The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said on the authority of his Lord Almighty that He said, “Every deed of the son of Adam is for him except fasting, for it is for Me and I will reward for it.

And he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said to a man, ‘You must fast, for there is no equal to him. ’

And God Almighty said, “There is nothing like Him, for fasting is an eternal characteristic, which is abstaining from nourishment and the reality of the created being from nourishment.” So when the servant wanted to be characterized by something that is not his true nature, he should be described by it, and his being described by it was legally based on the Almighty’s saying, “Fasting is decreed upon you as it was decreed upon those before you.” He said God owns fasting for me, not for you. That is, I am the one who should not eat and drink. And if it is like this and the reason for your entry into it is that I legislated it for you,