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Benefits:
Fasting provides benefits for the soul, the society and health,
and they are as follows:
From the spiritual benefits of fasting is that it accustoms one to
patience and strengthens one’s patience. It teaches self-
restraint and helps one to practice it. It places the gift of piety
in the soul and cultivates it, and particularly the piety which is
the outstanding reason for fasting that is mentioned in Allah
the Almighty’s statement:
“Fasting has been made obligatory for you just as it was made
obligatory for those who were before you so that you have
Taqwa.” (2:138)