Virtues of Fasting

 (1)  Allah has chosen fasting for Himself and He will reward it in multiples beyond measure.

 (2)  Fasting has no equivalent.

 (3)  The supplications of the fasting person will not be refused.

(4)  The fasting person has two moments of joy: one when he breaks his fast and the other when he meets his Lord and rejoices over his fasting.

 (5)  The smell that might come from the mouth of a fasting person due to an empty stomach is more pleasing to Allah than the scent of musk.

 (6)  Fasting is a protection and a strong fortress that keeps a person safe from the Fire.

(7)  Allah will distance a person who fasts a single day for the sake of Allah seventy years distance from the Fire.

 (8)  Whoever fasts one day seeking divine pleasure will enter Paradise if it is the last day of his life.

 (9)  One of the Gates of Paradise, al-Rayyan, is dedicated for the fasting people, and no one else will enter through it; it will be locked after them.

(10) At the breaking of every fast, Allah, in His boundless grace, chooses people to deliver from Hellfire.