 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ورحمة الله وبركاتكم إلى أحقام SOS the Ramadan Edition إن شاء الله you've been fasting and you've been reaping the benefits and having a very, very spiritual Ramadan I'm your host Mosin Shah and joining me is Shaykh Ali Ma'ash السلام عليكم Shaykhna السلام عليكم ورحمة الله الحمد لله as the fasting guy تقاب الله الصيام وانتو من إن شاء الله Shaykhna we've been discussing the different أحقام from the Marja the Sayyid the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Salik Shirazi what is his opinion on or his ruling on if someone has Qadha fasts but he has no idea how many he has left for example if he has two or three or four or was not aware or has forgotten that oh I was traveling I traveled for this many days I was in this many days I'm not sure what does one do in that situation إن شاء الله أعوذ بالله السميع العلي من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصر الله على محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين if an individual is not sure about the number of days that he missed and he has Qadha for the month of Ramadan well that person needs to go back and calculate the dates in which he are sure about them uncertain so let's say when you ask him he would say yes I'm sure 95% let's say that it was six days but I'm not sure if it was seven days or more but six days is something I'm sure about it so they have to only take the certain days so only the certain days that they are sure about they do the Qadha and they have to leave the rest which they have doubt and unsure so this is the main case for those who have missed and have Qadha for the month of Ramadan and Shaykhna when you have determined how many fasts you have to do how many Qadha you have do you have to do them straight away after 8 the following day after 8 you have to start paying back your Qadha fast well for the Qadha you are not oblique to begin the Qadha straight away on the second day of Shawwal which is the second day of 8 because on the first day of 8 it's Haram to fast yes Qadha or anything else but for the second of Shawwal onwards it's not wajib for you to begin the Qadha of those days and continuous of the days so let's say you had six days you start straight away after the 8 no you have all the year from Shawwal all the way to Shaaban the following year up to the month of Ramadan of the following year so you have to make sure that you did all the Qadha before the start and the commencement of the month of Ramadan of next year that's very important so you go 11 months to do the Qadha whenever you want in the winter time you know the hours are short for example it's not that hot for example you do the Qadha and not necessarily to be consecutive and continuous six days you can do once a week for six weeks for example every Saturday one day of Aba and that's it and insha'Allah I'll accept the fasting أحسنت شيخنا شيخنا do I have to do the Qadha so myself the fast do I have to repay it and what if someone can't pay it back is he allowed to get somebody else to do it for him well it is important to know that the wajibat like the fasting the prayers as long as the individual is alive in this world and still living and breathing they must do themselves the Qadha of Salah of Psalm and such like however with regard to the one who departs this world the diseased one so let's say someone's father dies and the father has a few days of Qadha then it is the obligation of the older son the bigger son who is the Wali he becomes the Wali now the Wali who is in charge of the the issues with regard to his father for example he has to fast the Qadha of his father and of course there's a condition with this regard that if he wants to do the Qadha of his father for the month of Ramadan it has to be with an excuse so the father let's say he was in trouble and he lost his life let's say he died in trouble in the month of Ramadan or let's say he was ill he couldn't fast that month then the older son must do the Qadha for these days in which the father had an excuse but if the father was God forbid a non-religious let's say he never fasted he never prayed in this case no there's no obligatory on the older son the Wali to to do the Qadha of the fast it's only when the father has an excuse illness or trouble and he missed the month of Ramadan fasting can you actually pay these people as well to keep the fast on behalf of the deceased well if the Wali who is the older son in this scenario didn't want to do the Qadha himself then he is if he's got the means the right money to give it to somebody to hire somebody and pays him to do the Qadha of the month of Ramadan of his deceased father so that's fine find somebody and there are people around who would charge an amount of money to do the Qadha of the month of Ramadan or the Qadha of the prayers for the whole year for example and that is allowed and valid yes and the the Qadha will be insha'Allah accepted as well I understand I understand I have some other questions in regards to fasting a bit miscellaneous can a Muslim who is fasting can he offer a food and drink to another Muslim if that person is deliberately not fasting according to the Sayyid's Mas'ala in this regard he says it's not allowed and permitted for the mu'min who is fasting to offer and serve food or drink to a Muslim or even to the non-Muslim because the a haqam is also obligated on even the non-Muslims they have to also join the belief and fast and pray and so forth so in this case we are not allowed to offer and serve the food particularly to the Muslims who are as I've said non-religious for example they don't fast they don't pray in the month of Ramadan in the daytime of course not in the night time and of course the Sayyid says also the non-Muslims because the haqam is also bound to them not only the non-Muslims I understand and Sheikh Na'a what if I'm not fasting I have a legitimate reason I'm ill I'm travelling this and that am I allowed to eat and drink food especially in front of other Muslims well the Sayyid says it is Makruh and disliked by the Sharia that you eat in front of somebody else let's say you're ill and your parents are well they have no issue or your sisters or brothers and you start eating and one of them in the month of Ramadan this is something disliked and Makruh by the Sharia so you try to find an isolated place in your own bedroom for example you close the room or somewhere away from the view of the people and you begin eating and drinking because you're ill or travelling or anything else and other excuses otherwise it's better to avoid it I understand Sheikh Na'a Sheikh Na'a what about students and especially people who do hard labour if fasting is too