What Breaks the Fast
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What should a traveler do if the beginning of fasting differs between the country of departure and the country of arrival?
Is it permissible for a traveling man to satisfy his sexual desire by ejaculating through the friction of his penis against his wife's clothes, which are with him, while she is with him via voice and video call over the Internet?
What is permissible and impermissible for a married couple to do during fasting, whether it is obligatory or voluntary, or if only one of them is fasting? Is the prohibition limited to intercourse, or does it include foreplay and kissing?
Does perfume spray entering the mouth and swallowing saliva, while feeling the taste of the perfume on the tongue and lips but not in the throat, invalidate the fast, and is it necessary to make up for that day?
What is the ruling on applying Vicks to the lips, with the possibility of its taste reaching the throat?
Is it obligatory to fast for a full month, based on a previous oath to fast it if the transgression occurred, knowing that the transgression has indeed taken place?
What is the Maliki school's evidence for the obligation of fasting two consecutive months for whoever intentionally breaks their fast by eating or drinking in Ramadan, knowing that the other three madhhabs and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah do not consider expiation obligatory?
Is it forbidden to single out Friday and Saturday for fasting, and what is the wisdom behind that? What is the ruling if the first of Ramadan falls on a Saturday? Is the fast valid if the fasting person breaks their fast based on a mobile phone adhan which was later confirmed to have been before the actual adhan?
Does one earn the reward for feeding a fasting person by offering a single date, or is a full meal required, and is the reward forfeited if the invited guests break their fast with dates at the mosque before coming to the house?
Is the fast of one who ate, assuming the time of Maghrib had begun, then it became clear to him that it had not, valid?
What is the ruling on fasting Saturday if Ashura (Sunday) falls on it?
Is it permissible to fast in expiation for a deceased person's broken oath instead of feeding the poor, and is it possible to divide the fasting among the heirs?
What is the reason for the difference in iftar and imsak times between two very close border crossings, even though they used to agree on this during the colonial era, and does "differences in horizons" justify this disparity in fasting?
Is it permissible for one who is unable to fast Ramadan due to a chronic illness to pay the Fidyah before the month begins? Is it permissible to give the Fidyah for a whole month to a single poor person? Is it a condition to pay the Fidyah daily, or can it be paid all at once?
What is the ruling regarding the days I have fasted, and what should I do now? Should I continue fasting or break it and clothe ten indigent persons, after I intended to fast six days as expiation for two oaths, and on the fourth day of fasting, I remembered that I have enough clothes to clothe ten indigent persons?
Does the use of an inhaler and an intravenous antibiotic injection during the daytime in Ramadan break the fast?
Does taking a birth control pill without water on the morning of the first day of Ramadan break one's fast?
Are the five aforementioned Hadiths concerning injustice authentic?
What is the amount of money required to feed sixty poor people? Is the expiation for breaking a fast day in Ramadan obligatory for the wife as well, or only for the husband? Meaning, is the expiation feeding 120 poor people, or only 60 poor people for both? Is it permissible to donate this money to the mosque or any other charitable work, or must sixty poor people be fed, and it is not permissible to pay the expiation with money?
Is he who swore not to commit a certain sin—saying that if he were to commit it, Allah would take his son—then committed it, sinful?
Does the emission of semen due to lustful thoughts and slight, unintentional physical movement invalidate the fast, and what should a fasting person do in this case?
Is it permissible to stop fasting a yearly month that was vowed for the recovery of a son who is still ill, especially given the difficult health, social, and financial circumstances that have befallen the one who made the vow?
What is the ruling of the Shari'ah concerning a pregnant woman who intentionally induced vomiting to alleviate pregnancy symptoms, being unaware that doing so invalidates the fast, and has now stopped doing it? Is she required to make up the fast (qada'), or both make up the fast and offer expiation (qada' and kaffarah), or is nothing required of her?
Is it obligatory to rinse the mouth upon repeatedly waking up from sleep during fasting, if light-colored blood comes out of the mouth during sleep?