What Breaks the Fast
1,235 questions
Is it permissible to adopt the view of the Hanafi school of thought concerning the issue of saliva reaching the lips during fasting, in order to alleviate the obsessive thoughts about wiping the lips after ablution for fear of swallowing saliva?
What is the ruling on the fast of one who intended to fast a missed obligatory day on Monday, then forgot and woke up after Fajr and remembered, knowing that she broke her fast for the rest of the day?
Should I fast the three months I vowed separately or consecutively, given that I don't recall my intention at the time of the vow?
Is it permissible for a mother to continue fasting all days of the week—except for Friday and sometimes Saturday or Sunday—given that she works as a teacher and experiences great fatigue, and in a city where the Maghrib adhan is delayed until 8:30 PM, or is it better for her to limit her fasting to Mondays, Thursdays, and the White Days?
Is a husband forbidden from receiving the reward for his wife's breaking the fast of his mother, who deliberately breaks her fast alone and then joins them for the meal?
Is the fast of one who drank water at the Fajr اذان, where the sip of water had reached the back of his mouth and gone down to his stomach while the muezzin was saying "Allah Akbar," valid, and should he make up three days of fasting or just one day?
Is a fasting person permitted to eat immediately upon hearing the Adhan?
What is the ruling on someone who unintentionally broke their fast for one day while observing a two-month fast as expiation for unintentional killing—should they continue their fast or start anew?
Does one's fast become invalid if a person eats forgetfully during the pre-dawn meal (suhoor) without a firm prior intention (niyyah)?
Is it obligatory to accept a friend's invitation to lunch if you are observing a voluntary fast and he is unaware of your fasting, especially since he has sworn that you would come?
Must I fast three days as expiation for an oath, despite my mother's strong refusal due to her fear of hardship for me?
Must one who deliberately broke their fast on a day in Ramadan make up for that day, or make up for that day along with fasting sixty consecutive days?
Does bleeding from the mouth during rinsing (madmadah) while performing ablution (wudu') during a Ramadan day break the fast?
What should someone do who swore an oath seven times concerning a single matter and was unaware that the expiation is only one, and was ignorant of the condition of sequence in the expiation of an oath, and fasted 12 days out of the 21 days he had intended, then learned about the condition of sequence and the single expiation at the end of the period, so that Allah may accept his expiation?
Must one make up a fast if one broke it before the athan for the entry of the time, thinking that the muezzin had already called the athan for the entry of the time?
What is the ruling on someone who vowed to fast the White Days every month for the rest of their life for their father's recovery, but they cannot bear fasting and find extreme difficulty in it? Should they feed ten poor people for each month, or can they expiate their vow with another form of expiation?
Is it binding upon one who covenanted with Allah to fast specific days upon doing something, and who has done that thing, and the number of days reached 45 days, to fast or to pay a financial expiation?
Does the heart pill placed under the tongue break the fast of the fasting person?
What is the ruling on one who masturbates during the daytime in Ramadan, thinking that it does not break the fast?
What should I do, as I drank by mistake in Ramadan then made up the day, and then drank by mistake during the make-up day as well?
Does practicing masturbation during the day, with the assumption that it is nighttime, invalidate the fast?
Is it permissible to complete a voluntary fast after having eaten and drunk, thinking that the time for abstaining had not yet begun, only to then realize that the sun had already risen?
What is the ruling on someone who intended to break their fast in Ramadan due to heat, then returned home and felt relieved; are they considered to have broken their fast by that intention?
Is it better to be in the mosque or at home to supplicate an hour before Maghrib in Ramadan, a time when it is said that supplications are answered?