Bismillahi Wal Hamdullillah was Salātu Was Salāmu ‘Alā
Rasūlillah
Ammā Ba’d:
In addition to the many benefits fasting has in relation to
the development of taqwa and suppressing the desires of the fasting person,
fasting also has another benefit mentioned in the following authentic hadith:
Upon the authority of a man from the companions of the
prophet (ﷺ) who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say:
“Fasting the month of patience
(Ramadhan) and three days of each month removes
‘Wahar’
from the
chests”
(Collected by Abdur Razāq in his ‘Musanaf’ and Ibn sa’d in his ‘Tabaqāt’ and Imām Ahmad in his Musnad and was
declared ‘Sahīh’
by Shk Albāni in ‘Sahīhut Targhīb wat Tarhīb’: 1033)
Imām Al Azhari mentions in tahdhīb Al Lughah: “Laith said: “Wahar
is a reference to malice and enmity in
the heart”
Abu Ubaidah said: “Wahar is its deceit and its anxiety and
perplexity”
Al Mundhiri mentions: “It
(wahar) is deceit, hatred, malice and wiswās”
Thus we see that from
the benefits of fasting is that it removes and purges the chest from those
things that affect its tranquility including the wiswās of the shayātīn.
As Allah, The Most High, mentions: “..it may be that you dislike a thing
which is good for you, and that you like a thing which is bad
for you. Allah knows and you do not know” (Suratul Baqarah:Vs 216)
Was Sallallāhu ‘Alā Nabiyinā Muhammad
Written by Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis
Taken from: https://ah-sp.com/2016/06/15/fasting-removes-the-ills-of-the-chest/#more-1240
