Abiding Quote by Umar

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night…

— Abu Dawood

“Exercise 1: Guarding the Prayer Once we are performing the five obligatory prayers with regularity, then it is certainly worth our efforts to begin…

— Hamza Yusuf

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids…

— John Calvin

“Fasting is the most powerful tool of Prayer”

— Vikas Johnson

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Fasting is more about replacing than it is about abstaining — replacing normal activities with focused times of prayer and feeding on the Word…

— Gary Rohrmayer

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of…

— Mahatma Gandhi