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The Rules on Prayer & Fasting 2023

  • Prayer
  • Fasting
    • Conditions and Requirements of Obligatory Fast
    • Obligatory Acts of Fasting
    • Makrūh Acts during a Fast
    • Cases in which Qaḍā’ and Intentional kaffārah Are Obligatory
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      Cases in which Qaḍā’ and Intentional kaffārah Are Obligatory

       

      879. Whenever one commits a fast invalidator* intentionally, by choice, and without a shar‘ī excuse during the holy month of Ramadan, in addition to the fact that the fast is invalidated and requires qaḍā’, they are obligated to observe intentional kaffārah, whether they know that it requires kaffārah or not.
      * Except for sleeping a junub person without making ghusl whose rules has been mentioned in details.
       
      880. If one commits a fast invalidator as they do not know the shar‘ī rule, such as they do not know that taking medicine is the same as taking other edible things and invalidates the fast. Even in this case if he takes medicine on the day of Ramadan, his fast is invalidated and he must make its qaḍā’. But kaffārah is not obligatory.
      881. If one does something that he knows it is ḥarām but does not know that it invalidates the fast, then in addition to qaḍā’, he must pay kaffārah by obligatory caution.
      882. If something comes up into the mouth of a fasting person, he should not swallow it, and if he swallows it intentionally, both qaḍā’ and kaffārah becomes obligatory.
      883. If someone makes a nadhr to fast on a certain day, if he intentionally does not fast on that day or invalidates his fast, he must pay kaffārah, i.e. to feed ten poor persons or give them clothes. In case that one is not able to do that, he must fast for three days.
      884. One is obligated to perform qaḍā’ fast as well as kaffārah if one breaks his fast in the month of Ramadan as someone says that it is time for maghrib — while there is no trust in his statement — and then the former realizes that it was not maghrib.
      885. If a person who intentionally invalidates his fast goes on a journey on that day, the kaffārah remains obligatory.
      886. In the case of sexual intercourse, the fast of both partners is invalid and it becomes obligatory for both of them to perform qaḍā’ and kaffārah.
    • The Kaffārah of Breaking Fast Intentionally
    • Cases in which Only Qaḍā’ of Fasting Is Obligatory
    • Rulings of Qaḍā’ Fast
    • Kaffārah of Delay
    • The Rulings on Qaḍā’ of One's Parent's Missed Prayers/Fasts
    • Rulings on a Traveler's Fast
    • People for Whom Fast Is not Obligatory
    • Way of Ascertaining the First of a Lunar Month
    • Types of Fasting
    • Conclusion: Fasting Etiquettes and these of the Holy Month of Ramadan
    • I‘tikāf
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