What are the pillars of fasting?
Abstaining from the desires of the stomach and sexual relations Abstaining from that which breaks one’s fast Maaliki and Shafi’i added another pillar, which is making the intention to fast […]
What is the Islamic definition of fasting?
It is abstaining from that which breaks one’s fast during the daytime period, from dawn to sunset.
Fwd: too thirsty to fast ( Email with no Question) ??? Is it premissible to break our fast due to thirst and findding difficult without drinking anything?
The person must continue his/her fast and if it gets too difficult to continue as you described, then a person can break his/her fast and make it up later.
I had sohoor intending that I was following my mobile app of athan time, then double checked IAR and discovered that fajer passed according to IAR time table. I committed to IAR schedule after that but my neighbor didnt know about this difference until the end of ramadhan. Do I need to re-fast? IAR has around a 15 min lead on fajer time than Ibad rahman and the athan app.
You do not need to re-fast any day since Fajir time tables are all estimated and you did not know at that time of the difference.
When someone is fasting as Kafara (expiation) consecutive 60 days, but the same normal exemptions apply to breaking the fast. Just so that I am clear, am I allowed to break the fast due to travel for example and resume the fasting after travel is completed and still be considered consecutive?
If a person has fasted some days of the expiation, then something happens that is a legitimate excuse such as sickness or travel, or if a woman menstruates or bleeds […]
If I take the conservative route and assume that the haram act was twice, thus 120 days would be required. Is it 120 consecutive days or two separate 60 consecutive day events? Also, remember you speaking of a limit (or amount of expiation days considered impractical?), but I can not find it in my notes. Can you refresh my memory?
You can take a break after the first set of 60 days. So you don’t have to fast the 120 consecutive. There are some scholars who believe that one expiation […]
Mixed opinions on this and wanted to ask if you can combine the intention for making up days from ramadan and the 6 days of shawwal ?
You can fast the six days of Shawwal either immediately after the Eid day or delay them. You can also fast them either sequentially or separately throughout the month of […]
My wife had some missed days of fasting while pregnant and then nursing our sons. Can she give fidya/kaffara for those missed days ? she has missed 45 days and shes in her early 30’s with two kids, 5 yrs and 10 months. What do you advise on how we proceed?
First obligation would be for her to make up those days with no kafara because she had a legitimate Islamic reason to break her fast. Even if several Ramadans are […]
