Fasting

QUESTION: Please can you clarify, some scholars say its not permissible to fast only on a Saturday one must fast a day before or after and this year Arafah happens to falls on a Saturday so they said one must fast on Friday too, How true is this?

Fasting

15 Jun

ANSWER: This is an issue of dispute and the most authentic opinion chosen by our scholars like ibn Othaimeen that there is no problem in fasting Saturday alone when there is a legitimate reason such as arafat or a’ashora or the fasting of Dawood peace be upon him

QUESTION: 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 year, 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

13 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

QUESTION: I did an obligatory fast and then I couldn’t remember if I did niyya. Valid?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

09 Jun

ANSWER: If you don’t remember then you must make up that fast.

QUESTION: If I fast 6 days in Shawwal on behalf of my deceased mother (after fasting for myself) will she get reward of whole year fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Fiqh of the family, Funerals

07 Jun

ANSWER: This is not permissible as its an innovation and she won’t receive any rewards for that.

QUESTION: Can I fast 10 days of zilhijjah & make an intension of missed fast of ramdhan as well?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

02 Jun

ANSWER: Yes, this is permissible.

QUESTION: I plan to fast 9 days of dhulhijjah (IA). My initial intention of fasting is to obtain reward, but I fear my intention has changed in my head & I am now fasting bec I want to lose weight. 1. will I still be rewarded for fasting regardless of intention. 2. if not, then what should I do.

Fasting

01 Jun

ANSWER: Change your intention and make it primarily for the sake of Allah and losing weight is a byproduct of that.

QUESTION: A woman had intercourse with her husband while she was repaying her Ramadan missed fast. She forgot to tell her husband she was going to fast the night before and in the morning he approached her then she told him she was fasting but he went ahead anyways. Will she do kaffarra?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

09 May

ANSWER: No, the kaffarah is not the same as it is only for intercourse during the day time of Ramadan. She must only keep that fast again. If he forced her and she was not willing all the time, her fast is valid. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/40242/does-expiation-have-to-be-offered-for-having-intercourse-when-making-up-a-missed-ramadaan-fast

QUESTION: Can I disobey my mother and fast on Mondays, Thursdays, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th of the month? I’ve often fast, but due to long bus travels and extreme weather in India, my mother worries and only permits fasting on weekends. Will I still receive the same reward for obeying my mother and not fasting? Can I still enter from ar-Rayyan?

Fasting, Fiqh of the family

01 May

ANSWER: You are not obliged to obey your parents in leaving voluntary fasts when there is no hardship on you and fasting won’t hinder you from serving them properly.

QUESTION: I work and live in a place 350 km (7hrs journey )far from Home same country . Hometown and workplace ramadan started same day . I was in my workplace when it started. I was there till 29 iftar after that my hometown moon was spotted at that night i went home and celebrated eid . But at my workplace they completed 30 days. Do i have to make it up

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

23 Apr

ANSWER: Yes, you need to make up one day as you left your workplace at night and this meant that you are obliged to fast the following day as they did not see the crescent.

QUESTION: I came from India to Makkah on 1st April/22nd fast of Ramadan after my exams, and my total fasts are 29. Should I make one fast up before fasting for Shawwal or do my fasts end with the local people of Makkah?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan

17 Apr

ANSWER: As long as you have completed 29 fasts, you don’t have to keep one more fast if you did not skip any day in ramadan

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