Fasting for Taqwa and Thanksgiving

FASTING FOR TAQWA AND THANKSGIVING x The Quran states: “Believers, fasting has been prescribed for you, just as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard yourself against evil. … so that you may glorify Him for His having guided you and so that you may be grateful to Him.” (The Quran, 2:183, 185) From these verses of the Quran we understand that fasting is training of two things at the same time. One, taqwa or righteousness, the other thanksgiving. Food and drink are two great blessings of God. But in normal circumstances man does not realize it. During fasting when he abstains from these things the whole day and then after sunset when he eats and drinks after experiencing great hunger and thirst, only then he realizes how great these