What Invalidates the Fast :.
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace
and blessings be upon His Messenger.
told him: "I am ruined."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
asked him: "Why?" The man replied: "
I had sexual intercourse with my wife in the day of Ramadan."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then
explained to him how to expiate it.
Both the above-mentioned verse and hadith indicate that
fasting means abstaining from food, drink and sexual intercourse.
Thus, eating, drinking or having sexual intercourse invalidates
one's fasting. Jurists have unanimously agreed that he who commits
any of those three acts must make up for the fast-day he missed,
since that would be a debt, and
" a debt owed to Allah merits even greater consideration "
as was stated in an authentic hadith. Additionally,
having sexual intercourse requires grand expiation, namely
freeing a slave. If a Muslim is unable to do so, he is to fast two
consecutive months. If he is still unable to, he is to feed sixty poor people.
Jurists differ on the exact definition of food and drink.
Some scholars maintain that eating and drinking involve
anything reaching the interior of one's body. Yet, they differ
as to whether "anything" is to be understood in a general sense
or is intended to mean something in particular, including food
and fulfilling one's lusts. They also differ on the meaning of
"interior" : does it mean one's stomach which receives food
and drink or the parts of the human body that cannot be seen
when looking at him or that organ which digests food and medicine?
Consequently, some hold that placing one's finger inside one's
ear invalidates fasting. Conversely, some of them are also of the
view that when food manages to find its way to the body,
not through an open tract, such as with the aid of needles,
one's fasting is not invalidated. Others point:
Should any substance reach the throat from beneath the hair,
through the pores, one's fasting is invalidated, despite the
fact that this is an unconventional channel? On the other hand,
some of them state: Inserting a syringe into the urethra does
not break one's fast, although the latter is an open tract.
Not taking into consideration the true significance of fasting and
relying on a generalized concept of food that included things distant
from the literal and customary meaning of the term, those jurists
issued such varied rulings.
However, of all the famous jurists' views, I select only the following:
1. Fasting is not invalidated on account of placing one's
finger inside one's ear, or because of cleaning it with a cotton
pad or a solution, since nothing can permeate the ear drum and
reach the head, which, in turn, is not an organ that receives food
which nourishes the body.
2. Fasting is not broken by vaginal examination, examination
of piles or tonsils using a spoon or things of the sort.
3. An enema does not invalidate fasting unless the tool
reaches the stomach.
4. Fasting is not invalidated by intravenous, intra-muscular or
subcutaneous injections, since they do not provide one with food
or drink that satisfies hunger or quenches thirst.
5. Nutritive injections, such as glucose injections and the like,
are conventionally regarded as food that does break one's fast.
Whoever takes nutritive injections can do without food for a long
time as they satisfy hunger the way food does. This is in effect
because when food is digested and absorbed, it is circulated in
the blood to the entire body to meet its needs. Alternatively,
nutrition could be directly injected into the blood without necessarily
passing through the alimentary canal.
6. Cooling off the body with cold water or the mouth by gargling
does not invalidate fasting since the
Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was seen pouring water
on his head in the blistering heat while he was fasting.
This was narrated by Ahmad, Abu Dawud and An-Nasa'i.
This is because cooling off the body does not involve the water
reaching the stomach. It merely aims at stopping perspiration in
order to retain the water in the body so as to reduce thirst.
7.Vomiting: It is reported that the
Prophet(peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"Whoever is overcome and vomits, is not to make up for
the fast day, and whoever vomits intentionally must make
up for the fast day." Jurists maintain that vomiting is the coming
out of substances from the stomach through the mouth. If vomiting
takes place accidentally, it does not break fasting. If it is deliberate,
one's fasting is broken.
may Allah's guidance be with us !
insyaAllah
found this article, do read for your understanding
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace
and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Dear brother in Islam, we commend your eagerness
to become well acquainted with Islam and its teachings,
which is the way Allah has chosen for the welfare of His servants.
