QUESTION: If I intend to break my fast, is my fasting still valid?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
27 Mar

ANSWER: If you firmly intended to break it, it is broken

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QUESTION: I woke up for suhoor and thought it was 4 AM (before Fajr). After I finished eating, I checked the time and realized it was already 5 AM and Fajr had begun. Is my fast still valid?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
23 Mar

ANSWER: If you ate thinking it was still before Fajr, your fast is valid due to your ignorance

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QUESTION: Sheikh, I have a habit of biting my inner lip or my inner cheek and sometimes very small pieces of skin can be bitten off, sometimes it would also be too small to remove from the mouth, would swallowing this break the fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
03 Mar

ANSWER: Yes, swallowing this intentionally would break your fast

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QUESTION: If someone has a habit of picking at their skin, so they pick at their pimples and their scabs purposely and blood and comes out, does that break their fast? For example, If they pick at their skin, hoping not to draw blood and blood ends us coming out, is their fast broken?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
26 Feb

ANSWER: This has no impact on their fast

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QUESTION: Is fasting obligatory for a woman who weighs 38 kilos, is 160 cm tall, has anemia, and struggles to eat two meals a day?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
17 Feb

ANSWER: Fasting is mandatory upon every Muslim individual who has reached puberty and is free from obstacles that prevent him/her from fasting such as traveling, menses or illness that doctors say that fasting would harm or endanger a person if they were to fast.

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QUESTION: If during fasting, after a long time in the day, there are deposits on the teeth that feel sticky when the teeth are pressed together, and one swallows them, does it break the fast?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
17 Feb

ANSWER: If its a mass and you swallow it intentionally then yes, it breaks the fast.

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QUESTION: Can we apply Vaseline while fasting, if so, what happens if you lick your lips, would this invalidate fasting if you didn’t taste anything or didnt feel any mass or taste?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
10 Feb

ANSWER: No problem in applying it as long as you don’t swallow or eat it.

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QUESTION: Is there an authentic Hadith suggesting that the supplication (dua) made specifically before Maghrib throughout the thirty days of Ramadan is guaranteed to be accepted?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
06 Feb

ANSWER: The duaa which a person who is fasting at the time of breaking his fast is answered.

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QUESTION: What is the ruling on only fasting the 13,14 and 15 of shaban and not the 13,14 and 15 of other months?

Fasting
05 Feb

ANSWER: No problem if their intention is to fast the 3 white days

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QUESTION: In Ramadan my mom makes iftar and im really hungry so i sit and eat for some time and then pray maghrib in home with my brother or sometimes alone and skip prayer of maghrib only because im eating. is it permissible?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
04 Feb

ANSWER: No! Eat a date, a few things to satiate your hunger a bit, go pray in the masjid and come back and eat.

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