Fasting will Intercede for You

Follow @AhleDhikr Know that the believer during the month of Ramadhaan is faced with two great personal endeavors; 

1)    He fasts during the day

2)   He prays and recites the Quraan during the night

So if the believer makes himself patient upon these endeavors then he will have a great and unlimited reward.  

Ka’b said, “There will be a call on the Day of Judgment so that everyone who ploughed will be rewarded. The Ahl al-Quraan and the people of fasting will be given their reward without measure. They will also be interceded for with Allaah, the Glorified and the Exalted.”

As it was narrated in the Musnad on the authority of ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr [May Allaah be Pleased with him] that the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him] said, “Fasting and Standing in Prayer are two forms of intercession for the slave on the Day of Judgment. Fasting will say on that Day, ‘Oh my Lord! I prevented him from food and drink during the day’ and the Quraan will say, ‘I prevented him from sleeping during the night so except this intercession from us’, so it will be accepted from them both.”

So fasting will be an intercessor on the Day of Judgment as food and drink and the following of his desires were prevented for him. All of these are the same, he makes prohibited upon himself by fasting, food, drink, intercourse and that what comes after it, without falling into any Haraam forms of fulfillment of desire, he doesn’t follow his need for any of these for the sake of fasting. So he prohibits himself from the Haraam types of looking, the Haraam types of listening, all the various forms of income he may gain which are Haraam, he closes it all for himself; all because of fasting. So because of these restrictions that he places on himself due to fasting, fasting will be an intercessor for him on the Day of Judgment.

So when fasting will say on the Day of Judgment, ‘Oh my Lord! I prevented him from food and drink during the day’ it means that the fasting person protected his fast from what is prohibited as well as what is usually permissible for him. As for the one who fasts but doesn’t prevent himself from falling into obeying his desires and what Allaah had prohibited him, then he deserves to be beaten. 

Chapter 37: The Virtue of Giving in Charity and Reciting the Quraan in Ramadhaan from Lataa'if al-Ma'aarif (Pg. 125-134) by Haafidh Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee (d.795) [May Allaah have Mercy on him]