QUESTION: I want to know that if anyone has a severe disease. He or She couldn’t make obligatory fasts but he is also poor so he couldn’t feed poor people as well. what will he do?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
30 Jan

ANSWER: Nothing. Allah doesn’t burden a person beyond what he can bear.

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QUESTION: I used to think that if I have like discharge following menses, Ive to stop praying and fasting for 15 days. So I used to leave fasts for 15 days unintentionally, do I make up them too?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
25 Jan

ANSWER: If such discharges appeared after seeing your purity, you need to repeat your missed fasts as you were pure and must fast.

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QUESTION: I wanted to ask the procedure on how to make up for the fasts that were missed out during Ramadan for valid reasons. Do we have to fast for that number of days continuously or can there be a gap between them? For example: I fast starting Monday continue to Tuesday and then leave Wednesday.

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
02 Jan

ANSWER: They don’t necessarily have to be done consecutively. You can choose whatever day you want as long as you keep them before the following Ramadan. 

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QUESTION: Do we have to feed a person every day of Ramadan for mentally unstable man/woman?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
17 Dec

ANSWER: There is no feeding mandated for someone who is classified as insane as fasting is not obligatory upon him. 

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QUESTION: I want to ask regarding missed fast because of menstruation. Few years ago I came to know about make up of missed fast. What to do about those missed fast which I did not make up? And even after knowing to make up later I could made up for few years not all. How should I make up for those now as I don’t know the count of fasts. Please guide.

Fasting, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
09 Dec

ANSWER: Estimate an approximate number, add a couple more to it to be on safe side and keep them besides sincerely repenting to Allah while showing deep remorse for delaying them for this long.

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QUESTION: I’ll travel to KSA and stay there for 8 days in shaa’ Allaah. I’ve learned that the reward of fasting is more in the Haraam area of Makkah. But, I am a traveller. So, should I fast the Mondays and Thursdays in Makkah?

Fasting, Hajj and Umrah
30 Nov

ANSWER: It is not true what you have heard.  Fasting is up to your own preference as long as there is no hardship on you. 

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QUESTION: I know that we can’t fix a day and fast for Palestinians as it would be an innovation. But can we fast on any other day randomly with an intention to pray and make Dua for Palestinians?

Fasting, Innovations
09 Nov

ANSWER: No. You can fast any day you want for the sake of fasting and not for any other reason and then you can make as much dua as you want, especially before breaking the fast.

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QUESTION: Fasting the day of arafah expiates sins next year and previous year. If I fast on the day of Arafah, my minor sins next year will be expiated; does that mean that its okay for me to commit minor sins next year?

Fasting, Sins
26 Aug

ANSWER: Of course not!! If you do, you will be punished for them as you don’t know whether Allah had accepted your fasting or not.

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QUESTION: Is it mandatory to fast 9th and 10th of the muharram ? Or i can only fast on the 10th of muharram

Fasting
27 Jul

ANSWER: This is not mandatory but highly recommended.  You can fast only 10th as well.

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QUESTION: Sheikh, I really wanted to fast on the Day of Arafah this year, as I learnt about the Hadith that it expiates the sins of the previous and the upcoming years, but I got my periods, which was decreed for me by Allah. Will I get the reward, will my sins be forgiven (if I verbally seek Istaghfaar) while I cannot fast?

Fasting, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
26 Jun

ANSWER: You will be rewarded in Sha Allah for your intention. If you had a habit of fasting it every year in the past, you will be rewarded as if you had fasted it in Sha Allah 

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