Saum (Fasting)

[breadcrumb_simple] – Fasting (Saum) in Islam is the practice of abstaining from food, drink, smoking, and sexual activity between dawn and sunset of a day during the ninth month of Islamic Lunar Calendar Ramadan. Fasting is known as Saum (صَوْم) in Arabic and the plural is Siyām (صِيَام). In Persian and Urdu, it is known…

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Hadith on Saum

  [breadcrumb_simple] Devils are chained during Ramadan   “When the month of Ramadan starts, the gates of the heaven are opened and the gates of Hell are closed and the devils are chained.” (Imam Bukhari) Past sins are forgiven   Narrated Abu Huraira(r.a): The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:”… whoever fasts during Ramadan out of…

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Quran on Saum

The word “Saum” appears 10 times in 7 verses in the Quran. The Muslim fast of the month of Ramadan is a continuation of the long history of fasting in the Abrahamic faiths.  ”O you who believe! Observing As-saum (the fasting) is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you…

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