By �rifbillah Shaykh Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar (D.B.)
(from Tarbiyatus Saalikeen - ITA)
Allah Ta'�la (Jalla Jal�lahu) is showing His divine favour and
Mercy by saying 'O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it
was prescribed to those before you'. All�ma Aloosi Syed Mahmood
Baghdadi have said in Tafseer Roohul Ma'�ni that this verse is
revealed to provide comfort by informing that Fasting is not
difficult. Fast, as people before you did. It means that this evil
doubt that comes to your mind about dying by being starved
from sunrise to the sunset during the Fast (is false). No one
ever died. The people before you did it and lived.
'As it was prescribed to those before you'. The people before you
had fast and they survived and no one ever died. So the
suspicion of being starved to death by fasting, is fallacious.
You will sustain. Because this is an order of the Sustainer. You
will get a new life (energy) in your life by obeying His
command.
Why did I (the almighty Allah) make the Fasting obligatory? So
that you can become a friend of Mine. You are only a slave right
now. A believer enters into slavery by believing but you will
only be crowned with My friendship when you will Fast. Are
you all hearing the reward of Fasting? You are only a slave at
the moment. If you Fast, I (the almighty Allah) will put the
crown of My friendship on the head of your slavery.
In another verse Allah Ta'�la informs the believer. 'No one is My
friend except those who are muttaqi (the pious)'. i.e. those who
abstain from sins.
This cannot be undone and I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.
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