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Sawm (or fasting) has the following benefits that:

* Showing obedience to ALLAH (God) and tendency to be closer to Allah (God in English) mercy and forgiveness.

* Gaining spiritual self purification and full submission to ALLAH (God).

* Gaining motivation not to approach what is prohibited to be done by religion. If you are used, during fasting, to forbid yourself from eating food, drinking, doing sex with your partner of marriage (things that are allowed out of fasting) then you will be used to forbid yourself from doing what is prohibited to be done as drinking Alcohol, gambling, prostitution, cheating, etc...

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What is sawm.?

Sawm is an Arabic word that means fasting. Sawm; per Islam teachings and Quran; is to stop eating, drinking, smoking, and practicing sex from dawn to sunset. It is one of the five Islam pillars to fast during the month of Ramadan (except for some people on certain conditions) and voluntarily to fast other days of the year.


When does sawm take place?

Sawm, or fasting, takes place during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Muslims fast from dawn to sunset during this time, abstaining from food, drink, smoking, and certain other activities. The fast is broken with iftar, the evening meal.


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Sawm is the Arabic name for fasting during the month of Ramadam


How are zakat and sawm similar?

They are two of the five pillars of Islam. By Sawm you prevent yourself from eating and drinking to feel hunger and sympathy with poor people who do not have anything to eat so you got motivated to pay zakat to support them.


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Because fasting Ramadan is a pillar of the five pillars of Islam, fast ( sawm).


What is Sawn in Muslim words?

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'shadah' meaning testimony. namaz/salat 'sawm' meaning fast hajj zakat quran (the Islamic holy book) n.b need more just ask.


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