THE MERITS OF FASTING

There are many merits in observing the fasts.  �The breath of the observer of fast is sweeter to Allah than the fragrance of musk,� Muhammad tells us.  On the Day of Resurrection, there will be a gate called RayyAn in Paradise, through which only those who have fasted will be allowed to enter-and when the last of them has entered, �it would be closed and no one would enter it� (2569).

The recompense of one who combines fasting with jihad will be immense.  �Every servant of Allah who observes fast for a day in the way of Allah, Allah would remove, because of this day, his face from the Fire of Hell to the extent of seventy years� distance� (2570).

author : ram swarup