What Breaks the Fast
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What is the ruling on a fasting person continuing to eat even during the Fajr adhan?
What is the ruling on a traveler breaking their fast on an airplane if their journey began one or two hours before iftar? Should they break their fast according to the timing of the country they departed from, or the country they are headed to?
What is the ruling on a fasting person using skin creams, and does it invalidate the fast if he tastes it in his mouth, and is this different from the substance reaching the throat?
How do I emancipate a slave ( رقبة), and what are the ways to achieve that?
What is the ruling on breaking the fast in Ramadan without saying "Bismillah" in the restroom?
Does chopping onions while fasting and tasting their flavor in the throat break the fast?
Have I committed a sin by the involuntary emission of semen after swearing on the Qur'an to abandon masturbation for two months?
What is the ruling on breaking the fast while making up for an obligatory fast?
Is someone who masturbates without using their hand or fantasies considered sinful, and why, especially since there is no medical research proving its harm except when done excessively?
What is the difference in the legal ruling between one who deliberately breaks his fast during the day in Ramadan and one who has sexual intercourse with his wife during it, even though both are deliberate?
What should a person do who swore many oaths in the past, without knowing that each oath requires expiation, and has estimated the value of the expiations due from him to be a large sum that he cannot currently afford to pay?
Is it permissible to fast on Saturday?
Is the fast valid if the fasting person drank after hearing a distant adhan that was not relied upon, then stopped drinking upon hearing the adhan of the nearby, relied-upon mosque, with food coloring remaining on the tongue after dawn, knowing that the muezzin relies on timings or the Adhan of Mecca and suffers from scrupulosity?
Is there expiation for breaking an oath not to return to a sin that was committed unintentionally? And what is the ruling on posting pictures of a deceased person on Facebook?
What is the ruling regarding a diabetic patient, and is it permissible for him to attempt fasting?
What is the ruling on swallowing phlegm while fasting, with a definition of phlegm?
What should I do if I broke my fast for three days in Ramadan by engaging in intercourse, unaware of its expiation, and can feeding the poor be a substitute for fasting two consecutive months, and is it permissible to give the food expiation to an elderly care home?
Is it permissible for one who has made an act of ẓihār against his wife to have intercourse with her during the period of expiation, if it involves fasting for two consecutive months? And would that invalidate the fast and require him to restart?
What should I do with my wife, whom I made an oath upon not to go to a certain place, but she violated my oath and went, and now I am obliged to fast three days as expiation for the oath?
Does recurring blood from the teeth, swallowing mucus and saliva, and the taste and residue of food in the mouth break one's fast?
Is it permissible for a pregnant woman suffering from gestational diabetes, who is following a dietary regimen, to break her fast in Ramadan, and what is incumbent upon her after Ramadan if she breaks her fast?
Does the emission of a small layer of saliva or things from the stomach during sleep, and a part of it entering the pharynx after waking up, constitute an error during fasting, nullifying the fast or not?
Is lying to one's husband about performing supererogatory acts of worship (such as praying Qiyam al-Layl or voluntary fasting) a sin, especially if the lie is to avoid his negative reactions or his disapproval without a valid reason?
If saliva comes out of the mouth due to moistening the lips, is it permissible to return it and swallow it while fasting, or is that considered excessive scrutiny?