Fasting

Fasting is from the pillars of Islam

Audios in English contain reading of the book “Fatwas of Ramadan on Fasting, Night Prayer, I’tikaf, and Zakat al-Fitr,” in which Sh. Ashraf Abdul-Maqsoud collected some fatwas of our scholars such as Sh. Ibn Taymeyya, Sh. Abu Butain, Sh. Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al Ash-Sheikh, Sh. As-Saadi, Sh. Ibn Baz, Sh. Ibn Uthaymeen, Sh. Saleh Al-Fawzan, and Sh. Ibn Jibreen about the month of Ramadan, its rules, etiquette, night prayer, i’tikaaf, and zakat al-Fitr.

A book in English which is considered a short reference written by Sh. Muhammad Jamil Zeno that includes all matters related to fasting and the blessed month of Ramadan.

An article in Kurdish shows that all verses of fasting are mentioned in one Quranic chapter, Surat Al-Baqarah. A Muslim has to know about their meanings and rulings through more than one book of Quranic interpretation to have deep knowledge about them.

A brief article in English shows the status of fasting in Islam, its most important rules, and virtues contained in the Noble Quran and the Prophetic Sunnah.

An article in German mentions the most important topics of fasting that a Muslim should know to perform this worship in its right way.

Question: During the fast is it permissable to say I love u to a husband, My husband asked me to say it during fast and I said to him that it is not permissable, he said it is allowed?

A question:What is the ruling of taking blood from a person fasting either a small amount or large amount?

A question:If a man was sitting and thinking (about intercourse), then he went to sleep and ejaculated, whilst he was fasting during the day in Ramadaan, does that invalidate his fast, and does he have to make it up?

A question:Does vaccination invalidate fasting?

A question:Is it permissible to depend on astronomical calculationsin starting and ending the fast?

A question:The doctor advised me to use suppository to reduce the intensity of the headache,is this nullifies fasting?

About rulings of itikaf(seclusion in the mosque for the purpose of worshipping),the manner of the itikaf of the prophet peace be upon him and the conditions at which it is allowed for the person performing itikaf to go out of the place he is secluding in.

Allah ordained fasting for the person to be accustomed to the life of piety and righteousness since the person abandons his food,drink and desire in the morning of Ramadaan and also abandons giving false statements and working according them.Being patient when insulted,secluding in the mosque in the last ten days of Ramadaan and giving charity to the poor make the person used to being adhered to the orders of Allah as Allah Almighty said:"O you who have believed, prescribed for you is the Fast, as it was prescribed for (the ones) who were before you, that possibly you would be pious.’’

Is using asthma spray breaks the fast of the faster in the morning of Ramadaan for those suffering from problems in respiration?

Simplified explanation of the pillars of fasting quoted and translated from the book of ’’The Pillars Of Islam And Faith’’

Brief information about fasting,its definitions,rulings and virtues.

An article in English in which Sh. Ibn Utheimeen handles some points about fasting, night prayer in Ramadan, and zakah.