One essential component of khushoo’ is faith.

By: Asma Ayyaz
Allah says in the Qur’an: “And indeed it’s big except on the people of khushoo’” [Quran:2:45]
The word khushoo’ mentioned in the verse above is a combination of many things. But one essential component of khushoo’ is faith. It’s not a surprise then that the Prophet made faith a precondition for fasting to be effective. In the authentic hadith,
“Whoever fasts Ramadan out of faith while expecting its reward, then all his previous sins will be forgiven” [Bukhari and Muslim].
In other words, you treat fasting as a true and complete act of worship. We don’t do it out of habit, or because our family or our environment expects us to, but because we worship Allah through this act. If we break it down further, worship is made out of our pure love and utter submission. If we were to apply that to fasting, it means we fast out of pure love for Allah and out of utter submission to His command.
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