What is required of the one who is unable to fast due to old age or a prolonged illness?
Tag: fasting
That which invalidates the fast
It is obligatory for the Muslim to know of all that invalidates the fast so as to be aware of them.
The beginning and ending of the daily fast
It starts from the adhaan of the Fajr prayer and finishes at sunset [at the time of the adhaan of the Maghrib prayer].
The obligation of the fast of Ramadhaan and it’s time
It’s obligation is indicated in the Qur.aan, the Sunnah and al-ijmaa’ (major consensus)
The rulings pertaining to making up the fast
Whoever breaks his fast or is unable to fast during Ramadhaan due to an Islaamically permissible reason, then he is required to make up for this day.
A servant who fasts a day in the way of Allaah
There is not a servant who fasts a day in the way of Allaah, except that Allaah removes his face from the Fire by the distance of seventy years because of that.
Fasting is a shield
Fasting is a shield with which a servant protects himself from the Fire.
Take to fasting, there is nothing like it
O Messenger of Allaah tell me of an action by which I may enter Paradise?
Was told that washing hair breaks the fast
An imaam of a mosque told me that washing the hair during the day in Ramadhaan breaks the fast, the reason being that water enters through the roots of the hair. What is your answer to this?
That which constitutes the intention to fast in Ramadhaan
Is it a must for one who is fasting, that when he makes the intention to fast in Ramadhaan that he specify that it is an obligatory fast?