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Fasting Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays every week

Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, The fast of other than Ramadhaan, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 3 July 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

My habit is to fast Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays every week, so is there any harm in that?

Unable to make-up Ramadhaan fasts for four years

Categories of people fasting, Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Making-up the missed days & expiation, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 2 July 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

My wife, who is currently breast feeding, has three or four Ramadhaan’s worth of fasts to make up as she was unable to fast them because she was either pregnant or breastfeeding [at the time].

Unable to fast for three years due to pregnancy every year

Categories of people fasting, Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Making-up the missed days & expiation, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 1 July 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

For three years my wife has been giving birth at the beginning of the month of Ramadhaan and [as such] has not fasted three Ramadhaans. Advice us as to what is the expiation?

Whilst fasting, postpartum bleeding starts again

Categories of people fasting, Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Making-up the missed days & expiation, Shaykh Saalih ibn Fowzaan 30 June 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

A woman who gave birth finds her postpartum bleeding has ceased within a week [of giving birth] and then purifies herself, Thereafter she fasts alongside the rest of the Muslims in Ramadhaan for a…

Refraining from fasting during pregnancy and whilst breastfeeding

Categories of people fasting, Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Making-up the missed days & expiation, Shaykh Saalih ibn Fowzaan 29 June 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

When is it permissible for the pregnant and breastfeeding women to refrain from fasting in Ramadhaan? And what invalidates the fast?

Fasting during pregnancy

Categories of people fasting, Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Making-up the missed days & expiation, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 28 June 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

There is a woman who was nine months pregnant when Ramadhaan arrived, and at the beginning of the month discharge, not blood, would flow from her and she continued to fast whilst the discharge flowed.

Not fasting in Ramadhaan due to military duties

Categories of people fasting, Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Making-up the missed days & expiation, The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts 27 June 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

I am a soldier and Ramadhaan has arrived, so is it permissible for me to refrain from fasting, bearing in mind that my [military] duties do not help me when I’m fasting (i.e.

Not fasting in Ramadhaan to concentrate on exams

Fasting [صوم], Fatwa, Other issues pertaining to the fast, Shaykh ‘Abdul-’Azeez ibn Baaz 26 June 2016 Abu 'Abdullaah

If the secondary level (high school) exam is in Ramadhaan, is it permissible for the student to refrain from fasting in Ramadhaan so he is able to concentrate on [preparing for] the exam?