The benefits of fasting in the month of Ramadan
Fasting is one of the acts of worship that has the greatest impact on the spiritual purification and sublimity of souls.
Fasting helps to strengthen the will, to contain the passions and the excessive love of oneself. It gives strength to the fasting person to abandon what is harmful to him, and even what is ordinarily lawful. The fasting person is then endowed with a strong will which is translated by the patience vis-a-vis the illicit and the enthusiasm in the discharge of the duties.
Fasting offers us many benefits :
Good behavior with others: Many people do not understand the reality of fasting. For them, fasting is limited to food and sexual abstinence. They are, during the month of Ramadan, in the same state in which they are during the other months. If there are a few things that are changing for them, it's only the dinner schedule! Even worse, they use fasting to justify their inaction, laziness, nervousness and bad behavior towards others. The nature of fasting would be the cause of their failure!
Those who think that fasting has bad consequences on behavior are very wrong. The cause is that they have fasted only the name, considering it as a mechanical act without a soul. Their fasting is a habit and not an act of worship. Had they fasted by faith, hoping for the divine reward, and aware of the purposes of fasting, they would have reformed, and fasting would have had a considerable impact on the education of their souls and the reform of their behavior. towards others. Indeed, whoever fasted the month of Ramadan by faith, hoping for the divine reward, will realize that the lessons he learned from fasting require him to show good behavior towards others, thus making the words true. of the Prophet, peace and the blessing of God be upon him, "I was sent only to fulfill the noble characters"
The month of Ramadan is the month of generosity and charity because the fasting person feels fasting, the suffering of the poor and needy who find nothing to calm their hunger. Let us therefore, in this blessed month, serve the poor, in our country, and in the whole world.
