{"id":1541,"date":"2021-04-08T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/fast-ashura\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:17:56","slug":"fast-ashura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/fast-ashura\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Fast `Ashura\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is special about the day of `Ashura\u2019? What is the significance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/converts\/reflections\/ascending-in-the-levels-of-worship-eighteenth-stop-of-your-spiritual-journey-to-god\/\">fasting<\/a> the Day of `Ashura\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>About this day the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, \u201cFasting the day of `Ashura\u2019 (is of great merits), I hope that Allah will accept it as an expiation for (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/abcs-of-islam\/articles-of-faith\/believers-make-mistakes\/\">the sins<\/a> committed in) the previous year.\u201d (Muslim)<\/p>\n<p>In the video here Sheikh Waleed Basyouni provides answers to these questions, while reflecting on this <em>hadith<\/em> \u00a0\u2026<\/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\/b_EMqCGhqQY?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>What is special about the day of `Ashura\u2019? What is the significance of fasting on that day? In the video Sheikh Waleed Basyouni provides answers to these questions, reflecting on this hadith  \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1542,"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":[6607,1497,1666,6608,6609,1499,1219,6610],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acts-of-worship","category-new-muslims","tag-day-of-ashura","tag-islam","tag-jews","tag-mercy","tag-muharrah","tag-muslims","tag-sins","tag-volutariy-fasting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Why-Should-I-Fast-Ashura%E2%80%99.jpg?fit=567%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-oR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}