What Breaks the Fast

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What is the expiation for someone who used to expiate an oath by fasting out of ignorance, despite being able to feed, clothe, or free a slave, and finds it difficult to ascertain the number of past instances?
Does merely thinking about breaking the fast during a voluntary fast constitute breaking it, even if no eating or drinking occurs?
Is it obligatory for the fasting person, whose supplication is not rejected, to supplicate at the time of breaking the fast, or is it permissible to delay it until a later time after breaking the fast?
ما هو الدليل من القرآن والسنة على أن كفارة الأكل عمداً في رمضان هي صوم ستين يوماً؟
What is the ruling on a pregnant woman in her eighth month making up five days from the previous Ramadan?
What is the evidence of the Malikis in their saying that fasting is invalidated by the emission of prostatic fluid (madhy)?
Is it permissible to have intercourse with one's wife after the Maghrib Adhan for someone who has vowed to fast for three consecutive months?
Does a fasting person licking his saliva that reached outside the lip and swallowing it harm the fast?
Is a girl who deliberately broke her fast in Ramadan due to thirst required to only make up the days (qada'), or is expiation (kaffara) incumbent upon her, or both expiation and making up the days?
What is the most precautious (al-ahwat) from a fiqh perspective when scholars differ on a matter? And is adopting the view of those who deem something forbidden (haram) or disliked (makruh) the most precautious when scholars are equal in knowledge? And is it obligatory to consult only one shaykh for fatwas, or is it permissible to ask more than one scholar? And is it permissible for a husband to compel his wife to adopt the most precautious view?
Is expiation obligatory only for an oath, or is it necessary to fulfill a vow if one is unable to do so after breaking an oath to abstain from a lawful act with one's wife, given that there is a vow to pay money and fast for a month?
What is the ruling on someone who broke their fast in Ramadan out of forgetfulness, then remembered, but did not abstain for the rest of the day due to their ignorance of the obligation to do so in this situation?
What is the ruling on one who has intercourse with his wife during the daytime while observing the two-month expiatory fast (kasaarat al-shahrayn): should he complete the fast and offer expiation for that day, or should he restart the two months anew? And does the fast apply to him and to her?
Is it permissible to say "faṭir" (فاطر) to refer to breaking the fast, or should one say "muftir" (مفطر) or "muftirah" (مفطرة), given that "faṭir" (فاطر) means "the Creator" and is mentioned in the Holy Quran (Fāṭir of the heavens and the earth)?
What is the expiation for someone who swore three oaths and broke them, knowing that she fasted for one oath and forgot what she swore about in the other two oaths? Can she intend to fast for the second oath and then the third?
What is the ruling on one who deliberately breaks their fast in Ramadan, and is a similar expiation incumbent upon them as upon one who has sexual intercourse with their spouse during a Ramadan day?
What is the ruling on one who deliberately broke their fast during the day in Ramadan by drinking water in order to have intercourse with his wife, thinking that the expiation is fasting one day instead of fasting two consecutive months?
Does the presence of a smell or residue from the gel used during sexual intercourse after ghusl, or the discharge of drops of blood after intercourse due to difficult penetration, invalidate the fast of one who is fasting?
Is our Hajj valid and accepted after we fasted in lieu of the Hady due to our money being stolen, and then spent the equivalent value of the Hady on gifts after Arafah?
What is the ruling on the fast of someone who slept with chewing gum in their mouth and woke up to the adhan of Fajr while the chewing gum was still in their mouth?
Does wetting the lips with saliva during fasting constitute something that breaks the fast?
Is it permissible for a married or unmarried woman to use an artificial phallus to avoid fornication?
Does receiving chemotherapy intravenously during the daytime in Ramadan break the fast, and is it permissible for a sick person to break their fast to take medication when necessary, and what is the expiation if she breaks her fast?
Does water coming out of the stomach due to an overwhelming urge or pressure on the abdomen, and not by vomiting, break the fast?

What Breaks the Fast

What is the expiation for someone who used to expiate an oath by fasting out of ignorance, despite being able to feed, clothe, or free a slave, and finds it difficult to ascertain the number of past instances?

Does merely thinking about breaking the fast during a voluntary fast constitute breaking it, even if no eating or drinking occurs?

Is it obligatory for the fasting person, whose supplication is not rejected, to supplicate at the time of breaking the fast, or is it permissible to delay it until a later time after breaking the fast?

ما هو الدليل من القرآن والسنة على أن كفارة الأكل عمداً في رمضان هي صوم ستين يوماً؟

What is the ruling on a pregnant woman in her eighth month making up five days from the previous Ramadan?

What is the evidence of the Malikis in their saying that fasting is invalidated by the emission of prostatic fluid (madhy)?

Is it permissible to have intercourse with one's wife after the Maghrib Adhan for someone who has vowed to fast for three consecutive months?

Does a fasting person licking his saliva that reached outside the lip and swallowing it harm the fast?

Is a girl who deliberately broke her fast in Ramadan due to thirst required to only make up the days (qada'), or is expiation (kaffara) incumbent upon her, or both expiation and making up the days?

Is expiation obligatory only for an oath, or is it necessary to fulfill a vow if one is unable to do so after breaking an oath to abstain from a lawful act with one's wife, given that there is a vow to pay money and fast for a month?

What is the ruling on someone who broke their fast in Ramadan out of forgetfulness, then remembered, but did not abstain for the rest of the day due to their ignorance of the obligation to do so in this situation?

What is the ruling on one who has intercourse with his wife during the daytime while observing the two-month expiatory fast (kasaarat al-shahrayn): should he complete the fast and offer expiation for that day, or should he restart the two months anew? And does the fast apply to him and to her?

Is it permissible to say "faṭir" (فاطر) to refer to breaking the fast, or should one say "muftir" (مفطر) or "muftirah" (مفطرة), given that "faṭir" (فاطر) means "the Creator" and is mentioned in the Holy Quran (Fāṭir of the heavens and the earth)?

What is the expiation for someone who swore three oaths and broke them, knowing that she fasted for one oath and forgot what she swore about in the other two oaths? Can she intend to fast for the second oath and then the third?

What is the ruling on one who deliberately breaks their fast in Ramadan, and is a similar expiation incumbent upon them as upon one who has sexual intercourse with their spouse during a Ramadan day?

What is the ruling on one who deliberately broke their fast during the day in Ramadan by drinking water in order to have intercourse with his wife, thinking that the expiation is fasting one day instead of fasting two consecutive months?

Does the presence of a smell or residue from the gel used during sexual intercourse after ghusl, or the discharge of drops of blood after intercourse due to difficult penetration, invalidate the fast of one who is fasting?

Is our Hajj valid and accepted after we fasted in lieu of the Hady due to our money being stolen, and then spent the equivalent value of the Hady on gifts after Arafah?

What is the ruling on the fast of someone who slept with chewing gum in their mouth and woke up to the adhan of Fajr while the chewing gum was still in their mouth?

Does wetting the lips with saliva during fasting constitute something that breaks the fast?

Is it permissible for a married or unmarried woman to use an artificial phallus to avoid fornication?

Does receiving chemotherapy intravenously during the daytime in Ramadan break the fast, and is it permissible for a sick person to break their fast to take medication when necessary, and what is the expiation if she breaks her fast?

Does water coming out of the stomach due to an overwhelming urge or pressure on the abdomen, and not by vomiting, break the fast?