What Breaks the Fast
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What is the ruling on one who craves food upon seeing it during the daytime in Ramadan, yet does not intend to break his fast?
What is the ruling on the oath I made during a phone call with an unknown person, and did I err in revealing the secret of the call to a trusted person seeking advice?
What is the ruling on one who intentionally broke their fast for five days in Ramadan due to severe psychological pressure from accompanying their sick mother, and what is incumbent upon them other than making up those five days? Do they have to feed the poor or give charity?
What is the ruling on someone who vomited before the Fajr adhan and drank intentionally after the adhan, having forgotten the prohibition of fasting? Is he required to make up the day (qada') or offer expiation (kaffara)?
Is a mother obligated to fast for two consecutive months, believing that she accidentally killed her infant, and is the husband sinful for interrupting this fast with intercourse?
Does temporarily placing a clove in the teeth, without swallowing anything from it, break the fast of the fasting person?
Is it permissible to break one’s fast while traveling a distance of 60 km, given the extreme fatigue from travel, when one has vowed to fast for a consecutive month, and would this affect the continuity of the fasting?
Is it a Bid'ah (innovation in religion) that I fast one day every month?
Does inserting an endoscope into the anus while fasting invalidate the fast and require a make-up day, knowing that the fasting person completed their fast?
Is disclosing personal information about a friend (without mentioning her name) for the purpose of helping her, after having sworn to keep her secret, considered a betrayal of trust and a breaking of an oath, and what are the consequences of that?
Is the fast of a bedridden person, who is compelled to use the internet due to loneliness, considered complete despite being exposed to internet prohibitions, given his sincere intention to avoid them were it not for his dire necessity?
What is entailed for someone who masturbates while voluntarily fasting, and is he required to complete his day?
What is the ruling on swallowing saliva after rinsing the mouth or nose for a fasting person?
Is it permissible to pay a single expiation for multiple oaths if the value of one expiation is 500 Syrian Pounds and the total due for all expiations is 1500 Syrian Pounds?
Is it obligatory to fast 50 expiatory oaths consecutively, or can they be fasted separately, and can the feeding of the needy be substituted for fasting, knowing that there is money saved for seeking knowledge?
Is it obligatory to make up or offer expiation for someone who intended to do something that breaks the fast during Ramadan days due to ignorance or doubt, then their doubt increased and they refrained from it?
Is it permissible for a seeker of knowledge to fast as expiation for oaths he has broken, or is he obligated to feed ten poor people for them, knowing that he does not possess any money other than what he saves for buying books of knowledge? Is continuity of fasting a condition for expiation? And can he fast only on Mondays and Thursdays? What is the ruling concerning one who dies before completing the expiatory fasts?
What is the ruling on masturbating during the daytime in Ramadan without ejaculation?
Does a transvaginal ultrasound invalidate the fast and necessitate making up the fast and expiation?
Is it permissible to fast two consecutive days voluntarily?
What should a 19-year-old young man do who cannot get married because his parents refuse, given his desire for chastity and his occasional weakness of masturbating, knowing that he has strong urges and does not lower his gaze from what is unlawful for him to see?
Does repeated perjury necessitate one expiation or more, and does performing simple tasks during work constitute a violation of an oath, and is it permissible to pay the value of expiation in cash if feeding is not possible?
Does swallowing dry, chapped pieces of skin from the lips invalidate the fast?
Must one make up for breaking fast on the day of travel while still at home, then it becomes clear that his trip will be delayed, and the time for breaking fast coincides with his presence aboard the ship?