| 1 | O you who believe! Let it be said: Al-Qawwi; |
| 2 | The Strong; |
| 3 | And the sixty-eighth name of Allah, the One, the Absolute, the Almighty. |
| 4 | Before the Way of Islam, men did become animals in time of famine and war; |
| 5 | That they would think of nothing but filling their stomachs, letting stores waste. |
| 6 | Thus men who are hungry without morality or knowledge quickly become like the Umay-Yad and monkeys that eat one another. |
| 7 | Yet the Way of Islam teaches all to grow food, to tend a flock, to store and use water and to prosper. |
| 8 | Before the Way of Islam, when a city was blessed with prosperity, officials would themselves grow corrupt and incompetent; |
| 9 | So that in time stores and grain would be stolen, food would spoil and the prosperity wasted and famine would return. |
| 10 | Thus, the danger for all communities is to have nothing or to have too much. |
| 11 | How then does a community that prospers under the Way of Islam serve the will of Allah? |
| 12 | By an act of piety that reminds all of the dangers of complacency. |
| 13 | This is the sacred act of fasting (Ramadhan). |
| 14 | For the cycle of one Moon, all adults who are faithful to the Way of Islam, |
| 15 | Are called upon to pledge and oath, to better themselves and to fast between dawn and sunset; |
| 16 | For all meals before dawn and after sunset, let the faithful abstain from all forms of flesh; |
| 17 | For all contact, during the sacred time, |
| 18 | Let there be no intimate relations, nor partaking in such worldly pleasures but meditation and prayer. |
| 19 | For this, Allah asks that all who are blessed in this knowledge remember what has been gained. |
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Sufa 96 - The Fast (Al-Sawm)