What is the ruling on one who swore not to eat from his host's food if he went to excessive trouble in the invitation, but then ate from it after seeing the excessive trouble?
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If a Muslim takes an oath and then sees that something else is better, he should do what is better and expiate for his oath. Since you have changed your mind about abstaining from eating, you have followed the , and you owe an expiation for breaking an oath: feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or emancipating a slave. If you cannot find any of these, then fasting for three days.
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