-If the observer of fast does not gives up false utterances

and their pursuit,

then God does not require him to give up

his food and water.

-Fasting is like a shield. When one of you is observing fast,

neither should you indulge in indecent talk, nor should you create uproar.

And if someone talks ill of you, or fights with you, you should say,

'I am observing my fast.'

-Everything has a cleansing agent.

And fasting is the cleansing agent for the body.

Fasting is more a matter of patience than of anything else.

-The man who keeps a fast in full faith,

and for reward in the world hereafter,

will be forgiven his past sins.

And the man who prays in the night during Ramadan

with faith and for reward in the world Hereafter,

will be forgiven all his past sins.

-When Ramadan comes,

the doors of Heaven are opened,

the doors of Hell are closed,

the devils are put in chains,

and the doors of mercy are opened.

-A man who misses a fast without a reason,

such as illness, can never atone for it, even

if he fasts for the rest of his life.

-Partake of sahur (food, taken a little before dawn during Ramadan),

for there is a blessing in it.

-Abdullah ibn Abbas reported that the Prophet

made alms giving on Id-ul-Fitr an obligatory act.

As well as providing food for the poor,

it was meant to atone for any absurdity or immodesty that

may have been committed during fasting in the month of Ramadan.