Fasting

The date is march 12 in 2015. I hope  I can do anything thyat beneficial to me. Whatever they say I have to be myself. Today I am fasting. In moeslim religion, you have to do this fasting because of your God, Allah. Why did I say that? because the benefit of fasting, you can feel this after you do this as your daily life. Just 2 per week. There are every monday and thursday.
Drinking and eating are not permitted..

Why i say so?
Guess that.. because this action can make our fasting to be canceled. So, it can be useless for us.
Now..
Let us continue this knowledge. Fasting can keep us from the badness and the sin. We can controll our emotion, and our desire to be positive way. We can keep our thinking too.

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Syekh Abdullah Yusuf Ali memposisikan puasa sebagai satu-satunya bentuk pengabdian dalam Islam dari seorang hamba kepada Khalik-Nya melalui pengorbanan kepentingan diri sendiri dengan menahan seluruh gejolak biologis. Prosesi ritual seperti ini, sebenarnya bukan hal baru. Sebab puasa sebagai aktifitas ritual, tidak hanya sekadar dikenal, tetapi juga diamalkan oleh berbagai kalangan di luar Islam dengan cara maupun jumlah yang berbeda-beda.

Dalam kitab Tafsîr al-Mishbah, Prof.Dr.H.M. Quraish Shihab, M.A. antara lain menjelaskan bahwa orang-orang Mesir kuno pun, sebelum mereka mengenal agama samawi telah mengenal puasa. Dari sini praktik puasa beralih kepada orang-orang Yunani dan Romawi. Puasa juga dikenal dalam agama-agama penyembah bintang, agama Budha, Yahudi dan Kristen.

Dalam kitab al-Fihrasat, Ibn an-Nadim menjelaskan bahwa agama para penyembah bintang berpuasa tiga puluh hari setahun, ada pula puasa sunnah sebanyak 16 hari dan ada juga yang 27 hari. Puasa mereka sebagai penghormatan kepada bulan, juga kepada bintang Mars yang mereka percaya sebagai bintang nasib, dan juga kepada matahari.

Dalam ajaran Budha pun dikenal puasa, sejak terbit sampai terbenamnya matahari. Mereka melakukan puasa empat hari dalam sebulan. Mereka menamainya uposatha, pada hari-hari pertama, kesembilan, kelima belas dan kedua puluh. Orang Yahudi mengenal puasa selama empat puluh hari, bahkan dikenal beberapa macam puasa yang dianjurkan bagi penganut agama-agama ini, khususnya yang mengenang para nabi atau peristiwa-peristiwa penting dalam sejarah mereka.

Agama Kristen juga demikian. Walaupun dalam kitab Perjanjian Baru tidak ada isyarat tentang kewajiban puasa, dalam praktik keberagamaan mereka dikenal aneka ragam puasa yang ditetapkan oleh pemuka-pemuka agama.

How about fasting in Ramadhan  ?
Let's see :)

Who Must Fast?

Fasting Ramadan is compulsory upon every Muslim, male or female, who has these qualifications:

1. To be mentally and physically fit, which means to be sane and able.
2. To be of full age, the age of puberty and discretion, which is normally about fourteen. Children under this age should be encouraged to start this good practice on easy levels, so when they reach the age of puberty they will be mentally and physically prepared to observe fasting.
3. To be present at one's permanent settlement, your home town, one's farm, and one's business premises, etc. This means not to be on a journey of about fifty miles or more.
4. To be fairly certain that fasting is unlikely to cause you any harm, physical or mental, other than the normal reactions to hunger, thirst, etc.

Exemption From Fasting:
These said qualifications exclude the following categories:

1. Children under the age of puberty and discretion.
2. Insane people who are unaccountable for their deeds. People of these two categories are exempted from the duty of fist, and no compensation or any other substitute is enjoined on them.
3. Men and women who are too old and feeble to undertake the obligation of fast and bear its hardships. Such people are exempted from this duty, but they must offer, at least, one needy poor Muslim an average full meal or its value per person per day.
4. Sick people whose health is likely to be severely affected by the observance of fast. They may postpone the fast, as long as they are sick, to a later date and make up for it, a day for a day.
5. Travelers may break the fast temporarily during their travel only and make up for it in later days, a day for a day
6. Pregnant women and women breast-feeding their children may also break the fast, if its observance is likely to endanger their own health or that of their infants. But they must make up for the fast at a delayed time, a day for a day.
7. Women in the -period of menstruation (of a maximum of ten days or of confinement (of a maximum of forty days).; They must postpone the fast till recovery and then make up for it, a day for a day.
   

It should be understood that here, like in all other Islamic undertakings, the intention must be made clear that this action is undertaken in obedience to God, in response to His command and out of love of Him.
The fast of any day of Ramadan becomes void by intentional eating or drinking or smoking or indulgence in any intimate intercourse, and by allowing anything to enter through the mouth into the interior parts of the body. And if this is done deliberately without any lawful reason, this is a major sin which only renewed repentance can expiate.
If anyone, through forgetfulness, does something that would ordinarily break the fast, 0a observance is not nullified, and his fast stands valid, provided he stops doing that thing the moment he realizes what he is doing.
On completion of the fast of Ramadan, the special charity known as Sadagat-ul-Fitr (charity of ' Fast-breaking) must be distributed before 'Eid-ul-Fitr (approximately), seven dollars per head.

General Recommendations:


It is strongly recommended by Prophet Muhammad to observe these practices especially during Ramadan:

1. To have a light meal before the break of the dawn, known as Suhoor.
2. To eat a few dates or start breaking the fast by plain water right after sunset, saying this prayer Allah humma laka sumna, wa 'ala rizqika aftarna. (O God! for Your sake have we fasted and now we break the fast with the food You have given us).
3. To make your meals as light as possible because, as the Prophet put it, the worst thing man can fill is his stomach.
4. To observe the supererogatory prayer known as Taraweeh.
5. To exchange social visits and intensify humanitarian services.
6. To increase the study and recitation of the Qur'an.
7. To exert the utmost in patience and humbleness.
8. To be extraordinarily cautious in using one's senses, one's mind and, especially, the tongue; to abstain from careless gossip and avoid all suspicious motions.                                                   (Source:  http://www.eden.rutgers.edu)