{"id":1787,"date":"2011-08-11T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2011-08-04T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T04:02:14","slug":"the-fast-of-the-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/the-fast-of-the-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fast of the Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ramadannn.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1792\" title=\"ramadannn\" src=\"http:\/\/muzlimbuzz.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ramadannn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ramadannn.jpg 333w, https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ramadannn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ramadannn-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fast of the ordinary people is <strong>abstaining from food, drink and sexual satisfaction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The fast of the elite is <strong>keeping one\u2019s ears, eyes, tongue, hands and feet \u2014 and all other organs \u2014 free from sin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The fast of the elite of the elite is the <strong>fasting of the heart from unworthy concerns and worldly thoughts<\/strong>, in total disregard of everything but Allah, Great and Glorious is He. This kind of fast is broken by thinking of worldly matters, except for those conducive to religious ends, since these constitute provision for the Hereafter and are not of this lower world.\u201d<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\u2014<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><em>Im\u0101m<\/em> <strong>Ab\u016b \u1e24\u0101mid Mu\u1e25ammad ibn Mu\u1e25ammad al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe fast of the ordinary people is abstaining from food, drink and sexual satisfaction. The fast of the elite is keeping one\u2019s ears, eyes, tongue, hands and feet \u2014 and all other organs \u2014 free from sin. The fast of the elite of the elite is the fasting of the heart from unworthy concerns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[585,401],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ramadan-resources","tag-breaking","tag-ramadan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplyislam.sg\/muslimbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}