 Salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to Ahkam SOS to show that discusses Islamic duties and practices. Masha Allah during this festive season of Ramadan we have decided to have a live show every day and dedicate the topics towards Islamic pick in regards to Ramadan and fasting. If you have a question that you'd like to ask in regards to Ramadan you can send it via WhatsApp, you can send it via the email or alternatively there's a phone number right there which you should be able to pick up in that corner. Insha Allah you could call us and we've been more than happy to discuss your question. We meaning myself, Mohsin Shah and also Sheikh Ali Ma'a. Salamu alaikum Sheikh Ma'a. Salamu alaikum warahmatullahi. How are you doing this evening? Alhamdulillah, all fine. Alhamdulillah. Insha Allah, may Allah accept all your deeds and you're fasting insha Allah. I know it's a nice hot day today but almost are stuck in and then we're fasting but insha Allah we use this time effectively. Sheikh Alha we've had a lot of discussions in regards to fasting. We looked at invalidators, we looked at travelling and so forth. We even looked at you know being in Junaub. So question that I'd like to start off with is that if one stays at someone's house overnight and you know he becomes Junaub. He goes to sleep and he wakes up for so whole and now he's he's you know he's not dark at his Junaub but he's shy to ask for a shower. You know you're in a guest house sometimes it's difficult to say that look I have a shower, I need to do a hustle and stuff. It can be embarrassing. What if this person wants to do taya mum instead and you know he fasted for the day? Is his fast valid? He's fast of course would be valid with the condition of the fact that if he wants to do the hustle it's going to be very critical. It's too difficult embarrassing as you mentioned. You know let's say he's been given a place to sleep downstairs and the host he's sleeping upstairs with his wife and children. There are girls, there are boys and let's say the bathroom is next to the the spouse's bedroom for example. They can hear everything you know the shower and noise and so forth. If it's too critical in the situation he's allowed to do taya mum of course but of course afterwards he needs to wash for the Salah coming. Interesting. If a doctor advises that the patient should not fast can we take his word for it and I mean what does Ayatollah say Saadik Rouhani have to say about this? Yes his Eminence mentions that if the word of doctor was on the expected harm that there's a possible harm to affect this individual who is ill and he wants to fast and it will affect his health then it becomes mandatory on this patient not to fast and to break his fast. So vice versa the initial rule the first rule is to fast on every individual who is adolescence and adult and and but when it comes to the fact that if he's ill and he wants to fast it becomes mandatory not to fast. And of course if the doctor was an expert in this field and he wasn't giving for example the the wrong decision or advice then we I mean they can actually take his word that's fine. Ascent. Ascent. Shana we've got an email coming and it is Asalaamu Alaikum. Thank you so much Shekhar wonderful show as always. I am a Makalid of Ayatollah Say Saadik Rouhani and I'd like to ask if the fasting person was in a city and when Maghrib approached he broke his fast then on the same day he traveled to another city while the sun was not set yet. Is it mandatory upon him to refrain from eating and drinking? So it's a person that follows Ayatollah Say Saadik Rouhani they're asking that you know I was in one city and Maghrib came and I broke my fast and so forth and then later on on the same day I traveled to another city while the sun was not set yet. Is it mandatory upon me from eating and drinking? Well he would mention that it is not mandatory for this individual to refrain from eating and drinking because he already had a full day of fast and the place he was before he broke his fast in the Maghrib time and that's it he did his duty of fasting that day of the month of Ramadan but he would mention that as a mustahab precaution not wajib not compulsory not obligatory but mustahab to actually refrain from the eating and drinking but in other words the actual hukum is that it doesn't need to refrain. I see excellent. Shaykh what about you know the mustahab fast that we have so let's say that you know when one person agrees with another person for example it's white that you know we're going to you know do a recommended fast but during the day you know every one of them gets invited to go out to eat or drink and then so forth. You know does the reward of fasting include them both? What does Ayatollah Say Sistani have to ask about that? He would say that the inclusion of reward of fasting for the case mentioned is not proven to be right so it doesn't seem that he accepts this opinion because it seems to me that they've agreed that they're going to break the fasting somehow because you're you're going to fast and then you agree to break your fast so are you going to get the reward? Of course Allah gives the reward so we ask Allah always you know to give us the reward even though we try to find some loopholes in other words if it was the right word to use but we try always to gain Allah's mercy and rahmah and forgiveness at all times. We'll have another discussion on mustahab fasts because there are different rules in terms of when the fast is mustahab I went to open and so forth. Is it valid to make an answer on fasting in travel? Yes it is allowed for the one to do another while he's in trouble and to fast and thereby another of course the condition of the other and of course the way he must say the another in you know the the actual words and phrases and then comes another and he has to fulfill it basically. Sheikhna when it comes to fasting in Ramadan we are aware that they are invalidators but there are also some things you know which you know are haram but at the same time may not invalidate the fast and we we have these discussions all the time that even though you know it may not break the fast we still should refrain from them this is a time to train the soul and train the nafs so when it comes to looking at the opposite gender especially with the haram look does that avoid the fast? Well this individual