Salam and a very early good morning everyone.
This is a note of the three levels of fasting in Ramadhan.
First level : Ordinary Fasting
This level requires abstention from three things; food, drink and sexual
satifiscation. This is the minimum requirement and the reward is given
accordingly.
Second level; Special Fasting.
Keeping one's ears, eyes, tongue, hands and feet free from sin. For such people
just abstaining from the minimum requirement is not sufficient, thus they take care not to say, hear or do a wrong thing.
As they restrain their organs from all kinds of prohibitions, they are reward accordingly.
Third level: Extra-special fasting
This fast involves abstaining from all unworthy thoughts, loves, desires and wishes in total diregard of everything except the thought and the remembrance of Allah.
This is the perfection of tawheed (oneness of Allah). One may physically be present in the world but the internal self is exclusively engaged towards Allah.
This is a note of the three levels of fasting in Ramadhan.
First level : Ordinary Fasting
This level requires abstention from three things; food, drink and sexual
satifiscation. This is the minimum requirement and the reward is given
accordingly.
Second level; Special Fasting.
Keeping one's ears, eyes, tongue, hands and feet free from sin. For such people
just abstaining from the minimum requirement is not sufficient, thus they take care not to say, hear or do a wrong thing.
As they restrain their organs from all kinds of prohibitions, they are reward accordingly.
Third level: Extra-special fasting
This fast involves abstaining from all unworthy thoughts, loves, desires and wishes in total diregard of everything except the thought and the remembrance of Allah.
This is the perfection of tawheed (oneness of Allah). One may physically be present in the world but the internal self is exclusively engaged towards Allah.