Sermon On The Mount And Quran

Fasting is mentioned both in the Quran and in the Sermon on The Mount, however, the Quran focuses more on why the believers should fulfill it and what they’re required to do if they can’t fulfill it during Ramadan, whereas in the Sermon on The Mount, the interpretation revolves around being genuine while fasting. According to the passages from the Quran, “ O believers, prescribed for you is the Fast, even as it was prescribed for those that were before you ---- haply you will be god fearing ---- for days numbered; and if any of you be sick, or if he be on a journey, then a number of other days” (8:238). The word prescribe was used because as an advice that a believer should take into consideration in order enter Heaven. In order to reach the gates of Heaven, it would be highly necessary for believers to fast
After they recover they are required to fast for the number of days that they missed during the Holy month. Contrarily, there wasn’t much descriptions or information on the ritual of fasting in the Sermon on The Mount as there was in the Quran. Instead, the passage on fasting focused on how a believer should look healthy and happy when they fast instead of being a hypocrite and showing off their “strong faith” in God to others. A quote that further illustrates this claim is, “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting” (12,16). Someone who wants to gain others respect and admiration would act like as if they are the biggest believers by publicly revealing their poor their condition when they fast which would indicate that they are fasting just for show. However, a true believer fasts for the sole religious purpose of fasting. He’d want only God to know the difficulties that he or she might face while performing the