Fasting during Ramadan teaches Muslims important lessons like patience, controlling desires, feeling compassion for the poor, and avoiding useless activities like excessive TV, chatting, internet surfing, smoking and gossiping. It makes us appreciate the blessings Allah gives us and feel humility by experiencing hunger and thirst. Fasting also weakens the influence of Satan and multiplies rewards between 10 to 700 times. Hadith encourage fasting to enter paradise and be protected from hellfire.