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Should someone who intended to fast and then became hesitant complete their fast?

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Hesitation in breaking the intention of fasting does not invalidate it, according to the more preponderant opinion, whether the fast is obligatory or supererogatory. Some scholars have indeed held that it does not invalidate it, because the default is that the intention remains until one resolves to break it, and this is the more preponderant opinion.

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