What is the importance of fasting in the month of Ramadan?
A Facebook post from the page of Ahmed Alhasan احمد الحسن:
“May you be well and in good health on the occasion of the arrival of the blessed month of Ramadan.
I ask God to give all of us a share in all of the good He sends down in this benevolent month.
{O you who have believed, fear God. And let every soul look to what it has put forth for tomorrow – and fear God. Indeed, God is Acquainted with what you do ✶ And be not like those who forgot God, so He made them forget themselves. Those are the defiantly disobedient}*
O God! I seek refuge with you from every evil ending;
A bad ending, that which the human being reaches when he is heedless of his circumstance, where he came from and in what he [his heart] fluctuates and to where he is going to end up.
A very bad ending; the abyss that the arrogant ones descended into, those who have forgotten their own selves.
A great loss for the human being to reach this bad ending, when all the while, the solution from the beginning was in his own hands and was very easy.
O God! make us from the ones who worship, work and complete their work, make provision for tomorrow, and do not become greedy in something that you have permitted them to do.
*Quran Chapter “The Exile” 59:18-19-Trans.