al-Imaam Ahmad bin Abdir Rahmaan bin Qudaamah al-Maqdasee (may Allaah have mercy upon him) said:
"For fasting there are three levels,
1. The General Fast
2. The Specific Fast
3. The More Specific Fast
As for the "The General Fast" it is restraining the stomach, the privates from fulfilling the desires.
As for "The Specific Fast" it is restraining the look, the tongue, the hand, the foot, the hearing, the sight and the rest of the body parts from the acts of sin.
As for "The More Specific Fast" it is the fasting of the heart from the debased worries and the thoughts which distance (the individual) away from Allaah. It is also refraining the heart from everything besides Allaah in its entirety"
Taken from Mukhtasar Minhaaj al-Qaasideen pg. 44 Maktabah Daar al-Bayyaan.
TRANSLATED BY ABU YUSUF KHALEEFAH
Bismillah ir rahman ir raheem
ReplyDeleteasalamualikum warahma tullahi wabaraka tuhu noble brother/sister
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It comes in Muslim (1017) from the hadeeth of Jarir bin ‘Abdillah -may Allah be pleased with him- that the Prophet -sallahu ‘alayhi wasallam- said: Whoever introduces a good practice in Islam which was followed after him (by people) he will have the reward like the one who has done it, without their rewards being diminished in the least.*
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Jazakum Allahu khayran kathiran wa baaraka Allahu feekum fidduniyah wa filakhira
was-salamualikum warahma tullahiwabaraka tuhu
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