Fasting

QUESTION: If someone was severely sick last ramadhan and was unable to fast so they paid fidya Now that they are healthy are they obligated to pay back the ramadhan from last year.

01 Mar

ANSWER: The Fidya is paid by those who are chronically ill and doctors say that they will never recover or be able to fast for the rest of their lives You must make up for such missed days.

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.

QUESTION: During Rajab 27 I know its a bidah my parents observe this , so they will not make any food during the day , i always thinks to take fast in other days like normal sunnah , Bcz of lazy i couldn’t but there will be no food on rajab 27 so I observe the fast with the intention of normal sunnah is this permissible

Fasting, Innovations

06 Feb

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible because it is imitating them in their innovation unless it was a Monday or Thursday

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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