The 3 Levels of Fasting

📌Ordinary

• Abstaining from food, drink and intimacy.

📌Elite

• Protecting the eyes from looking at haram and anything

which takes you away from the remembrance of Allah.

 • Protecting the tongue from lying, backbiting, arguing and

foul language etc.

• Protecting the ears from listening to harām.

 • Protecting the rest of your body from harām.

• Not eating to your fill at ifṭār time.

• Hoping that Allah will accept your fast, and at the same

time fearing that your fast may not be accepted.

📌Super-Elite

• Abstaining from worldly thoughts and concerns, and

everything other than Allah.

(Adapted from Imam al-Ghazali's Ihya)

Hence, we must be especially careful to guard ourselves from all kinds of sin while we are fasting. 

We should abandon unbeneficial speech, specifically arguing and debating with others.

If anyone tries to argue with us while we are fasting, we should simply respond by saying we are fasting and leave them

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