Fasting is of three levels:
The fast of the common people, the fast of the elite, and the fast of the elite of the elite.
1. As for the fast of the common people, it is the abstaining of the stomach and private parts from fulfilling their desires.
2. As for the fast of the elite, it is the abstaining of the eyes, tongue, hands, feet, hearing, eyesight, and all the other limbs from sins.
3. As for the fast of the elite of the elite, it is the fasting of the heart from shameful aspirations, thinking of anything other than ALLĀH, and abstaining from everything except ALLĀH in totality.
- Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī رحمه الله
[Muktasar minhāj al-Qāsidīn, page 44]
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