Fasting for Taqwa and Thanksgiving

blessings of God really are. Overwhelmed with this experience, he expresses his gratitude to God from the innermost recesses of his heart. This inculcates the spirit of thanksgiving in a fasting person. In this way the immediate benefit a fasting person receives is that he is enlisted by angels as a grateful servant of God. The second benefit is that person becomes deserving of receiving further blessings from God Almighty. According to a tradition of the Prophet, God says: “O people, all of you are hungry except the one whom I feed.” (Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 2577) This is indeed a reality because if the food we eat does not grow and be nourished by soil, we humans cannot gain it for consumption by any other means. That is why if a person keeps fasts in the month of Ramadan and is thankful for God’s blessings, he proves himself deserving of receiving the food grown in the soil for the rest of the year