Fasting reward is unlimited
Bismillah, walhamdulillah, wasshollatu was salam ala Rasulillah. Wa ba'du.
We are currently in the season of reward. Where in one month, we run a worship that the reward is absolutely great. That is fasting, whose reward is limitless.
All the deeds of Allah are multiplied into ten times.
Allah ta'ala says,
من جاء بالحسنة فله عشر أمثالها
Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have ten times the like thereof [to his credit], and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.
Shaykh Abdurrahman As Sa'di rahimahullah explained in his tafsir,
هذا أقل ما يكون من التضعيف
This ten times multiply, is a minimal multiple of any charity ...
(see: Taisir Karimir Rahman, on the interpretation of the above verse).
some are lucky get multiples of more reward than that, ie up to 700 times, even more, depending on the quality of worship.
Interestingly for fasting, the increment of the reward is unlimited. Rasulullah shallallahu'alahiwa sallam preach,
كل عمل ابن آدم يضاعف الحسنة عشر أمثالها إلى سبعمائة ضعف قال الله عز وجل إلا الصوم فإنه لى وأنا أجزى به يدع شهوته وطعامه من أجلى
"Every deed of human kindness will be doubled to ten times rewards, up to seven hundred times. Allah Ta'ala says, "Except fasting. The reward of fasting is for Me. And I myself will repay it. He has abandoned lust and eat it because of Me. "
(Muslim)
Why is that?
In the book of Majalis Syahru Ramadan, Shaykh Ibn 'Utsaimin rahimahullah explained,
والصيام صبر على طاعة الله, وصبر عن محارم الله و صبر على أقدار الله المؤلمة من الجوع و العطش وضعف البدن والنفسوفقد اجتمعت فيه أنواع الصبر الثلاثة, وتحقق أن يكون الصائم من الصابرين, وقد قال الله تعالى: إنما يوفى الصابرون أجرهم بغير حساب
Fasting contains:
Patience in obedience to God,
Forbear not to strike God's prohibition,
And patience for God's destiny, such as hunger, thirst and weak physical and mental condition.
At fasting, these three kinds of patience collect. So that the fasting person can reach the degree of the patient. While God says,
إنما يوفى الصابرون أجرهم بغير حساب
Say, "O My servants who have believed, fear your Lord. For those who do good in this world is good, and the earth of Allah is spacious. Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without account.".
Allah ta'ala gives a global picture of how such unlimited reward.
فلا تعلم نفس ما أخفي لهم من قرة أعين جزاء بما كانوا يعملون
And no soul knows what has been hidden for them of comfort for eyes as reward for what they used to do.
That is the reward, the pleasure of which has never been felt by our minds, never felt by our sense of taste and also never seen by our eyes. That is, you can imagine the most enjoyment of the favors you want, God's rewards more and more than that. Favors above the favors, which never imagined the joy.
So very loss, when an unwarranted syar'i not fasting.
May we be among the lucky ones.
Wallahua'lam bis showab.
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