What Are the Objectives of Fasting?

Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

What Are the Objectives of Fasting?

In this video, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani details how acts of devotion in Islam express one’s faith in Allah, particularly through fasting. He also lists many wisdoms attached to the prescription of fasting.

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani spent ten years studying with some of the leading scholars of recent times, first in Damascus and then in Amman, Jordan. His teachers include the foremost theologian of recent times in Damascus, the late Shaykh Adib al-Kallas (may Allah have mercy on him), as well as his student Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, one of the leading Hanafi fuqaha of the present age. He returned to Canada in 2007, where he founded SeekersGuidance in order to meet the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge–both online and on the ground–in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner. Since 2011, Shaykh Faraz has been named one of the 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.