 سلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Welcome to احكام SOS Ramadan Special My name is Mustoin Shah and wishing you all happy Ramadan and Ramadan kareem Joining me on today's show is Sheikh Ali M probable problèmeللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللللل وانتو من شاى اللله شايخنا لنبدأ مع What is fasting? I mean we discussed the meaning of fasting and it's rude But what is fasting? ماذا يعني for one to fast؟ أعوذ بالله السميع العليم من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصل الله على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين الله خمس الله فاستيني is abstaining and refraining from eating and drinking and from breaking your fast from the time of Adhan al-Fajr when the mu'addan says Allahu Akbar you cannot eat anything else from Adhan al-Fajr the morning pray till Adhan al-Maghrib between these two periods you're not allowed to eat or drink anything so that is actually the meaning of fasting these now to add on that it's not just to refrain eating and drinking as I've mentioned in the previous episodes you have to also have the intention, the niyah for the cause of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to get closer and to seek nearness to Allah the Almighty that's important because fasting is a worship so you must have with any worship the pure intention the right intention for the cause of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that we don't encounter fasting is just to refrain from eating and drinking but also to have the intention that it is for the cause of Allah we are obeying Allah we are trying to apply Allah's commands on earth so by praying, by going to Hajj, by fasting and so forth that's very important so sheikhna is fasting in Ramadan is this the only type of fasting or is the other types of fasting what do you have throughout the year well the fasting may fall in four categories in the ahkam so we have the wajib obligatory fasting you have the forbidden, the haram fasting and you have the makruh fasting and you have the mustahab fasting so four ahkam for the fasting so we actually have fasting that you're not allowed to do you're not allowed to do it isn't this like saying isn't fasting like a good act and an act to be close to God how can it be made haram well if Allah سبحانه وتعالى otherwise He authorizes and He legislates this hukum then we have to abide if He says this type of fasting is haram then we have to abide and Allah has the wisdom and the hekma for making such rules and ahkam with regard to forbidding the fasting or making obligatory so He is the wise for that let's begin with the obligatory fasting so the month of Ramadan is one of them and the main ones the wajib and obligatory fasting and also if you do nether or oath that also makes your fasting wajib to fulfill this nether or this oath so that's the wajib the main wajib obligatory and fasting the forbidden ones are the ones in which you are not allowed to fast the fasting is void and it's haram so you'll be punished for fasting on this day because you're disobeying Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah says to you don't fast on this day which is the عيد الفطر and عيد الأطحة 2 عيدs you're not allowed to fast so if you disobeying Allah you'll get the sin of course well with regard to mustahab there are certain days in the year that you can fast as mustahab let's say the beginning of the month the lunar the hijri month and the middle of the month the last day of the month you have also to fast mustahab all the month of Rajab and Shaaban okay some of the pious believers used to fast the two months continuously and they link it to Ramadan so they fast Rajab, Shaaban and of course Ramadan so 90 days roughly 90 days they observe fasting and there are great thawab and great rewards are given for those who fast as a mustahab in the month of Rajab and Shaaban you can find them in the books of Ad'ia like Mafatih Jannah and so forth that fasting one day what is the reward of that one day fasting 2 days 3 days and so forth so it's very important that we observe also fasting the mustahab the mustahab fasting itself prepares the believer to begin the month of Ramadan with confidence when the issues won't harm him when he starts the first day of Ramadan unlike if you if you don't fast the month of Rajab and the month of Shaaban and then you straight away begin the first day of month of Ramadan it would be difficult for some people so the month of Rajab, Shaaban preparation for the fasting of the month of Ramadan for the Ibadah for prayers everything exactly some kind of practice bodily spiritually gives that chance to train yourself for the fast and for the Ibadah and for the forthcoming of the holy month of Ramadan and of course we have the Makruh the disliked fasting and which is the day of Ashura it is Makruh for the one to make the intention from the Fajr to the Maghrib of fasting that day unlike the majority of the Sunni sect that they actually have that day sadly they fast as a thanking Allah for saving Musa from such and such they have their own narrations which we don't accept it and we've been encouraged by Ahlulbayt that we don't fast this day but what we can do on this day day of Ashura to refrain from let's say eating till the afternoon time and then you drink a cup of water you eat something, dates for example just to commemorate that