What Breaks the Fast
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What is the ruling on using lip balm and skin moisturizer while fasting?
What are the consequences for someone who swore to fast one day for each specific sin committed, but then forgot the wording of the oath and the number of days, and committed this sin many times, while being a university student financially dependent on his father?
What is the ruling on taking two pills during the day in Ramadan with the intention of healing while completing the fast, and is that considered something that breaks the fast, necessitating its make-up?
What is the ruling regarding the days the questioner fasted, on which she would have suhoor until the adhan of Fajr finished, knowing that she does not remember these days or their number, and how should she make them up?
What is the amount of expiation (kaffarah) that must be paid for the entire month of Ramadan for a pregnant sister-in-law who will give birth during it, knowing that she will not be able to make up the days after childbirth due to her poor health? Is it permissible to pay it in cash instead of grains? And can it be given to one person, or must it be distributed to two people to ensure thirty iftar meals?
Is a wife's fast valid if she completed her sexual desire through masturbation after incomplete intercourse before Fajr, and she stopped at the Adhan but ejaculation occurred after stopping?
What is the expiation for a pregnant woman, in her second month, who breaks her fast for the entire Ramadan based on her doctor's request?
How can one reconcile the noble verse: "And that you fast is better for you" with the hadith: "Today, those who did not fast have taken the reward"?
Is it obligatory to make up for 32 days of intentional fasting over five years as expiation for them?
What is the expiation for someone who swore not to do something, then did it repeatedly, and she is not working; does she expiate from her husband's money or does she fast, and how many days of fasting are there?
Does a hysterosalpingogram (HSG) break one's fast?
What is the ruling on masturbation for an unmarried young man? Is it permissible for him to do it if he fears falling into zina (unlawful sexual intercourse)? Are there any harms associated with it? And can a young man prevent himself from engaging in it despite what he sees in the streets?
Does daily use of vaginal dilators affect fasting?
Is it permissible for a man who broke his voluntary fast (Monday or Thursday) due to intercourse to say "yes" to his mother if she asks him: "Are you fasting?" intending to abstain from food, not a legal fast, and to conceal the intercourse? And is this considered showing off (riyaa')?
Is it obligatory for someone who committed the sin of masturbation while fasting for the expiation of accidental killing to re-fast the days following the sin?
Does the utterance "You are like my sister" to one's wife, said jokingly while fasting, with the intention of making sexual intercourse impermissible during the fast, and not with the intention of ẓihār, constitute ẓihār?
What is the ruling regarding a woman who committed adultery during the daytime in Ramadan and repented, but is unable to fast two consecutive months as expiation for fear of her affair being exposed?
Does the phrase: "I pledge to Allah to pray Qiyam al-Layl daily forever" necessitate repeated expiation (kaffarah), and what is the wording that indicates its repetition? Is it permissible to intend to break the pledge before paying the expiation, and does the pledge remain binding as long as its expiation has not been paid?
Is breaking a voluntary fast obligatory or merely recommended if guests arrive, especially if they are one's parents and siblings?
Is fasting the month of Sha'ban obligatory? And is it to be made up if one breaks the fast?
Does phlegm, if it returns from the throat, break the fast?
Is it required for one who has broken an oath and is obligated to offer expiation that he possess the means for the expiation of feeding (the poor), or should he fast?
Should I fast the six days of Ramadan that I am obligated to make up, or fast seven days, given that I added a seventh day as a precaution when I first intended to make up the fast?
What is the ruling on fasting six days of Shawwal? And does it begin at a specific time?