QUESTION: My inhaler is powder. Is it allowed to take in the day while fasting.

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
10 Apr

ANSWER: This is permissible. Make sure you rinse your mouth if there is some powder left in your mouth.

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QUESTION: During the month of Ramadan, I regained my state of purity before Fajr, I put the intention of fast, but I did not have time to do ghusl before Fajr, I did them after, is my fast valid?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
10 Apr

ANSWER: Yes, its valid

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QUESTION: If we want to fast the 6 days of shawwal we have to complete the missed fasts of Ramadan so my question is my 3 fasts were missed due to periods but I got my periods 3-4 minutes before iftar so do I have to count that fast also and complete 6 fast shawwal + 4 fast of missed fast Or I have to keep 3 fasts that were missed with 6 fasts of shawwal

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding
08 Apr

ANSWER: If the period comes even a few seconds before Maghrib, your fast of that day is not valid and you must make it up 

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QUESTION: Since I traveled to a country that started and ended Ramadan later than my departure country, I would have fasted 31 days if I didn’t exceed suhoor time by mistake on 2 days. I only made up one day and fasted 6 days of shawal. Did I have to make up 2 days to fast a total of 31 days or 1 day to have a total of 30 days?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
07 Apr

ANSWER: It doesn’t matter! If you skipped or broke the fast of one or more days in ramadan, you must make that up.

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QUESTION: If I have missed fasts from previous years (7 years) due to menstruation and I don’t remember how many missed. How can I make it up? Do I have to make it up all before fasting 6 days in Shawwal?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
05 Apr

ANSWER: If you’ve fasted all the fasts of this Ramadan then you can keep this year’s 6 days of Shawwal.  You must make up your missed fasts from previous years after that besides repenting sincerely to Allah while showing deep remorse for delaying them for this long 

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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: I’m from Bangladesh. My question is about praying witr salat. In ramadan we pray witr in jamat right after taraweeh. 1.Prophet muhammad pbuh said, whoever prays with imam until he finishes, it will be recorded for him as if he prayed the whole night. 2. In another hadith he pbuh said Make the last of your prayer at night witr. when should i Pray witr?

Fasting and Ramadan, Prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud and Qiyam-ul-Layl
24 Feb

ANSWER: Pray it with the Imam in Taraweeh and if you want to pray home when you go home, you can while not repeating Witr.

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