{"id":30708,"date":"2018-06-08T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/how-to-perform-fasting\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:19:24","slug":"how-to-perform-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/how-to-perform-fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting in\u00a0<a title=\"All About Ramadan (1434\/2013)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/featured\/all-about-ramadan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the month of Ramadan\u00a0<\/a>is one of\u00a0<a title=\"The Five Pillars of Islam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/abcs-of-islam\/pillars-of-islam\/five-pillars-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the five pillars<\/a>\u00a0upon which the structure of Islam is built. The other four are\u00a0<a title=\"The Declaration of Faith: Between Text and Meaning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/featured\/the-declaration-of-faith-between-text-and-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the declaration of one\u2019s belief<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"True Monotheism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/abcs-of-islam\/divine-unity\/tawheed-real-monotheism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">God\u2019s oneness\u00a0<\/a>and in<a title=\"The Message of the Messengers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/abcs-of-islam\/the-message-of-the-messengers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0the message of Muhammad\u00a0<\/a>(peace be upon him), regular attendance to prayer, payment of zakah (i.e. obligatory charity), and the pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>Fasting is a cool thing to do in the modern world and there are so many health and medical benefits in fasting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Learn about <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/featured\/all-about-ramadan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramadan <\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">and the benefits and rulings of fasting and so much more in this episode of <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeenshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Deen Show<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> with guest Dr. Mamdouh Mohamed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is fasting? 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What are the rulings and conditions of fasting during the blessed month of Ramadan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[216,11978,224,11866,8536,11867,7442,11984,7,3876,2671,341,2672,11985,1134,4557,51,11987,2673,2674,2344,3417,11990,11991,11992,3418,8033,11994,11995,6705,11996,11997,11998,18034,11999,12000,12001,12002,12003],"class_list":["post-30708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-last-miracle","tag-acts-of-worship","tag-definition-of-sawm","tag-fasting","tag-fasting-in-christianity","tag-fasting-in-islam","tag-fasting-in-judaism","tag-fasting-of-ramadan","tag-fasting-an-act-of-worship","tag-featured","tag-five-pillars-of-islam","tag-gossip","tag-islam","tag-lying","tag-meaning-of-sawm","tag-media","tag-month-of-ramadan","tag-muslims","tag-observing-fasting","tag-peacetv","tag-propaganda","tag-ramadan","tag-sawm","tag-sawm-of-ramadan","tag-sawm-of-the-month-of-ramadan","tag-significance-of-ramadan-in-islam","tag-siyam","tag-siyam-of-ramadan","tag-the-blessed-month","tag-the-definition-of-fasting","tag-the-fourth-pillar-of-islam","tag-the-meaning-of-fasting","tag-the-obligation-of-fasting","tag-the-reward-of-fasting-in-ramadan","tag-the-wisdom-of-the-legislation-of-fasting","tag-the-worship-of-fasting","tag-what-does-sawm-mean","tag-what-is-fasting","tag-what-is-fasting-in-islam","tag-worship-of-fasting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Perform Fasting - Discover Islam Kuwait Portal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/how-to-perform-fasting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Perform Fasting - Discover Islam Kuwait Portal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is fasting? 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