Ramadan Reminders (Lesson 02) Fasting for Allah.

We need to have the highest of intentions in our fasts--and not merely go through the motions of fasting. The best of intentions for fasting is to have a clear sense of fasting "for Allah." This reminder explores what it means to fast "for Allah," and explains the Prophetic hadith, related by Bukhari, in which Allah says, "All the actions of people are for them, except for fasting. Fasting is for Me and it is I who reward it."

Ramadan Reminders (Lesson One)

This lesson covers "The Transformative Fast: The Qur'anic Call to Mindfulness, Thankfulness, and Turning to Allah in Our Fasting"

"O believers, prescribed for you is the Fast, even as it was prescribed for those that were before you -- haply you will be godfearing --for days numbered; and if any of you be sick, or if he be on a journey, then a number of other days. And for those who are unable to fast, a redemption by feeding a poor man. Yet better, it is for him who willingly gives more. And that you should fast is better for you, if you but know. The month of Ramadan, wherein the Koran was sent down to be a guidance to the people, and as clear signs of the Guidance and the Salvation. So let those of you, who are present at the month, fast it; and if any of you be sick, or if he be on a journey, then a number of other days; God desires ease for you, and desires not hardship for you; and that you fulfil the number, and magnify God that He has guided you, and haply you will be thankful. And when My servants question thee concerning Me -- I am near to answer the call of the caller, when he calls to Me; so let them respond to Me, and let them believe in Me; haply so they will go aright." (Qur'an: 183-186)