because at the time of the Battle of Karbullah on Ashura Imam Hussein's camp they didn't have any food or water so I guess it's in a way just to remember what they were going through and to understand what they were on the Plains of Karbullah and it wasn't until about Zohar at the time anyway the problem with the fasting that it is some kind of sign of joy and thanking Allah so like some of the Bani Umayyah they fasted on that day as if thanking Allah that they became victorious against Al-Hussain Al-Hussain for example so it is a Makruh we have to refrain from fasting this day and we just have to refrain from eating too much food on that day just to show the sorrow and the grievance I see, okay okay by having just a cup of to show that you were grieving exactly but to make the intention of fasting that is what we have been discouraged to do so Who is fasting obligatory upon I mean who must fast Well fasting the holy month of Ramadan is obligatory for every Muslim male and female but with one or two conditions that they have to be sane عقل and they have to be baligh they have reached the age of adolescence and puberty that's very important so the Ahkam the worships and the Ibadat would be accepted and taken into consideration by reaching in that age and that period of baligh and of course that doesn't mean that if a child in the age of a boy let's say in the age of 12 13 he wants to fast some ulama that his Amman also accepted he gets the reward his parents get the reward for example but it's not counted as a proper fasting because the the wajib becomes wajib when they reach the age of adolescence and and the malakas start to write the hasenat and sayat and the wajib and so forth so that is where the fasting becomes wajib upon the Muslim male or female and of course with regard to the age of balug the age of balug and adolescence for the female when she completes the lunar the hijri calendar the age of 9 when she completes 9 entering the year 10 then she becomes balug and she must do the ibadat as her parents do as a normal an ordinary adult do the ibadat they have to do as well and for the boys when they complete the lunar and the hijri year of 15 exactly for the male and that's important of course for the male sometimes it is earlier sometimes in the age of 13 14 depending on the signs of the balug that's important but that's the max if the boy didn't see or noticed any alama any sign then they have to wait till the 15 they complete the 15 age and then they start the wajib and so forth what happens when we have a young girl let's say she's 10 years old now she's reached the age of balug and it's summertime the fast are extremely long for her is it mandatory and wajib for her to fast you see Allah سبحانه وتعالى is a merciful lord and when he legislated these these rules he did them with his wisdom with his wisdom so when he said سبحانه وتعالى that the female should become wajib on her the prayers fasting and so forth in such age then he knows that she is able capable in that age unlike the boy she is able however to begin with the first year we shouldn't actually press too much on the girls you must if she can't then she breaks her fast and there are rules for this case that she can drink the water for example if she can't bear the fasting and then she does the Qaba for example without Qafar for example and so forth so there are these issues and rules with the surga so Islam is again as I've said asks the person to fast and she must observe fasting with no regret with no mercy حسن الشيخ now you were talking about fasting happens from the Fajr Adhan to the Maghrib Adhan now does this mean as soon as the Adhan is spoken and read that is when it begins to stop eating there or can you let the Adhan run carry on eating when the Adhan finishes that's when you can stop eating or should we actually stop eating in Imsa well the Ahkam here as he says that it is mandatory to refrain from eating and drinking just shortly before the Adhan of Fajr so you have to give a few minutes before that to make sure that you have fasting and you have refrain from eating and drinking while the time is for the Adhan so just a few minutes before the Adhan you have to stop as we have seen in some of the calendars in the month of Ramadan they have the Imsaaki so Imsaak 10-15 minutes before that and of course we have to also break the fast just a few minutes or just shortly so again to fulfill the fact that we have observed fasting correctly from the Adhan of Fajr till the Maghrib time so you have a perfect fasting with no issue of timing so you won't fall into the the Masala and the issue that well did I break my fast before the Adhan in let's say 10 minutes or sometimes it happens some people would straight away break their fast puts the dates in his mouth by the second Muaddin says Allah Akbar for example although he is accurate but not always you can rely on the Adhan 100% they are at the end of the day people like me and you we might make mistakes we give it a little bit of time more time just a short bit of time after the Adhan and then we break the fast أسان شكرا thank you very much and thank you to all our viewers for joining us on today's show إن شاء الله you will be joining us throughout the Ramadan as we will be looking at different Ahkam rules in regards to and fasting until next time السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته