Hassan ibn Ahmad reported: He asked the commander of the faithful Al-Ma’mun ‘Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, may Allah have mercy on him, “Is there any benefit to fasting in the wisdom?” Al-Ma’mun said, “Allah Almighty knows what the impoverished endure of severe hunger, so He made the rich perform fasting that by necessity they might taste the flavor of hunger, such that they do not forget the severe hunger of the impoverished.”
Source: al-Tabṣirah li-Ibn al-Jawzī 2/74
Ibn Rajab reported: Some of the righteous predecessors were asked, “Why has fasting been instituted?” They said, “That the rich will taste hunger and thus will not forget the hungry.”
Source: Laṭāʼif al-Maʻārif 1/168
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