Infographic: Three Levels of Ramadan Fasting

Infographic: Three Levels of Ramadan Fasting

Sawm of the Lay (Fasting for Ordinary People)

Basic level

• Abstaining from food and drink

• Abstaining from sexual relations with one’s spouse

• Focusing on the outward aspects

• The most basic spiritual value

Sawm of the Special People (Fasting for Special People)

Intermediate level

• Abstaining from hunger and thirst

• Guarding the hearing from vice

• Guarding the gaze

• Guarding the tongue

• Guarding the whole body from sin

• Fasting in outward and inward

Sawm of the Most Privileged of the Privileged (Highest Fasting)

Highest level

• Controlling the heart (qalb) from the nafs

• Avoiding excessive worldly thoughts

• Focusing solely on Allah SWT

• The world is viewed as a field of deeds

• An orientation entirely towards the Hereafter

The Verse Commanding Ramadan Fasting

O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous. (Qur’an, Surah Al-Baqarah, 183)

Arabic original:

يٰٓاَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِيْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُوْنَۙ

Yā ayyuhal-lażīna āmanū kutiba ’alaikumuṣ-ṣiyāmu kamā kutiba ’alal-lażīna min qablikum la‘allakum tattaqūn(a).

“Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, diwajibkan atas kamu berpuasa sebagaimana diwajibkan atas orang-orang sebelum kamu agar kamu bertakwa.” (QS Al-Baqarah Ayat 183)

Pengolah: Ani Nursalikah/Fuji Eka Permana

Sumber: Ihya Ulumuddin – Imam Al-Ghazali