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 […]

Question: With respect to blood flowing out, what are the situations in which it nullifies the fast? Response: The fast is not nullified except by cupping according to that which is correct. There is a strong difference of opinion in this and many see that the fast is not nullified even by cupping. However, the […]

Question: Is the fast of the cupper and the cupped broken during the day in Ramadhaan? What is the ruling, do they continue with their fast broken or make up for that which has passed or what? Response: The fast of the cupper and the cupped is broken and they must refrain from all that […]