevet, all in Judaism, are also ti...