{"id":1486,"date":"2021-04-08T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/fasting-from-ones-desires\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:15:27","slug":"fasting-from-ones-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/fasting-from-ones-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting From One&#8217;s Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims all over the world wait eagerly for the yearly coming of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/featured\/ramadan-raining-with-mercy\/\">Ramadan<\/a> during which they fast, recite the Qur&#8217;an, and perform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/acts-of-worship\/prayers-salat\/the-night-prayer\/\"><em>qiyam <\/em><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/acts-of-worship\/prayers-salat\/the-night-prayer\/\"><em>Night Vigil Prayer<\/em><\/a>). Fasting is by no means an easy obligation to carry out.<\/p>\n<h2>Fasting from Vain Desires<\/h2>\n<p>Yet, harder still is to fast from one&#8217;s vain desires and bad habits. In this lecture, Sheikh Bilal Assad sheds light on the latter type of fasting&#8230;<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nLlHFMAlKwo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Muslims all over the world wait eagerly for the yearly coming of Ramadan, yet, harder still is to fast from one&#8217;s vain desires and bad habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[341,2],"tags":[6514,1222,2510,1284,6515,110,167,1497,6516,1108,1499,423,568,265,145,6517,732,1094,1252,1026,1029,232,233],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acts-of-worship","category-new-muslims","tag-abstain","tag-allah","tag-believers","tag-eid-al-fitr","tag-fast","tag-fasting","tag-featured","tag-islam","tag-month-of-fasting","tag-month-of-the-quran","tag-muslims","tag-night-prayer","tag-one-god","tag-pillars-of-islam","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-qiyam","tag-quran","tag-ramadan","tag-sadaqah","tag-sawm","tag-siyam","tag-worship-in-islam","tag-zakah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Fasting-From-Ones-Desires.jpg?fit=700%2C519&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-nY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}