Exemptions and Excuses
652 questions
What is the ruling on someone who broke their fast for one day during the expiatory two-month consecutive fasting due to a medical procedure (tooth extraction) that necessitated breaking the fast, and is he required to resume fasting anew, knowing that it was possible to postpone the procedure to a time that would not affect his fasting?
Is it permissible to break the fast in Ramadan due to thinness and strenuous work before marriage?
What is incumbent upon one who broke her fast for two months of Ramadan in the past and did not make them up due to the difficulty of fasting?
Must I fast after having intercourse with my wife during the daytime in Ramadan while traveling and forcing her to break her fast, and does the ruling include my wife?
Is fasting obligatory for a Muslim patient who suffers from kidney stones and is required to drink no less than 3000 ml of water daily?
What is the ruling on my sister making up the days she missed in Ramadan due to pregnancy, breastfeeding, and illness, and does she owe expiation?
Is it permissible to abort a fetus in the third month of pregnancy due to the wife's illness and her inability to take care of herself?
Is the wording "I will be among Your righteous servants, and I will try to fast on Mondays and Thursdays and pray the supererogatory (Sunnah) prayers" considered a vow (Nathr)? If so, is expiation (Kaffarah) required for not fulfilling it due to illness? And are there specific wordings for a vow?
Does God Almighty forgive all sins, especially taking a life, even while striving to save another, and is that considered freeing a slave (emancipation) which atones for taking a life, and does God forgive not fasting Ramadan in childhood due to incomplete awareness, and what is my real problem, is it weakness in faith or a psychological illness, and how do I find forgiveness from God?
Is it permissible to break the fast in Ramadan due to a difficult foundational training course in firefighting abroad?
Is a sick person who is unable to fast required to do so if a doctor orders against it, and is expiation due from them?
What are the causes of intense fear of illness and death, panic, tightness in the chest and throat when remembering death, and lack of sleep? Is there a cure for this?
Is it obligatory to make up for missed Ramadan fasts along with feeding a needy person for each day, or is feeding sufficient?
Is it permissible for me to shorten the prayer when working at sea for two consecutive months?
Am I obligated to complete a discontinuous votive fast—fasting one day and breaking the fast the next—which I did not complete due to travel, or what should I do?
Is it obligatory to make up the fasting of a whole month after a heart valve replacement operation, based on the doctor's advice to break the fast and feed a poor person for each day, knowing that I broke the fast and fed [the poor], praise be to God?
Is it permissible to combine the Maghrib and 'Isha prayers without an excuse according to the Shafi'i madhhab, and does Imam Al-Shafi'i have two madhhabs in Egypt and Iraq?
What is the ruling regarding a day a woman broke her fast, believing she had to do so in order to undergo necessary medical tests for pregnancy, and is expiation required of her?
Is it permissible to pay a ransom (fidyah) for not fasting the previous Ramadan due to pregnancy, and is fasting required now with the renewed pregnancy, caring for a nursing infant, difficult circumstances, and living abroad?
Is it permissible for someone who is obligated to pay the blood money for accidental killing in a car accident and has fasted one month of the two months of expiation to interrupt the fasting and feed for the remaining period, or must he complete the fasting after Ramadan?
What are the Sharia limits on sexual relations between spouses when they disagree, taking into account the privacy of this matter?
Is a kidney failure patient who is continuously using a dialysis machine and has medication appointments during the day allowed to break their fast in Ramadan, or must they fast?
How does a non-resident traveler pray and fast?
What is the religiously lawful way out for the wife who swore an oath that she would not undergo the medical tests necessary for pregnancy, and invoked a curse upon herself if her husband did not get a brain scan, while he does not possess the money for it and Allah has relieved him of pain?