the sustenance that comes from remembering Him. His heart becomes so attached to that remembrance that he forgets food and drink altogether and feels no need for them.
We ourselves know that when a person is deeply absorbed in some worldly concern he may forget to eat or drink; the poets even make this point when they say:
Her conversations, filled with memories of you, keep her occupied,
Diverting her from the drink and distracting her from provision.
In other words, whenever she begins to speak about you, those conversations preoccupy her so completely that she neglects both drink and food.
Thus the Prophet ﷺ, because of the strength of his attachment to his Lord, when he would rise in the night for devotional prayer, Allah Almighty endowed him—through that remembrance—with a strength that made food and drink unnecessary. We, however, are not like him; for this reason he forbade consecutive fasting and made clear that it is one of his exclusive privileges.
The author then cited the Almighty’s words: “But no, by your Lord, they do not truly believe until they make you judge concerning whatever disputes arise among them, then feel no discomfort within themselves about what you have decided, and submit with full submission” (al-Nisāʾ 4:65).
[Explanation]
Among the verses the author—may Allah have mercy on him—quoted to show the duty of preserving the Sunnah and observing its etiquette is the statement of the Most High: “But no, by your Lord, they do not truly believe until they make you judge concerning whatever disputes arise among them, then feel no discomfort within themselves about what you have decided, and submit with full submission.” This verse is connected to what precedes it, namely the words of the Almighty: “O you who…"