Dr. Hassan Al-Saghir, a scientist, said Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the obligation of fasting was not an innovation in the laws, but rather God wrote it down to this nation just as He wrote it down to those before it, indicating that its purpose is to reach the level of piety.
Hassan Al-Saghir added, during today’s Tarawih lesson from Al-Azhar Mosque, that piety is a path to being with God Almighty, as in His Almighty saying: “Indeed, God is with those who fear Him and those who are doers of good,” and it is the path to righteous deeds and forgiveness of sins, citing the Almighty’s saying: “O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of righteousness. He will amend your deeds for you and forgive you. Your sins.
Dr. Hassan Al-Saghir emphasized that reaching the month of Ramadan is a great blessing that requires gratitude, and that it is the duty of a Muslim to live this month with prayer, fasting, and reading the Qur’an, recalling that one of the purposes of fasting is to achieve the piety that God intended for His servants, and that the slogan of Ramadan, as stated by the Holy Qur’an, is the Almighty’s saying: “God desires for you ease, but He does not desire for you.” Hardship.
He explained that one of the manifestations of ease in fasting is the concessions God has legislated for the sick and the traveler, and that he described the month as “a number of days” in order to make it easy for the servants, stressing that fasting is one of the doors to entering Paradise, and that God Almighty promised the righteous a Paradise as wide as the heavens and the earth, and made among the fruits of piety the facilitation of matters and the relief of distress, as God Almighty said: “And whoever fears God, He will make He has a way out, and He provides for him from where he does not expect. And God Almighty also said: And whoever fears God, He will make his affairs easy for him.
He pointed out that the month of Ramadan is the month of supplication and answers, citing as evidence the Almighty’s saying: “And when My servants ask you about Me, then indeed I am near. I respond to the call of the supplicant when he calls upon him,” stressing that in the month there are blessings and mercy available to every believer, and that the doors of goodness are in it. It is broad, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, told that “in every good deed there is charity,” which opens the way for the Muslim to draw closer to God Almighty in all aspects of righteousness, from worship, good speech, and good deeds, calling for seizing the month in what pleases God and achieving guidance in this world and the hereafter.
