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Fasting is the tradition of prophets. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) used to make special arrangements for fasting. Before his prophethood, The Holy Prophet (sa) used to fast on the tenth day of Muharram according to Arab custom. After his being commissioned to prophethood, he continued to keep this fast. He kept this fast in Madinah as well till the instructions of fasting in Ramadan were revealed. Besides fasts in Ramadan, he used to fast for most of the month of Sha’ban. In the other months of the year, he would start fasting and continue as if he would never stop. Then he would leave off fasting and it seemed he would never fast again.
He never abandoned fasting on the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth of the lunar month.
He quite often fasted in the first half of every month and usually fasted for three days. Generally, it would be the first Monday of the month and the following two Thursdays of the month.
He used to say that on Mondays and Thursdays, the deeds of a person are presented to God Almighty, and he liked to be in a state of fast at that time.
Muhammad (sa) – The Perfect Man (Qadian, India: Nazarat Isha’at, 2015), 269-270.
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