What Breaks the Fast
1,235 questions
What is the ruling on using regular perfume, spray, and Vicks (Abu Fas) while fasting?
How can a non-working female student pay delayed atonements for oaths, and is fasting three days sufficient for each atonement, and how are ten needy people fed?
Does swallowing one's saliva after the Fajr Adhan invalidate the fast if there is still wetness or a trace of water in the saliva from drinking water before the Adhan?
Is one's fast valid upon waking to find blood in the mouth, and merely wiping it with a tissue without rinsing, knowing that there is constant bleeding from the gums and teeth?
Is kaffarah obligatory for someone who breaks their fast in Ramadan due to masturbation during the day, or due to a wet dream followed by a severe feeling of thirst and hunger? And is it permissible to consider fasting on Mondays and Thursdays as kaffarah for those days?
Is a strong odor that enters the stomach, such as the smell of incense, considered to break the fast, by analogy with smoke? Is it permissible to use ijtihad (independent reasoning) in religious matters, while expressing an opinion and a presumption with the phrase "I presume the matter is such and such" without definitively stating a legal ruling? And after expressing an opinion, should one say: "If this is correct, it is from Allah, and if it is wrong, it is from Satan, and Allah and His Messenger are innocent of what I say"?
What is the ruling on one who swore by Allah not to smoke, then smoked?
Is repeating an oath by Allah to end obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) regarding purity, and the subsequent breaking of the oath and fasting, considered a "vain oath" (laghw al-ayman)?
Is it permissible to taste food while fasting?
Does an eye drop break the fast if its bitter taste reaches the throat? And what is the ruling if I use it during the day and then fall asleep, and I don't know whether I swallowed it or not?
How does a Muslim earn the reward for feeding a fasting person, is it sufficient to offer a date or a sip of water for that, and is the intention of the one who brings the dates for breaking the fast of fasting people taken into account?
What is the ruling on one who swore four oaths and broke them, then fed ten poor people bananas, water, a pastry, and juice each, as an expiation for those oaths? Is this feeding sufficient, or is another feeding obligatory? And what is the amount of expiation that must be given?
Does inhaling incense and pleasant aromas break the fast, and what is its ruling in the four schools of thought?
What is the ruling on swallowing water that collects in the throat during fasting, which resembles saliva but may have come up from the stomach and sometimes has a taste? Does it invalidate the fast if swallowed, given that it does not reach the mouth? Is it considered qals (regurgitation) that invalidates the fast if it has a taste? Is it permissible to ignore this water and swallow it due to hardship, and what is the ruling on intentionally burping to see if anything comes out with it?
Must I complete the two consecutive months of fasting that I vowed after Ramadan, or should I restart the fast, since I vowed to fast for two consecutive months?
What should I do about the feeling of choking from food stuck in my throat while fasting?
Does swallowing mucus break one's fast?
Is watching Egyptian movies that contain kisses and embraces considered among the sexually explicit clips that I vowed to abandon and fast for two years if I watch them, knowing that the intention was for the explicit sexual clips widespread on the Internet?
What is the ruling on delaying the fulfillment of a vow for a period that may exceed 10 years?
I once swore that if I committed a certain sin, I would fast.
Is it obligatory to make up for two days of fasting (a make-up day and a missed day) if a person breaks their make-up fast without an excuse? And does the same ruling apply to voluntary fasting?
Does not fasting the expiation for an oath or the existence of a vow prevent the supplication from being answered, and does the Hadith: "The fasting person has a supplication that is not rejected" apply to one who fasts for the expiation of an oath?
Is it permissible to give the value of repeated oaths' expiation in cash, or to contribute with it to the building of a mosque, or to direct it to charities specialized in distributing expiations, instead of feeding ten poor persons for each oath?
Does the emission of pre-seminal fluid (madhy), which is not semen, break the fast of a fasting person if it is emitted due to kissing one's wife or seeing something that arouses desire?