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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
    • The Kaffārah of Breaking Fast Intentionally
    • Cases in which Only Qaḍā’ of Fasting Is Obligatory
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      Cases in which Only Qaḍā’ of Fasting Is Obligatory

       

      901. A person is to make up for his fast but kaffārah is not required if he abstains from fast invalidators but he:
      a) does not intend to fast on the day of Ramadan;
      b) fasts but in order to show people that he fasts; or,
      c) intends not to fast.
      902. During the night of Ramadan, if a junub person does not wake up from the second sleep until the morning adhān (the details are mentioned in issue 844), he is obligated only to make up for the fast as qaḍā’. Of course, until maghrib, he must refrain from doing things that invalidate the fast.
      903. A person who forgets the ghusl of janābah during the month of Ramadan and fasts for a few days despite his janābah, he is obligated only to make up for these fasts as qaḍā’.
      904. At dawn during Ramadan, as long as he is not sure that it is time for fajr, he can do things that invalidate the fast.
      905. At dawn during Ramadan, if one does something that invalidates the fast without investigating whether it is fajr time or not and then it turns out that it was, he must make up for that day. However, if he does so after investigating and becoming sure that it is before fajr but then it turns out that it was time for morning adhān, he is not to make up for the fast.
      906. On the day of Ramadan, as long as one is not sure of maghrib, he cannot break his fast.
      907. On the day of Ramadan, one breaks his fast after becoming sure that it is maghrib because of darkness or because those, whose news is authentic according to shar‘, say that it is maghrib, but later it turns out that it was not maghrib. In this case, he must perform qaḍā’ of that day.
      908. If, due to the cloudy sky, one thinks it is maghrib and breaks his fast, but later it turns out that it was not maghrib, qaḍā’ of that day is not obligatory.
      909. If it becomes permissible or obligatory to invalidate the fast for some reason, such as if he is forced to do something that invalidates the fast, or if one jumps into the water to save the life of a drowning person, in this case, kaffārah is not obligatory but it is obligatory to make up for this fast as qaḍā’.
      910. If a fasting person during wuḍū’ (when it is mustaḥabb to gargle) gargle with confidence that the water will not go in but water goes in involuntarily, then in case that it is wuḍū’ for an obligatory prayer, his fast is valid. However, if he performs wuḍū’ for something else, or gargle for other than wuḍū’, such as cooling down and the water goes in involuntarily, he should make the qaḍā’ of that day as a caution.
      911. If a fasting person knows that during gargling water will be swallowed unintentionally or out of forgetfulness, he should not gargle.
    • 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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