The Etiquettes of Fasting

From the etiquettes of fasting:

• Having Taqwa of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, by establishing His orders and abstaining from His prohibitions due to His saying:
  {O you who believe! Fasting has been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqoon (pious) [Al Baqarah:183]

  And the statement of the Prophet - صلى الله عليه وسلم:

  "Whoever does not forsake speaking and acting upon false speech and ignorance, then Allah is not in need of him/her forsaking food and drink."

• A fasting person should increase in giving Sadaqah, all forms of good and being beneficent to people, especially in Ramadan, for indeed the Messenger of Allah - صلى الله عليه وسلم - was the most active of people [in righteous actions], and he was at his most active state during Ramadan, when he used to meet Gibreel to review the Quran.

• A fasting person must avoid what Allah has prohibited for him/her, such as lying, insulting, cheating, treachery, looking at and listening to impermissible things, and all other prohibitions that a person must avoid, whether fasting or not, the prohibition is emphasized for the fasting person however.

• From the etiquettes is that a fasting person eats Sahoor and delays it, due to the saying of the Prophet - صلى الله عليه وسلم :
  "Eat Sahoor, for indeed there is a blessing in Sahoor."

• Also from the etiquettes; is for the fasting person to break his fast with Rutab [moist dates], if they are unavailable then [dry] dates, if dates are unavailable then water. The fasting person must hasten to break the fast once the setting of the sun has been affirmed, or if he/she believes it is most likely to have set, this is due to the saying of the Prophet - صلى الله عليه وسلم:
  "People will continue to be upon goodness as long as they hasten to break the fast."