Ramadan Basics
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Is it obligatory to make up a day of Ramadan fasting for someone from whom semen was discharged due to repeatedly looking at a picture, given their ignorance that this might necessitate breaking the fast?
Does foreplay between spouses during the daytime in Ramadan, followed by a wet dream, lead to sin or invalidate the fast?
Is the fast considered valid when in doubt about water entering the throat during ablution in Ramadan?
Do the one who performs hijama and the one on whom it is performed break their fast during Ramadan, and what are the consequences of that?
Is the intention to fast valid and sufficient if a person says: "If tomorrow is the first of Ramadan, then I am fasting," in the event that the beginning of Ramadan has not been announced and he went to sleep early?
What is the ruling on one who has intercourse with his wife during the daytime in Ramadan while he is traveling?
What should a Muslim do regarding fasting in Ramadan if they live near the Arctic Circle where the daytime is only four and a half hours long?
How does a Muslim intend to fast Ramadan, and when is the intention obligatory?
Does exposing one's 'awrah in front of another person invalidate the fast?
Did the Companions fast in the Battle of Badr? And when was fasting the month of Ramadan made obligatory?
What is the ruling on one who masturbated during the daytime in Ramadan, then made up that day after Ramadan?
How sound is the tradition reported from Ibn Abbas: "A pregnant or breastfeeding woman may break her fast in Ramadan, and they shall make up the days of fasting, and they shall not feed [the poor]?"
What is the expiation for someone who intentionally swallowed water during ablution in Ramadan due to waswas (obsessive whispering), or swallowed something in their mouth, not knowing if it was food residue or an almond while asleep, or intentionally swallowed a small amount of ablution water, or swallowed vomit out of laziness while fasting, knowing that she is now a nursing mother and has repented?
Is it sufficient to place what is enough to feed ten needy people in the baskets of charitable organizations as expiation for an oath, given the uncertainty of how it will be distributed among the required number?
What is the ruling on one who masturbates in Ramadan or on any other obligatory fast, intentionally doing so, knowing that the time for fasting has begun, but forgetting that he is fasting?
What is the ruling on kissing a foreign woman in Ramadan, and is one who does so required to make up for that day?
What is the duty of someone who caused two people to break their fast by imitating the sound of the Adhan? And is it obligatory for him to fast sixty days for each of them, and is it permissible to postpone the fasting of one of the sixty days until after the next Ramadan?
What is the ruling on one who unintentionally had anal intercourse with his wife during the daytime in Ramadan and ejaculated?
Is it permissible for a woman to feed sixty poor people as expiation for sexual intercourse that occurred during the daytime in Ramadan of her first marriage, for fear that her current husband might find out and expose her?
Is a voluntary fast valid if the fasting person drinks an hour after the dawnathan, knowing that? And is expiation obligatory upon him if it is not valid?
Is it permissible for a fasting person to swim if it is a requirement for their studies?
Is it permissible to take the COVID-19 vaccine during the daytime in Ramadan while fasting?
Should a woman who experienced bleeding two days before miscarrying and continued to bleed for two days after the miscarriage, the fetus being two months old, make up the days she fasted in Ramadan?
Does this day count as a make-up day after one forgets the intention to fast, and eats and drinks, then abstains for the rest of the day?