إِنَّ الصِّيَامَ لَيْسَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ وَ الشَّرَابِ وَحْدَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ قَالَتْ مَرْيَمُ إِنِّي نَذَرْتُ لِلرَّحْمنِ صَوْماً أَيْ صَوْماً صَمْتاً وَ فِي نُسْخَةٍ أُخْرَى أَيْ صَمْتاً فَإِذَا صُمْتُمْ فَاحْفَظُوا أَلْسِنَتَكُمْ وَ غُضُّوا أَبْصَارَكُمْ وَ لَا تَنَازَعُوا وَ لَا تَحَاسَدُوا قَالَ وَ سَمِعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) امْرَأَةً تَسُبُّ جَارِيَةً لَهَا وَ هِيَ صَائِمَةٌ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) بِطَعَامٍ فَقَالَ لَهَا كُلِي فَقَالَتْ إِنِّي صَائِمَةٌ فَقَالَ كَيْفَ تَكُونِينَ صَائِمَةً وَ قَدْ سَبَبْتِ جَارِيَتَكِ إِنَّ الصَّوْمَ لَيْسَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ وَ الشَّرَابِ قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا صُمْتَ فَلْيَصُمْ سَمْعُكَ وَ بَصَرُكَ مِنَ الْحَرَامِ وَ الْقَبِيحِ وَ دَعِ الْمِرَاءَ وَ أَذَى الْخَادِمِ وَ لْيَكُنْ عَلَيْكَ وَقَارُ الصِّيَامِ وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ يَوْمَ صَوْمِكَ كَيَوْمِ فِطْرِكَ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Al Qasim Bin Suleyman, from Jarrah Al Madainy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The Fasting is not from the food and the drink alone’. Then said: ‘Maryam<sup>as</sup> said: <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:19#h26"><a href="/books/quran:19#h26">[19:26]</a></a> Surely I have vowed a fast to the Beneficent</span>, i.e., a Fast of silence’. (And in another copy: ‘i.e., silence). Therefore, whenever you Fast, preserve your tongues, and lower your gaze, and neither dispute not envy’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> heard a woman insulting a maid of her and she was Fasting. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> called for the food and said to her: ‘Eat’. So she said, ‘I am Fasting’. So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘How can you happen to be Fasting and you have insulted your slave girl. The Fast is not from the food and the drink (only)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Whenever you Fast, so let your hearing, and your vision Fast from the Prohibition and the ugliness, and leave the disputing and hurting the servant, and let the dignity of the Fast be upon you, and do not make the day of your Fasting to be like a day of your breaking (not Fasting)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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