What Breaks the Fast
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Are asthma inhalers, inhaled capsules, and liquids vaporized through nebulizers considered among the things that break the fast?
Does vomiting resulting from a patient's treatment sessions necessitate making up the fast and breaking it?
What is the ruling on vowing continuous fasting (for a month or four months) with the intention of disciplining oneself, coupled with the condition, "If I believe in Allah the Almighty and the Last Day," and does this condition make it similar to saying, "He is a Jew or a Christian if he does not do such and such"?
Does the fast of a worker in a salt factory become void if he inhales salt dust or finds its taste in his throat, given its abundance and the difficulty of getting rid of it?
Is a girl who continued masturbating in Ramadan, with doubt about ejaculation and not remembering when she learned that ejaculation invalidates the fast, required to make up the days and offer expiation?
Is it permissible to say "I love you" to one's husband while fasting?
What is the required expiation (kaffarah) for Ẓihār obligatory upon the husband, and is it permissible to feed 60 needy persons meat and bread sandwiches as part of it?
Is fasting every Monday sufficient, or is it necessary to fast on Thursdays as well, for someone who cannot fast on Thursdays due to special circumstances?
Does using the bidet forcefully to facilitate defecation invalidate the fast, especially with the uncertainty of water reaching the interior of the body?
Is it a condition for the three days of fasting for an oath's expiation to be consecutive?
What is the ruling on the fast of a traveling man who intended to break his fast but then changed his mind and completed his fast until sunset?
What is the ruling according to the Malikis on a fasting person swallowing his saliva mixed with a small amount of yellowish or pinkish blood, after trying to spit it out for minutes until the saliva becomes clear and his throat dries?
Is paying an expiation (kaffarah) for an oath considered valid for someone who swore to fast for a week but was unable to fulfill it?
Is the fast of one who intended to fast while she was menstruating, and became pure before Fajr, but did not perform ghusl until after the adhan, valid?
Is it permissible to break the fast in Ramadan if the company compels an employee to take his annual leave during this month, and how is this day to be made up if one breaks the fast?
Does tasting blood in the throat and spitting out a small amount of it invalidate the fast, and is a make-up fast obligatory in this case?
Does the smell of Vicks have a tangible mass that enters the stomach when applied to the forehead and nose while fasting?
Is it permissible to fast two consecutive months as expiation for the deceased, and is it permissible for living siblings to divide the fasting consecutively among themselves?
Does blood coming out of the nose, and even if small amounts of it enter the throat, break one's fast?
Is expiation for an oath (feeding ten needy persons, or clothing them, or fasting three days) obligatory for one who only possesses enough for his expenses?
Does the use of artificial oxygen for patients with shortness of breath during fasting affect their fast?
Does a fasting person break their fast simply when the sun disappears from their sight in a city with buildings, or do they wait for darkness to set in?
Is it a condition for fasting the seven days for one who cannot find a sacrificial animal that they be consecutive, or is it permissible to separate them?
Does tasting table salt forgetfully while helping one's wife prepare Iftar break the fast?