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The Inner Dimensions of Fasting
Summarized Reading of Imam al-Ghazali’s book of “The Mysteries of Fasting” in Ihya Ulum al-Din
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Overview
Note: This is an online session. Session will be conducted on Meet.
Date / Time
Thursdays
20 & 27 Feb 2025
8pm – 9.30pm
Venue
Online on Meet (Google)
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Instructor
Ustaz Muhammad Faizuddin bin Fauzan
Synopsis
“Oh you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous.” [Al-Baqarah: 183]
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.” [Ibn Majah]
Fasting has a deeper meaning to Muslims. Especially in the month of Ramadan when all Muslims are commanded to observe throughout the month. Fasting helps to reconnect us to God while realising and accepting that He is free of need and that we depend on Him as the source of the materials for survival. This leads to the purification of the heart and clarity in reflection. Upon realisation of this state of our weaknesses caused by hunger, our heart is softened to turn to God, an opportunity to be dutiful to Him leaving all forms of lowly and blameworthy traits and breaking the desire for sins.
Fasting tightens up these inroads by hunger. It works tirelessly to incite and distract us so we can remain in the sensory realm, where only the limbs and the sensory organs translate things to us and the heart is made inactive. If the heart is active, it sees and comprehends beyond the senses, it can transcend to the spiritual and the unseen. In so many verses of the Quran, Allah clarifies the ability of the heart and the effect of a dysfunctional heart.
“Have they not travelled throughout the land so their hearts may reason, and their ears may listen? Indeed, it is not the eyes that are blind, but it is the hearts in the chests that grow blind.” [Al-Hajj: 46]
In this series, we reap from imam al-Ghazali’s immortal words of advice on the aspects of fasting that would help every Muslim truly appreciate and henceforth benefit from the act of fasting; especially in Ramadhan.
Reference
This session is based on the “The Mysteries of Fasting” in Ihya Ulum al-Din by Imam Al-Ghazali. PDF for download is available here.
Instructor will also be using his own slides for the sessions. Slides / reading materials will be sent to you before / after the session depending on the instructor’s preference.
Pre-Requisite
Registrants are welcome to join at any point of the season.
Registrants are required to have access to internet on the day of the course. We will be sharing an Google Meet link to all registrants on the day of the course.
Recordings
Recordings will be made available 1 day after session on AQATV app. Sessions are available for free. Subscribe $19.99 per month to get an access to all recordings of Sessions, MasterClasses, Essentials and Living With The Quran & Sunnah series. Your subscriptions will also allow us to continue sustain Alqudwah Academy, making our courses accessible and affordable to all insyaAllah.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Schedule” tab_id=”1724074494389-cdc74f78-e631″][vc_column_text]Schedule
| Week | Date | Topics / Links | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20.2.25 | The Outward Duties & Regulations of Fasting & The Responsibilities to be Fulfilled upon Breaking the Fast | • The 6 outward duties that is necessary to fasting and the types of atonements upon breaking the fast • The 6 supplementary acts affiliated to fasting |
| 2 | 27.2.25 | The Mysteries of Fasting & its Inward Conditions | • The 3 degrees of fasting, the fasting of the general public, the fasting of the selected few and the fasting of the elite • The 6 requirements that constitutes the fasting of the elite |
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Registration
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