Mufti Menk – Fasting Brings Discipline
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The speaker discusses the pillar of Islam, which involves offering the compulsory, obligatory Islam prayer and calling out to Allah. They also mention the restriction of fasting, which is why people attend a prayer in which they may not eat certain foods. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fasting for achieving spiritual health and discipline.
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and you start off with the pillar of Islam. What is it? Salah prayer. You start off with that pillar, you offer the compulsory, obligatory three units of solitude Muslim, the Muslim prayer, and then you sit again and you're calling out to Allah again, you raise your hands again, you say, Oh Allah, except what I just did in terms of acts of worship, what did you do? I tell you what you did, you stayed away from things that are otherwise permissible. I mean, what you started eating and drinking, is something halal, it's permissible, it was always halal. But when Allah told you not to eat halal through the day, in Ramadan, you didn't, it should make it much easier for you to
appreciate the halal when Allah says, Now you may eat it. And it should make it even more easier for you to abstain from something haram that you're not supposed to be doing. Anyway. This is where the discipline comes in. This is why we say fasting brings about discipline the month of discipline, Ramadan, because if I could stay away from something permissible water and drink and so on food, that's okay. I surely can stay away from that which is prohibited for the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala