English book · UNDERSTANDING ISLAM

Fasting Of Ramadan

English book, p. 53

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Fasting of Ramadan of patience and self-control. If I lose my patience now and react, then I have destroyed the very purpose of fasting.” Fasting certainly brings great reward. But this reward is only for the one whose fast becomes a fast of patience. The one who learns through fasting that while living among people, he must tolerate unpleasant situations. He must respond to harshness with gentleness. Even if others create provocative situations, he must avoid getting provoked. Whatever wrong he faces from others, he should leave it to God—and continue to treat everyone with kindness. There are two ways of obeying God. One is in normal situations. The other is in difficult and trying times. Deeds done in tough situations are always greater than those in ease. Patience is a great act—and fasting is a month-long training course for this act. If seen deeply, the entire religion of God is a religion of patience. The whole Quran is a book of patience. Every teaching of Islam includes this element in one way or another. To live an Islamic life in today’s world means that a person has decided to leave a non-Islamic lifestyle and bring his life under Islamic principles. This world is a place of test. That’s why, in every matter, a person is given two options. When someone chooses a religious life, he is leaving one path to follow another. This transition is not possible

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