Fasting in the Full Sense
The shaikh, Dr. Muḥammad ibn Ghālib Al-ʿUmarī, may Allāh protect him, said:
Just as you’ve fasted from food and drink, fast from backbiting¹ and sowing discord;² from looking at things [you’re] not allowed to; from listening to things [you’re] not allowed to; from deep hatred [where it’s not allowed] and [from] malice, [as] in the ḥadīth:
One who doesn’t leave false or slanderous speech, acting upon [falsehood], and [acting upon] ignorance, Allāh has no need³ of his giving up his food and drink.⁴
What’s meant by [acting upon] ignorance is committing sins. So let your fast be a perfect, complete fast, without any deficiencies in it.
¹saying true things about a Muslim behind his back that he wouldn’t like said; if false, the sin is even greater (trans.)
²by telling someone what someone else said about him to create a rift between them (trans.)
³meaning: He does not want and is not pleased with; see: miraath.net/من-لم-يدع-قول-الزور-والعمل-به/ (trans.)
⁴Refer to the miraath link in the footnote above and Al-Albānī’s Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Targhīb wa-l-Tarhīb, no. 1079 (trans.)
Source: @m_g_alomari. 14 Apr 21.
كما صمت عن الطعام والشراب
فصم عن الغيبة والنميمة
وصم عن النظر المحرم
وصم عن سماع المحرم
وصم عن البغضاء والحقد
في الحديث "من لم يدع قول الزور، والعمل به، والجهل، فليس لله حاجة في أن يدع طعامه وشرابه"
والجهل يراد به فعل المعاصي.
فليكن صومك صوما تاما كاملا، لا نقص فيه.— د.محمد بن غالب العُمري (@m_g_alomari) April 14, 2021