Category: Fatwa – religious verdicts

Question: Does fasting have any social benefits? Response: Yes, it has social benefits. From them is the feeling people have that they are one nation eating at one time and fasting at one time. The wealthy one is cognizant of Allaah’s blessings and is sympathetic to the poor. Fasting lessens shaytaan’s treachery to the son […]

Question: Some people hold banquets and give invitations in Ramadhaan making it a month of occasions. Others slaughter, and distribute the meat, in charity and make other types of effort with food. What is the ruling regarding this? Response: Yes, offering food in Ramadhaan has extra virtue due to the nobility of the time and […]

Question: When a Muslim fasts, is he able to overcome his needs and desires? How is that? How does the Muslim view the world in its reality? Response: Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala) has made fasting obligatory for the benefit of the worshipers in order to purify their souls. So fasting entails refraining from food and […]

Question: A girl reached the age of 12 or 13 years and the blessed month of Ramadhaan passed without her having fasted. Is there any sin upon her or her family? Is it upon her to fast and if she doesn’t then is she sinning? Response: The girl becomes Islaamically bound with (the following) conditions: […]

Question: What is the ruling regarding a Muslim who neglected to fast without a permissible excuse for a number of years? He was fulfilling the other obligations upon him. Does he make them up or seek to expiate them? How would he make these months up if he had to? Response: The ruling regarding a […]

Question: Is a person who leaves off fasting due to laziness and heedlessness like the one that leaves off prayer in the respect that he is a disbeliever (kaafir)? Response: The one that leaves off fasting out of heedlessness and laziness is not a disbeliever. That is because the basic rule is that a person […]

Question: During one of the days in Ramadhaan, about fifteen minutes before Maghrib, I wiped my teeth with a tissue and some blood began flowing but I had not intended this. I have had this illness for some time and even when I brush my teeth with a miswaak (tooth stick), blood begins to flow […]

Question: Does the blood that comes out from between the teeth accidentally, break the fast? What if it is from other than himself, i.e. that someone had hit him accidentally? Response: Blood which comes out from between the teeth accidentally does not break the fast, whether it is from

Question: If one felt pain in his teeth and went to the dentist who either cleaned them or removed one of his teeth, does any of this have any effect on his fast? If the dentist gave him an anaesthetic injection, does this affect the fast? Response: None of that which is mentioned in the […]

Question: If one causes blood to flow, such as having his molar tooth pulled out? Response: There is no problem, because he did not have his tooth pulled out to cause blood flow, rather, because of pain. So therefore, he wished to have his tooth removed. Then it is the norm that blood will flow […]