has committed a sin although the the reason for fasting one of them is that we are refrain from the sins yes you know one of the reasons of our fast is to control self-restrain self-control self-building so when we end this holy month we have reduced our acts of sins and wrongdoings and so forth so such individual should ask Allah's forgiveness and repent to Allah and that he's not going to repeat this act again and of course the fast is valid I mean yes such sins within the fast would not break the fast they are not part of the muftalatu song but in all of in overall would he get the same tawab as the one who was pious preserved piety and pious in all of his fasting that's the issue that might the reward the reward might be reduced but in overall the fast is valid and excellent excellent shakma an individual hasn't fasted for many years in his youth due to the corrupt society that he was living in does he need to pay a kafaara for all those missed years that he's not participated in fasting if he knew that fasting is wajib on him and not permissible to break the fast uh in other words he's titled as negligent or muassar not qasar an ignorant ignorant he's got a different hukum but negligent muassar he knew but he didn't was careless in overall with these akam then he needs to basically do number one to do the qawa for every single day he missed number two to pay kafaara kafaara of deliberately eating and drinking of breaking break the fast which is to feed 60 paupers of maskeen with 750 grams of rice flour and raisins and so forth yet and he also needs to pay fidyeh for each day that he missed of the qawa of the past years of course because he delayed them for a couple of years so he needs to pay fidyeh as well for each day separate than the kafaara itself interesting interesting shakma is it permissible to immerse one's hair inside the water now we've had a discussion in regards to putting your head immersing one's head fully in water what about hair just the hair well the one is allowed to immerse part of his head let's say half of it inside the water let's say you want to wash part of your hair inside the water that's fun you can immerse it but not the entire what breaks the fast is the entire immerse of the head inside the water as i've said some ulama would not agree with this opinion and they would say that immersing the head would not break the fast so again you have to go back to the marja you follow to see if he allows to immerse your head inside the water or he wouldn't allow Shayna what about like deep-sea divers you know the scuba diving they have the whole outfits and everything like that so a divers emerges into the water while having you know swimwear covering the body including the head is does that still suffice as being immersed in water if the diver was wearing a helmet let's say a glass helmet so it was like a a big helmet like the motorcycles they were the bike riders a big helmet and covered yes then the one can use that type of helmet and it wouldn't invade the fast but just the outfits you mentioned no he can't actually immerse his head in this way Shayna the next question i think is very very common maybe of an issue that all of us feel and worry us at times is always that when we brush our teeth you know we brush our teeth when we're fast we wake up brush our teeth we rinse our mouth as well but there's sometimes we have the taste of the tooth the toothpaste left in our mouth you know we can taste it sometimes that taste even goes down would that render the fast and valid well the taste by itself would not invalidate the fast but they have to make sure that no bits of the paste would go inside the throat so without the bits that's fine with the bits is a problem okay make sense make sense Shayna one of the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi when the healthy practices was hijama and the Rasulullah would do hijama you know he's been recommended to do once a month i believe so is Ramadan different from that are we allowed to perform hijama while fasting in the month of Ramallah whatever is the cause of bleeding of the body in the month of Ramadan is makruh is discouraged this is disliked it's not haram but is it's not encouraged such as the one removes his teeth for example one of one of his tooth removing the tooth and bleeding teeth for example likewise these acts are makruh while the one is fasting so it's better to avoid it and to keep them to be done after the whole month of Ramadan i see can we use sunscreen on the body while fasting Shayna yes it's allowed yes and we're about drying your hair with henna while fasting is that okay same thing is allowed yes okay Shayna i've got a message from the whatsapp to bear with me and it's my final question for for today i have diabetes and weakness in my body and feel very tired when fasting is fasting mandatory in the month of Ramadan if fasting harms this individual there's a harm on this individual then he's allowed to break his fast that's fine however he needs to make it later as aba after the holy month of Ramadan so any expected harm they can actually break their fast because they're ill if they fast they would see side effects in the same day or let's say during the night so any side effects any harm any fear would allow the individual to break his fast and make it up later excellent Shayna thank you so much for this evening it's been one of the best episodes i'd say the questions are very very interesting and very very relevant as well thank you and thank you for your research and all the time and effort you put in even to look at different Maraj and what they say i know it's not easy you know both of the people the viewers brothers and sisters and myself thank you very much Shayna i'll accept all your your deeds and also your fasting as well and so all the viewers thank you for joining us on akram sos i do understand that it's difficult you know with fasting and also being in quarantine and so forth but you know it's it's moments like this and times like this that we need to benefit ourselves in order to learn the islamic fit while we have the free time and also what better time to learn than in ramadan where you know the thawab and adjo will be increased inshallah thank you so much for joining us inshallah i'll be back tomorrow in imam saying tv3 at 6 30 akram sos inshallah salamu alaikum rahmatullahi wabarakatuh