عن أبي هُرَيرة رضي الله عنه، أن رسول الله ﷺ قال: «قال اللهُ عزَّ وجلَّ: كلُّ عمَلِ ابن آدمَ له، إلَّا الصيامَ؛ فإنه لي، وأنا أَجْزِي به، والصِّيامُ جُنَّةٌ، وإذا كان يومُ صومِ أحدكم، فلا يَرْفُثْ، ولا يَصْخَبْ، فإن سابَّهُ أحدٌ أو قاتَلَهُ، فليقُلْ: إني امرؤٌ صائمٌ، والذي نفْسُ محمدٍ بيده، لَخُلُوفُ فمِ الصائم أطيبُ عند الله مِن ريحِ المِسْك، للصائمِ فَرْحتانِ يَفرَحُهما: إذا أفطَرَ فَرِحَ، وإذا لَقِيَ ربَّهُ فَرِحَ بصومِه»
Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. God, Mighty and Exalted, said: ‘All man’s actions are his except fasting: it is Mine and I reward it’. 2. Fasting is a shield. 3. If any of you is fasting, he must neither say what is obscene nor shout. If someone abuses him verbally or quarrels with him, he should say: ‘I am a fasting person’. 4. By Him who holds Muhammad’s soul in His hand, the changing mouth smell of a fasting person is sweeter in God’s view, on the Day of Resurrection, than the smell of musk. 5. A fasting person has two occasions to rejoice: when he ends his fast he rejoices at having completed his fast, and when he meets his Lord, he rejoices at having fasted.
Related by al-Bukhari, 1904; Muslim, 1151.
Believers, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may be God-fearing.
(2: 183)
Say: ‘In God’s bounty and grace, in this let them rejoice; for this is better than all that they may amass’.
(10: 58)
Those who are patient in adversity will be given their reward in full, beyond reckoning’.
(39: 10)
