Fasting in the Bible and Quran

 

Ramadan - Fasting (Quran, Bible, Torah)

{Qur'an 2:183 } (O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous)

{bible Matthew 4:2}  (After fasting forty days and forty nights, he (Jesus) was hungry.)

{Torah Exodus 34:28}

(Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments.)

{Bible 2 Samuel 12:16} (David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground.)

{Bible Ezra 8:21}  (There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.)

{Bible Ezra 8:21} (There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.)

{Bible Joel 2:13} (Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart,with fasting and weeping and mourning.”)

{Bible Zechariah 8:19}

(This is what the LORD Almighty says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.")

{Bible 2 Chronicles 20:3}

(Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.)

{Judges 20:26} (Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.)

{Esther 4:3{  (In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.) {

Torah Psalm 35:13}  (Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting.

When my prayers returned to me unanswered)

{Daniel 10:2-3}  (In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.)