In response to the question, Sheikh `Atiyyah Saqr, former
head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, states:
As regards fasting, Allah, Exalted be He, says:
(So hold intercourse with them and seek that which
Allah hath ordained for you, and eat and drink until
the white thread becometh distinct to you from the
black thread of the dawn. Then strictly observe the fast
till nightfall.)
(Al-Baqarah: 187)
told him: "I am ruined."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
asked him: "Why?" The man replied: "
I had sexual intercourse with my wife in the day of Ramadan."
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then
explained to him how to expiate it.
Both the above-mentioned verse and hadith indicate that
fasting means abstaining from food, drink and sexual intercourse.
Thus, eating, drinking or having sexual intercourse invalidates
one's fasting. Jurists have unanimously agreed that he who commits
any of those three acts must make up for the fast-day he missed,
since that would be a debt, and
" a debt owed to Allah merits even greater consideration "
as was stated in an authentic hadith. Additionally,
having sexual intercourse requires grand expiation, namely
freeing a slave. If a Muslim is unable to do so, he is to fast two
consecutive months. If he is still unable to, he is to feed sixty poor people.
Jurists differ on the exact definition of food and drink.
Some scholars maintain that eating and drinking involve
anything reaching the interior of one's body. Yet, they differ
as to whether "anything" is to be understood in a general sense
or is intended to mean something in particular, including food
and fulfilling one's lusts. They also differ on the meaning of
"interior" : does it mean one's stomach which receives food
and drink or the parts of the human body that cannot be seen
when looking at him or that organ which digests food and medicine?
Consequently, some hold that placing one's finger inside one's
ear invalidates fasting. Conversely, some of them are also of the
view that when food manages to find its way to the body,
not through an open tract, such as with the aid of needles,
one's fasting is not invalidated. Others point:
Should any substance reach the throat from beneath the hair,
through the pores, one's fasting is invalidated, despite the
fact that this is an unconventional channel? On the other hand,
some of them state: Inserting a syringe into the urethra does
not break one's fast, although the latter is an open tract.
Not taking into consideration the true significance of fasting and
relying on a generalized concept of food that included things distant
from the literal and customary meaning of the term, those jurists
issued such varied rulings.
However, of all the famous jurists' views, I select only the following:
1. Fasting is not invalidated on account of placing one's
finger inside one's ear, or because of cleaning it with a cotton
pad or a solution, since nothing can permeate the ear drum and
reach the head, which, in turn, is not an organ that receives food
which nourishes the body.
2. Fasting is not broken by vaginal examination, examination
of piles or tonsils using a spoon or things of the sort.
3. An enema does not invalidate fasting unless the tool
reaches the stomach.
4. Fasting is not invalidated by intravenous, intra-muscular or
subcutaneous injections, since they do not provide one with food
or drink that satisfies hunger or quenches thirst.
5. Nutritive injections, such as glucose injections and the like,
are conventionally regarded as food that does break one's fast.
Whoever takes nutritive injections can do without food for a long
time as they satisfy hunger the way food does. This is in effect
because when food is digested and absorbed, it is circulated in
the blood to the entire body to meet its needs. Alternatively,
nutrition could be directly injected into the blood without necessarily
passing through the alimentary canal.
6. Cooling off the body with cold water or the mouth by gargling
does not invalidate fasting since the
Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was seen pouring water
on his head in the blistering heat while he was fasting.
This was narrated by Ahmad, Abu Dawud and An-Nasa'i.
This is because cooling off the body does not involve the water
reaching the stomach. It merely aims at stopping perspiration in
order to retain the water in the body so as to reduce thirst.
7.Vomiting: It is reported that the
Prophet(peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"Whoever is overcome and vomits, is not to make up for
the fast day, and whoever vomits intentionally must make
up for the fast day." Jurists maintain that vomiting is the coming
out of substances from the stomach through the mouth. If vomiting
takes place accidentally, it does not break fasting. If it is deliberate,
one's fasting is broken.
may Allah's guidance be with us !
insyaAllah
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