Fasting

Would like to clarify if i have heard the fajar azan do i have to stop anything that nullifies the fast?If say one has intercourse with his wife in quick time after the azan ,is his fast still valid? I learnt that the limit to stop sahur is when iqamah is heard or 40 verses of the quran approximately. Appreciate your advise.

Fasting

10 Jun

ANSWER: What you have heard is absolutely baseless and fabricated and would nullify your fast. Once the athan is called, the very first word of ‘Allahuakbar’ is said, you must stop eating, drinking (unless the drink is in your hand then you can finish drinking it) and having intercourse with your spouse immediately. If you […]

I heard that during Ramadan you can’t cook a meal for someone who isn’t fasting who is an adult Muslim or non Muslim ? My family claims this but I don’t believe it

Fasting

10 Jun

ANSWER: This is true. You can only cook and provide food to Muslims who are excused from fasting such as elders and sick people.

Sheikh I wanted to know that can I fast my missed ramadan fast and shawal fast together? Or after fasting the missed fast i have to make a gap for shawwal fast

Fasting

08 Jun

ANSWER: You must make up your missed fasts from Ramadan before offering Shawwal fasts. It does not have to be in consecutive order.

i rinsed my mouth carelessly and unintentionally small amount of went in my throat .fasting

Fasting

06 Jun

ANSWER: If it was unintentional, the fast is valid but you must be more careful next time.

Sheikh what to do when one gets sexual desires during his/her fasting

Fasting

03 Jun

ANSWER: He must block the things that provoke his desire to sin and surround himself with practicing Muslims and keep himself busy with the good deeds.

I am twelve years and I have a question for you: If the big Devils are locked up in Ramadan, do we still have to make our morning and evening Athkaar even if they can’t harm us?

Fasting, Supplications

02 Jun

ANSWER: Yes, because they still have some influence but less than other months. Besides, the masters of Jinn are chained but not the little devils.

If my menstruation ends at night and before taking obligatory bath can i start fasting from next morning in ramadan? Does ‘not-taking bath’ after menses have any effect on fasting?

Fasting, Menstruation and post-natal bleeding

02 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in intending fasting before taking your bath even if you take ghusul after the break of dawn.

Shaikh i have a long term problem of gum bleeding sometimes i might swallow it unintentionally not knowing my saliva might contain blood does that effect my fast while sleeping also my gums do bleed and what about sputum that goes inside directly in to throat from nose when a person lie dowm to sleep i am always stressed and thinking whether my fast is accepted or not ?

Fasting

30 May

ANSWER: What you do unknowingly, you are not accountable for it, however, if you deliberately swallow blood, the fast is invalid and you must make it up.

The 6 fast of shawal are to be made up by consecutive days or you can put gap in between?

Fasting

30 May

ANSWER: You can give gap and fast these throughout the month.

I am chronically ill and don’t fast. If someone asks me whether I am fasting, how should I answer? Should I say that I am fasting? Because if I say that I am not fasting, that person will ask me why I am not fasting. I don’t want to expose my illness and tell everybody that I have an illness. How should I behave in those cases?

Fasting

30 May

ANSWER: It is not permissible to lie as it’s a major sin. Muslims usually do not ask other Muslims if they’re fasting or not as it is taken as a normal thing for all Muslims to fast during Ramadan. Simply ask him: what kind of a question is this? Are you Muslim?

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