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ANSWER: There’s no Verbal intention before breaking the fast as this is an innovation Once the sun sets and the athan is called, you simply break the fast by saying bismillah

QUESTION: A person lives in non Muslim country and no Muslim authority, and rely on apps for timing. They used Turkish calculation but changed to UmmAlQura few weeks ago. Today they woke up very thirsty 1 min after Fajr entered, so they changed calculation to Turkish and it showed that it’s 2 min until Farj so they drank water. Are they playing with religion?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

28 Mar

ANSWER: Yes, they are playing with the religion!

QUESTION: Hounarable sheikh,if I lead the prayer here,they will stipulate that I have to make dua. In this case can I just do as a bare minimum that I rasie my hands and recite the adhkar of prayer laillaha illahu wahdahu…. loudly or make a dua or two if I am forced to?

Innovations, Prayer, Schools of Thought

28 Mar

ANSWER: It is not permissible to participate with them in such an innovation Either they accept you as you are by following the sunnah or you don’t lead them in prayer.

QUESTION: Is it true that we should not give zakat if he/she has gold though they are very poor. Kindly explain this.

Zakat

28 Mar

ANSWER: If they are poor and the amount of gold is minimum which women usually need to adorn themselves with, we don’t need to expect them to sell their gold or their clothes before giving them zakat!

QUESTION: My local mosque does not accept zakat ul fitr in the form of food, is it permissible for me to give my mosque money?

Fasting and Ramadan, Zakat

27 Mar

ANSWER: If the masjid buys and gives food items to poor Muslims with that money then no problem. But if they only hand them cash, this is not valid.

QUESTION: If it rains or will making wudu some water goes on my lips and I put them in my mouth to remove them does this count as drinking and does it break my fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

27 Mar

ANSWER: If you intentionally swallow such rain water or any type of water like this, this breaks your fast.

QUESTION: In my family we have lots of debt. But the jewellery we have at home is above nisab, but we are middle class. What we earn in a month spent in the same month, is zakah fard to us?if yes then what we do? But we don’t want to sell the jewelleries

Zakat

27 Mar

ANSWER: If the jewelry reaches the nisab (threshold) or exceeds it, you must give zakat on it every year, whether by using your cash or by selling parts of it if you don’t have cash. Failing to do so would admit you to hellfire where the same jewelry you are refusing to sell would be […]

QUESTION: If i stole a drink or food while im in the time of fasting and then had it for iftar would this break my fast? If it does would i have to fast the days i did robbed even if i didnt know this.

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

27 Mar

ANSWER: You have committed a major sin that would reduce the rewards of your fasting to almost zero.

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