{"id":1492,"date":"2021-04-08T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/the-secret-of-fasting-in-ramadan\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:15:29","slug":"the-secret-of-fasting-in-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/the-secret-of-fasting-in-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret of Fasting in Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting is not purely intended for deprivation of food and drink and lawful sexual relations.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, fasting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/featured\/why-do-muslims-fast-ramadan\/\">serves other purposes<\/a> as well, such as uplifting the spirit of a fasting believer and giving him or her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/acts-of-worship\/fasting_siyam\/ramadan-its-time-to-know-your-inner-self\/\">self-restraint and control over vain desires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To know more about the secrets of fasting, watch this lecture by Sheikh Yasir Birjas&#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\/IJRK4rqDhLI?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>Fasting is not purely intended for deprivation of food and drink and lawful sexual relations. In fact, fasting serves other purposes as well, such as uplifting the spirit of a fasting believer and giving him or her self-restraint and control over vain desires. To know more about the secrets of fasting, watch this lecture by Sheikh Yasir Birjas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"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-1492","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\/88888.jpg?fit=410%2C408&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-o4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","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=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}