What Breaks the Fast
1,487 questions
What is the ruling on inhaling Turkish coffee during the daytime in Ramadan to energize the body for work, given feelings of lethargy and drowsiness without it?
Is repentance and expiation obligatory for one who breaks his oath by returning to disobedience after swearing on the Qur’an to abandon it, and is it permissible to pay the expiation from the mother's money, given the financial circumstances?
Is it permissible for me to make someone swear to pay the expiation if he breaks his oath, and what is the expiation for this oath?
Is it permissible to return the money to the neighbor after two or three weeks to waive the expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yameen), or does merely taking the money necessitate the expiation?
Does the emission of semen during conversations take the ruling of repeated looking, or does it take the ruling of emission through thought?
What is the ruling for someone who ate or drank during the daytime in Ramadan forgetfully?
Is a girl kissing her friend on the cheeks during the daytime in Ramadan considered forbidden?
What is the ruling regarding someone who touches a girl's hand, or hugs her, or kisses her during the daytime in Ramadan?
What is the ruling on voluntary fasting as a protection against masturbation, when the mother forbids it due to thinness and her unawareness of the real reason?
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?
What is the ruling on receiving the hepatitis vaccine in the right shoulder during daylight hours in 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?
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?
What is the ruling on using teeth whitening trays during the day in Ramadan?
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?