Fasting Ramadan

Allah the Almighty said:
"O you who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, even as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may attain piety." (2:183)

The Prophet said:
"Fasting is a shield (against Hell)." (Agreed upon )
The prophet said again:
"whoever fasts the month of Ramadhan with faith and seeking Allah`s pleasure and reward will have his past sins forgiven." (Agreed upon)

The fasting is an act of worship that involves a lot of benefits such as:

1- It relieves the digestive system of continuous work and helps the body to get rid of the excess materials and strengthen the body.
2- It purifies the self and gives it good qualities such as excellence, discipline, obediece and patience.
3- It helps the smokers to put temporary end to chain smoking or abandon smoking altogether.
4- And lastly fasting teaches the Muslim equality and brotherhood. The fasting brethren fast together and break their fast together. This is real Islamic unity. A fasting Muslim suffer hunger and as a result he shows sympathy to hungry and the needy.