QUESTION: Can a fast be broken if I have the intention of breaking it in my mind but I actually don’t break it?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
18 Feb

ANSWER: If a random thought of breaking it crossed your mind but you didn’t break it, the fast is valid It is broken only when you had firmly intended to break it and considered yourself not fasting anymore. 

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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: Can i wash dishes in a restaurant during ramadan or would it be helping in sinning?

Fasting and Ramadan, Jobs
28 Aug

ANSWER: If they serve food during the day time, you are nor allowed to work there. 

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QUESTION: Can I do sunnah fasts if I haven’t completed the Ramadan debt yet?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
26 Jun

ANSWER: No problem but it would be wise to combine your missed fasts with the sunnah fasts to gain double the reward (except for Shawwal fasts)

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QUESTION: Do i have to make up for fasts that i made on my menses in the past? (i didn’t know then that it wasn’t allowed to fact during menses)

Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
05 May

ANSWER: Yes, you must make up those fasts.

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QUESTION: What is the ruling for women on fasting the 6th fast of Shawwal as they have to complete their missed fasts from Ramadan too? So do we have to complete our missed obligatory fast before fasting for Shawwal or is it ok if I fast the 6th fasting of Shawwal and complete missed fast of Ramadan later?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
01 May

ANSWER: You must fast the missed days of Ramadan first and then fast the 6 days of Shawwal. 

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QUESTION: My father was diabetic and he couldn’t fast for many years during ramadan and at that time he couldn’t give fidya due to finanacial conditions…then in 2019 he died after being half paralyzed due to brain stroke, so should i fast on his behalf or give fidyah for his missed fasts of many years

Fasting and Ramadan, Fiqh of the family
29 Apr

ANSWER: If he did not have the money to feed till he died, you can either pay on his behalf or fast on his behalf. 

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