It should be known that there are three grades of fasting :
ordinary, special and extra-special.
Ordinary fasting means abstaining from food, drink and sexual satisfaction.
Special fasting means keeping one's ears, eyes, tongue, hands and feet and all
other organs-free from sin.
Extra-special fasting means fasting of the heart from unworthy concerns and worldly
thoughts, in total disregard of everything but Allah.
See not what displeases Allah :
A chaste regard, restrained from viewing anything that is blameworthy or reprehensible,
or which distracts the heart and diverts it from the remembrance of God.
Speak no evil :
Guarding one's tongue from twaddle, lying, backbiting, scandalmongering, obscenity, rudeness,
wrangling and controversy; making it observe silence and occupying it with remembrance of Allah
and with recitation of the Quran.
Hear no evil :
Closing one's ears to everything reprehensible ; for everything unlawful to utter is
likewise unlawful to listen to.
Do no evil :
Keeping all other limbs and organs away from sin. The object of Fasting is to induce
moderation, to experience hunger and to check desire, in order to reinforce the soul in piety.
Look to Allah with fear and hope :
After the fast has been broken, the heart should swing like a pendulum between fear and hope.
For one does not know if one's fast will be accepted, so that one will find favor with God,
or whether it will be rejected, leaving one among those He abhors. This is how one should
be at the end of any act of worship one performs.
Posted on 10/28/2003 11:47:29 PM
yaad aa gaya sab ko 
