عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه، قال: قال رسولُ الله ﷺ: «مَن لم يَدَعْ قولَ الزُّورِ والعَمَلَ به والجهلَ، فليس لله حاجةٌ في أن يَدَع طعامَه وشَرَابَه».
64 - Ensuring the validity of fasting
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
If one will not abandon saying and acting on what is false and wrong deeds, God is in no need of him abandoning his food and drink.
Related by al-Bukhari, 6057.
Related Quranic Verses
Believers, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may be God-fearing.
(2: 183)
Turn away, then, from the loathsome evil of idolatrous beliefs and practices; and turn away from every word that is untrue.
(22: 30)
The true servants of the Lord of Grace are those who walk gently on earth, and who, whenever the ignorant address them, say: ‘Peace’.
(25: 63)
[And the true servants of God are] those who never bear witness to what is false, and whenever they pass by [people engaged in] frivolity, pass on with dignity.
(25: 72)
