QUESTION: If a person is used to fast prophet Dawood aleyhissalam fasting, is he allowed to fast in addition to it Ashura day or for example the 10 first days of Dhul Hijja? The consequence would be that this person would fast 16 days in Muharram or 20 days in Dhul Hijja. Is is permissible to combine ?

Fasting
20 Jul

ANSWER: This is not permissible if he is going to be exceeding more than half of the month.

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QUESTION: I was replacing my missed fast and same day i didn’t pray isha due to laziness. Should i replace that fast again?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Prayer
09 Jul

ANSWER: No need. The fast is valid however, you have committed a major sin by abandoning prayer and are in great danger of being a hypocrite.

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QUESTION: What’s the ruling on a women who was fasting Ashura’ with the intention of getting the sins of the previous year forgiven but then she got her menses less than two hours before the maghrib azan, will she be among the people who receive forgiveness for their sins of the previous year like in the hadith?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
04 Jul

ANSWER: The reward is granted with the grace of Allah due to her intention.

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QUESTION: Few years ago, I missed fasts due to illness and i didn’t know that i have to make them up later.Can you please guide me what should i do now?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
03 Jul

ANSWER: You must make them up now as this a debt on you. There is no expiation needed. You can combine them to the Sunnah Fasts of Mondays and Thursdays for double the reward.

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QUESTION: If my parents ask me not to do something that is voluntary — like voluntary fasts — am I still allowed to do that or do I obey my parents?

Fasting, Fiqh of the family
27 Jun

ANSWER: If your fasting doesn’t hinder you from taking care of them then you’re not obliged to obey them in this regard. 

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QUESTION: I know unintentionally vomit doesn’t break fast but Does a person allowed to break his fast? Due to vomiting if he feels weakness or sickness(not chronic) but it’s hard to complete the fast

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
26 Jun

ANSWER: If a person is sick and his sickness makes it hard or harmful for him to continue fasting, he can break his fast with or without vomiting.

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QUESTION: Is fast valid if someone had dry mouth and for that he rinses mouth with water but doesn’t swallow it?

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan
23 Jun

ANSWER: This has no impact on your fast

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QUESTION: What it is the ruling of swallowing plegm that comes from nose does it affect my fast or salat if i swallow it i read if we swallow it from our mouth it invalidates fast and salat but can we intentionally swallow it from our nose directly to throat without letting in in our mouth and whats the ruling on sptting during salah likeif the phlemg from our nose enters the nose

Fasting, Fasting and Ramadan, Prayer
18 Jun

ANSWER: If it goes from your nose up your nostrils and you swallow that, this has no impact on your fasting.  But if it comes out of your nose and from there it enters your mouth and you swallow that, this breaks your fasting as if you are eating or drinking.

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QUESTION: Sheikh, my grandmother says we must not fast tomorrow 9th dhul hijjah in India as its eid day in macca. She says it’s haram to fast

Fasting, Slaughtering
06 Jun

ANSWER: What she is saying is baseless and wrong. It is like saying you shouldn’t celebrate eid in India on Saturday because it is the 11th in Makkah!

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QUESTION: I live in Qatar & Arafah is on Thursday, so I to fast on Thursday In Shaa Allah. I will be travelling to Pakistan for Eid holidays on Thursday night & reach there early morning Friday which is the eid day in Qatar but Arafah in Pakistan. How can I celebrate Eid when people would be fasting there? What do I do? Do I fast again in Pakistan?

Fasting, Slaughtering
04 Jun

ANSWER: You must celebrate eid with the people of Pakistan on Saturday and not celebrate it on Friday You should fast with them on Friday as this is Arafah day for Pakistan.

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