Al-It'am Verse: Difference between revisions

'''Āyat al-Iṭ'ām''' (Arabic:{{ia| آية الإطعام}}) is [[verse]] number 8 of [[Sura al-Insan]] (76) of the [[Quran]] which was revealed with respect to [[Amir al-Mu'minin (a)]] and his family.<ref>See: Rūḥānīnīyā, ''Frūgh-i Ghadīr'', p. 146; Anṣārī, ''Ahl al-Bayt'', p. 173; Daylamī, ''Irshād al-qulūb'', vol. 2, p. 136.</ref> According to some [[hadiths]] and the views of [[Shi'a]] and some [[Sunni]] [[exegetes]] of the [[Quran]], [[Imam 'Ali (a)]], [[Fatima al-Zahra (a)]], [[Imam al-Hasan (a)]], [[Imam al-Husayn (a)]] and their servant, [[Fidda]], [[fast|fasted]] for three consecutive days, and in all the three days at the time of [[iftar]] (breaking the fast), they gave their food to a poor person, an orphan, and a prisoner, while they stayed hungry themselves.