difficult for them are they allowed to break their fast? well such excuses for those who are studying let's say or working hard as long as they don't suffer extreme thirst or extreme hunger it's just that we get tired you get thirsty this is how the month of Ramadan the wisdom of this month is that you get thirsty you have to get the feeling of thirst and hunger and we have a Hadith for that that the Imam A.S. says that is to feel that feeling with those who are in poverty who don't have the bread in their dinner time for example to eat and they sleep hungry for example the idea of the fasting is to make us to feel the hunger and the thirst so there's no excuse no if you have exams if you're revising for the exams you got coursework to do for example you still have to fast and if the one who's working let's say in construction or teaching or anything else with regard to working practice they must fast they must continue their fast from the Fajr to the month of Ramadan unless as I've said it goes extreme and they really needed to break their fast due to difficulty and continuation of the fasting otherwise if they feel well then they're not allowed to break their fast Shesma wait if a student turns around and says well I'm fasting I can't concentrate in my lessons I've got exams coming I've got a big project to finish I need food and drink to keep my mind working is this a valid excuse not to fast well again there's no excuse for them to break their fast however there is a solution for that they can actually travel on that day let's say they have it on the exam day they can travel outside their hometown by traveling 45 km in and out so they go outside their own city or village they travel when they reach that destination they can break their fast in the morning break their fast and then they come back home and they become a rule of travel as a traveler and they can drink and eat that's fine in this situation they can overcome this situation so traveling on that day break your fast in travel and then come back and then do their exam or whatever they had to do and they have to of course afterwards after the month from dawn to do the Qada of that a particular day that they broke their fast due to an excuse which is to suffer and travel Shaykhna what if I was keeping a fast and suddenly I felt very very thirsty extremely thirsty I drank a cup of water and I continued my fast is my fast still valid and if not do I have to do Qada or pay a Qafar for that again if it was extreme thirst extreme hunger you know almost losing you know fainting for example all these conditions allow you to be up fast that's fine drink that water but make sure that you do the Qada afterwards and there's no Qafar but if it was deliberate and it's just because of feeling a bit tired or a bit thirst then that will make the fast void and battle and with Qafar as well because you walk it deliberately and that's not an excuse that I'm feeling thirsty I'm feeling tired and into drink to eat that will make the one to pay Qafar as well but in extreme situations no it's just the Qaba and Shaykhna in regards to something going down your throat I remember we discussed about dust thick dust going and smoke and steam Shaykhna what about when I put on perfume you said it was musta haab to wear perfume for someone who's fasting to wear perfume so I spray a bit here here sometimes the smell goes down your throat sometimes you can taste the smell does this invalidate the fast? well you have to make sure and be careful when you use the perfume that the when you spray the perfume make sure that nothing of those sprays and the liquids reaches your thought so you spray it on your clothes let's say for example even if you feel the taste let's say in your throat but it wasn't actually the drops or the sprays it's just the smell just the scent in your nose in your throat that's fine as long as there's no particles of that spray of liquid went inside your throat so that's fine I mean even if you smell the creams or using shampoo let's say yeah that's fine the smell is a smell it doesn't break the fast what about if you're going let's say in Ramadan I don't know where this happens but you can smell everything you can smell all the food especially when you walk past a restaurant or a bakery and you can smell that fresh bread and that smell and sometimes your mouth starts to water as well does this invalidate the fast? not at all these are not part of the invalidators of fast as we mentioned we have 10 main ones and the smellings would not break the fast be it food be it anything else and you've mentioned the mkruhat some of the plants it's mkruhat to smell them but it won't break your fast but it's mkruhat to smell them some of the plants you know it's got nice scent but otherwise whatever you smell good or bad will not break your fast that's it Shaykhana you were talking about immerse one's head in water invalidates the fast what about when we have a shower and there's water on our head all the time and then we're showering or we get shampoo we put shampoo all over our head does this invalidate the fast? what does the difference between immersing and taking a shower immerse is to put your head entire head inside a bucket of water inside a pool inside a pond the seawater to go the whole thing inside so you're talking about massive water immersion exactly full immersion exactly taking a shower that's not immersion that's different that's different subject that's more like applying water to you you apply water on your head that's fine and let it be all together straight away that's fine the immersion is the one in which invalidates the fast that's it Shaykhana my final question is it better for us to do the wozoo and go pray the salah should we open our fast? well in this case it is mustahab for the one to pray first it's better to pray first of course to begin with the salah and then you go and eat however if if you are in a situation that you want to be able to pay attention to the salah in the salah you say Allah Akbar and you think about the food and when I'm going to finish my salah and you try to finish it quickly to go and eat in this case and in the other case is where you have somebody waiting for you let's say your parents your family a guest waiting for you on the dinner table so for these two cases no it's better to eat first and then you pray afterwards but the general rule is that to pray first is the best option thank you very much Shaykhana and thank you to all our views for joining us on today's episode إن شاء الله you've benefited and you'll be able to focus properly in your prayer إن شاء الله until the next episode السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته