The Hadiths Corruption Of The Word SIAM

What The Sectarians Claim:
The "Siyam" is intended to teach Muslims patience and self-control, and to remind them of the less fortunate in the world. The fast is also seen as a debt owed by the Muslim to God. Faithful observance of the "Siyam" is believed to atone for personal faults and misdeeds, at least in part, and to help earn a place in paradise. It is also believed to be beneficial for personal conduct, that is, to help control impulses, passions and temper. The fast is also meant to provide time for meditation and to strengthen one's faith.
While fasting in the month of Ramadan is considered "Fard "(obligatory), Islam also prescribes certain days for non-obligatory, voluntary fasting, such as:

• The 13th, 14th, and 15th of every lunar month
• Each Monday and Thursday of a week
• Six days in the month of Shawwal (the month following Ramadan)
• Every other day, also known as the fast of the prophet David

Fasting is forbidden on these days:

• Eid Fitr (1st Shawwal) and Eid Adha (10th Dhulhijjah) - According to all Muslims.
• Tashriq (11th, 12th, 13th Dhulhijjah) - According to the Sunnis only.
• The Day of Arafat (9th of Dhu al-Hijjah in the Hijri(Islamic calendar)). (Again, according to Sunnis only - Only pilgrims to Mecca are forbidden to fast.)
• The Day of Ashura, which is the tenth day of Muharram (first month in Islamic Calendar.)) (Haraam for South Asian Shia only, Makruh for most other Shia).

Although fasting at Ramadan is fard (obligatory), exceptions are made for persons in particular circumstances:

• Prepubescent children; though some parents will encourage their children to fast earlier for shorter periods, so the children get used to fasting.
• Unconditional vomiting because the food leaves through an unintentional part of the gut.
• Serious illness; the days lost to illness will have to be made up after recovery.
• If one is traveling but one must make up any days missed upon arriving at one's destination.
• A woman during her menstrual period; although she must count the days she missed and make them up later but before arrival of the next Ramadan.
• A woman till forty days after giving birth to child or miscarriage. But she must count the day she missed in Ramadan and make up later but before the arrival of the next Ramadan.
• An ill person or old person who is not physically able to fast. They should donate the amount of a normal person's diet for each day missed if they are financially capable.
• A mentally ill person.
• For elders who will not be able to fast, a lunch meal (or an equivalent amount of money) is to be donated to the poor or needy for each day of missed fasting.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting#Islam

If you claim to not follow hadith, why do you follow hadith claiming that SIAM means refrain from food, drink and relation with ones wife.. exactly like the hadiths are claiming? you make that type of fasting obligatory on yourself, just like the hadith-followers! SIAM صوم means refrain/abstine from something, indeed, but not from food, drink and relation with ones wife.. how could it be so? refraining from these things for an extended time puts one and others in serious health risks, SIAM is a punishment not a blessing! why forbid the good things which God has made lawful to you? 

Ṣawm is derived from Syriac: ṣawmā. Literally, it means "to abstain", cognates to Hebrew tsom. Wikipedia

The words "food" and "drink" have been added to the meaning of SAIM. The Arab scholars have a long history in changing the meanings of Arabic words (among altering their months.). Words like "haram" which means forbidden suddenly becomes "sacred" while mentioned with Mecca or "Ramadan",  "hijab" becomes head cover for women (also covering a woman's entire body accept face, hands and feet), "hajj" becomes pilgrimage to Mecca, "qibla" becomes prayer direction towards Mecca, "Bakka" becomes "Mecca", God's "Sunna" becomes Mohammad's "sunna", etc. have been altered!

Siam

Most of the time the Quran uses "siam" as a punishment [2:183-187], but while mentioned with "Ramadan" it all of a sudden becomes a blessing? I wonder why God would prescribe a punishment upon us if we have done nothing wrong? Perhaps the word "siam" means something else than refraining from food, drink and relation with ones wife? After all, food, drink and relation with wife are good for you, and why make something unlawful which God has made lawful to you?

Have you ever become "Mutaqi" by your fasting? No, you have only become hungry, thirsty and weak have you not? Some also becomes irritated and dizzy. No wonder since you refrain from food and drink. You would really dislike to fast in the desert would you not? no water in the desert during the hottest days of the month must really be dangerous for one's health! Why would God put us into danger? make us miserable, put hardship on His sincere followers?

O you who believe! SIAM are prescribed to you, as they were prescribed to those before you, so that you become MUTAQI. [Quran, 2:183]

Siam is mentioned in [2:183-187].

Siam basically means to stop, cease or discontinue.

To stop whatever someone is doing.

Arabic dictionary define "al-siam" as to stop speech or action.

The hadiths claim "siam" means to stop eating, drinking and intimate relation with wife.

Fasting (refraining from food and drink) makes you "muttaqi" (rightous/god-fearing)? really?

Quran about who are "mutaqi":
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation:)
It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in salat, and practice zakat; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah.fearing.

Only those who posses the qualities mentioned above can be called mutaqi.

So you really think that God wants to put hardship on His believers? If you have to stop doing something to be righteous, then what by common sense should you  stop doing? something which is bad or can become bad if you keep doing it, right? is it really food and drink and relation with ones wife? the good things which God has provided for us? No, I do not think so, it must be something else

We should take a closer look at the previous verses to understand "siam".

Like [2:182]
It speaks about that if someone fears that injustice has happened, then correct it, and then make peace with it. Siam, stop doing wrong, stop doing injustice.

Peace.