What Breaks the Fast
1,235 questions
What should a Muslim worker do if asked to serve coffee and tea to those who are breaking their fast during the day in Ramadan, and is he permitted to do so under the threat of termination of his services and deportation?
What is the ruling on a man who broke his fast in Ramadan based on a fatwa of jihad, then had sexual intercourse with his wife while she was fasting during the daytime in Ramadan after his return from the front, and what is the ruling on his wife in both cases?
What is the supplication we say when we break our fast while fasting?
Does tasting coffee with an attempt not to swallow any of it, leaving a taste and smell in the mouth, invalidate the fast?
Is what happened considered a dereliction of duty that necessitates fasting, and if so, upon whom is it obligatory, and is it permissible to divide it?
Will God accept the fast of one who possesses investment certificates and speculates in the shares of usurious banks, and is he thereby considered a usurer?
What is incumbent upon the people of a neighborhood who broke their fast, thinking the time had come, then it became clear to them that the muezzin had made a mistake in his adhan?
Which of the two is more sinful: the hypocrite who claims to be fasting while secretly eating and drinking in Ramadan, or the one who openly eats and drinks in broad daylight during Ramadan?
What must one who used nasal drops (Atrovent) for twenty years while fasting, believing that they do not break the fast, then came to know that they do, do?
Will one be rewarded for fasting a day of make-up if the fasting person breaks their fast in response to Imam al-Sadiq's invitation?
Is it permissible for a Muslim man to speak with his fiancée over the phone while he is fasting?
Does intentionally swallowing vomit, or that which has come out of a fasting person's stomach and returned to it, break the fast, and is there any opinion in the four schools of thought that permits this?
Is it necessary to complete the fasting for an expiation of an oath if the money becomes available to feed the needy after one has started fasting?
Is fasting for 10 months the only atonement for my friend's sin of intentional masturbation five times during the daytime in Ramadan, given that he is unable to fast or feed the poor, and is it permissible for him to deviate from the Maliki school of thought in this situation?
Is it permissible to expel phlegm and saliva with water while fasting, out of necessity, and does that invalidate the fast?
Does the hadith "Whoever gives a fasting person food to break his fast will have a reward like theirs, without it detracting from their reward in the slightest" include the poor, or does it extend to include relatives and friends, and does the same reward apply to voluntary fasting?
Does using creams on the hands or face invalidate Wudu'?
Is it permissible to break a fasting person's fast with the intention of an atonement for an oath (kaffarat yameen)?
Must one fulfill a vow to fast on Thursday if the vow was modified to be conditional on achieving first place in the school, while only first place in the class was achieved?
Is it permissible to cook while fasting?
What is the ruling on one who cannot fast except by taking medication to avoid severe migraines that lead to nausea, and is it permissible for her to offer fidyah (redemption) by giving charity to the poor for the days she breaks her fast?
Does the fasting become void and require making up the day and expiation if intromission occurred and pre-seminal fluid was discharged unintentionally during foreplay with one's wife in the daytime in Ramadan?
Is it obligatory to make up the days one intentionally missed fasting in Ramadan without an excuse?
Must one continue fasting with severe diarrhea, pain, exhaustion, and dehydration?