What Breaks the Fast
1,235 questions
What is the ruling on using a nasal spray while fasting?
Am I liable for one expiation or an expiation for each oath, knowing that I swore more than 200 times not to return to a sin that I went back to?
Does unintentionally swallowing saliva mixed with blood, after the blood has come out of the teeth and been wiped away, invalidate the fast?
Does an internal examination of the private parts invalidate fasting, and does the ruling differ if the woman is pregnant and it may not be necessary, and does the ruling differ if the patient and the doctor are of different genders?
Does the presence of tobacco in the mouth and sleeping before Fajr and waking up after its time invalidate the fast?
Is he who vomited intentionally during the day in Ramadan due to stomach pain—without putting anything in his mouth—considered among those who were overcome by vomiting and is not required to make up the day?
Is it permissible for someone who has undergone surgery to remove a part of the ureter and is experiencing kidney pain to break their fast, given that they are unable to make up for the days they miss?
What is the ruling regarding someone who made a covenant with Allah to abandon a sin but then returned to it, and possesses only a small amount of money insufficient for expiation? Is it permissible for him to fast or to take food from his home to distribute among the needy?
Do I have to fast as an atonement after I participated in a conversation about a secret that I had sworn not to reveal, even though people were already talking about it and I was not the one who divulged it?
Is it permissible to draw an analogy with eating and drinking out of forgetfulness in the case of using nasal drops while fasting, when their taste is present, remembered, and an attempt is made to expel them?
What is the ruling on fasting the two months of Ramadan which the questioner intended to include within a year of fasting, being ignorant of the religious ruling? And do Mondays and Thursdays fall within the fasting of this year, or are they separate from it, taking into account that he broke his fast on very few days throughout the year?
Is it obligatory to make up a fast on a day when one broke it, thinking that the time had begun based on a mistaken adhan, while a means of verifying the adhan of Makkah Al-Mukarramah was available?
What is the ruling on handling a real human skull for study during fasting?
Is expiation (kaffara) obligatory for someone who intended to fast after the break of dawn, then made up that day five years later? And is it obligatory to inform one's sister about the necessity of making up the fast if her intention was hesitant, like that of the questioner?
Does using a nasal spray, the taste of which may sometimes be felt in the throat, when the nose is blocked due to sinus allergies, invalidate fasting?
Is a single expiatory offering (kaffarah) for an oath obligatory, or one for each day, upon one who swore not to stay an extra day at his workplace after the end of his secondment, and was unable to fulfill his oath? And is it permissible for him to fast three days as expiation for his oath, or is feeding (the poor) obligatory?
What is the ruling on the yellow saliva found upon waking from sleep; does it break the fast or not, and does swallowing it while asleep during fasting break the fast, and is it impure, and must what falls from it be cleaned?
Is it obligatory to fast as an expiation for violating an oath by writing in a borrowed book, or is that considered a vain oath for which there is no expiation?
Is it obligatory to make up the day in Ramadan for someone who had a wet dream a quarter of an hour before Fajr, and then noticed a discharge of wady after performing ghusl?
Is it permissible for someone upon whom an expiatory oath (kaffarat yamin) became obligatory, and he did not possess the means, so he delayed it, then later acquired the money, to offer it as feeding ten poor people, or is he obligated to fast; given that he broke his oath when he was not able to feed? And is expiation obligatory for someone who doubts whether he broke his oath?
Does an expiatory oath (kaffarat yamin) become binding on me on the third day, after I have fasted for two days?
Is eating by a fasting person forgetfully on Thursday considered breaking the fast, and is the custom of fasting on Mondays and Thursdays considered a pre-existing intention that permits the continuation of the fast in the event of forgetting the day?
Is it permissible for a Muslim to rely on astronomical calculations for the beginning and end of fasting, or is it necessary to sight the moon?
What is the ruling concerning my sister's fasting, given that she is accustomed to eating stones every day, and is she required to make up the days on which she ate stones?