Fasting

Q: Is it true that during fasting if you feel a piece of food stuck in your teeth, then you can swallow it and it won't break your fast? 

Q: Someone is doing kafaarah for ramadan fast. She is on her fifteenth fast. However when she was on her fifth fast she had broken her fast two minutes before iftaari but she carried on doing her kafaarah. What is the conclusion? Will her kafaraah start again from after that day or does she completely have to start all over again?

Q: Does smelling/inhaling Food/odor/smoke break one's fast?

1. Does smelling food break fasting? Accidently remembering I am fasting (and not remembering I am fasting)

2. Deliberately remembering I am fasting (and not remembering I am fasting)

3. Does smelling odor (perfume, smell of someone’s body –like baby or even to check if someone’s sweat or not, odor of shampoo, creams, green tea, coffee etc, cigarette smoke (or any kind of smoke?) any kind of odor) break fasting accidently or deliberately?

4. My manager has a special perfume in his room for having good odor. I have to be there while a cleaning lady cleans the room. Does it break my fast if I have to be there or enter the room during a day?

5. If my family uses perfume and all room smells, do I have to leave the room or can stay, sometimes i sleep after work and they use perfume and all room smells, do i have to leave the room in the middle of a nap? The same about cooking food, do I have to leave the kitchen or a room where smells come to?

6. Sometimes in the middle of a sweet nap I feel cigarette smoke in our room that is coming from a café below our apartment, do I have to wake up and leave the room in this case?

6. What if I am in a situation that someone smokes near me but I can’t leave the place is my fast void then? Can I breathe by mouth blocking my nose or what must I do?

7. Is there something else close to topic ‘’food, odor, smoke’’ that breaks ones fast?

Q: I have some questions about fasting. Could you please answer them when you have time Insha Allah?

1. During Ramadan, is it enough to make intention to fast for the whole month or it must be done for every day?

2. If it must be done for each day, when must be the intention done? Please don’t use difficult words that I won’t understand, could you please say from magrib till fajr, etc, as I find it difficult to understand the explanation other alims gave on some sites I read. Could you please give time frame for intentions for Ramadan, for kazas of Ramadan, for fasting 3 days of breaking an oath and for nafila fasting every Monday, Thursday and 13, 14, 15 of each month – is the time frame of intentions the same for all these fastings?

3. What if one forgot to make intention during the prescribed time, what must he do, fast anyway and then make kaza, kafara etc?

4. What if one is fasting his Ramadan kazas after the next Ramadan is finished only, what is the time frame for the intentions then, the same as normal Ramadan kazas?

5. What if I fasted one (or more) day and then realized my ghusl (I speak only of ghusl after menstruation, not after wet dream, etc) wasn’t correct, is my fast still valid in shaa Allah?

6. If I miscounted end of my period and made ghusl too early, but started fasting after day 10 of period (as max can be 10 days) is my fast still valid or not in shaa Allah?

7. if it is not allowed to insert cotton balls inside during fast when I have discharges, does it mean I have to be checking with a mirror every time if they are there and find that moment when they stop for a while or the best would be just make salah close to the end of its time even if then discharges are flowing?

Q:

1) When we are fasting, if oily water goes inside the ear when we are taking a bath, will our fast break and should we keep qadha fast?

2) When we are fasting if soap water goes inside the ear when we are taking a bath will our fast break and should we keep khaza fast?

3) When we are fasting how to prevent soap water, oily water, soap and oily water from going inside ear when we are taking bath will our fast break and should we keep qadha fast?

Q: I have some questions about fasting. Could you please answer them when you have time in shaa Allah? Water drops/discharges/intentions

1. If you wake up during fasting having a wet dream, does it break you fast?

2. If you accidentally (remembering you are fasting or not remembering) got a drop or two of water in your throat does it break your fast? Does number of drops matter, one, two, etc?

3. If a drop or two entered your ear during ghusl accidentally (remembering about fasting or not) does it break your fast? Does amount of drops matter, one, two, etc?

4. During fasting is it allowed to make only fard ghusl: washing private parts, mouth, nose (not deep), and then 3 times head, 3 times right part of your body (by left hand), 3 times left part of your body (by right hand)? How important it is to make sure that all skin gets wet during it, I mean from neck till feet, underarm, etc or pouring water 3 times is just symbolic and no need to make sure you all get wet during the process and then we can just wash ourselves as we normally do, using shampoo, soap etc? Is it ok the way I described?

5. if I didn’t repay my kazas for current Ramadan and do it only after next Ramadan, do I have to pay some money for each day? Is the ruling the same if I wasn’t in time due to something that doesn’t depend on me or due to me delaying it deliberately?

Q: Does swallowing mouth saliva break ones fast?

1. Accidently remembering I am fasting (and not remembering I am fasting)

2. Deliberately remembering I am fasting (and not remembering I am fasting)

3. You are in a situation you can’t spit it out, but if you swallow it you know you will be having thoughts that it will satisfy your thirst even if you don’t want to satisfy it. What must you do? Ignore these thoughts? Situations are: 1.you are outside around people, 2. you are very tired and you are in your bed trying to sleep, 3. When we cry during dua we have a lot of saliva, swallowing it makes fast void or not? 4. If we have a lot of saliva but we are outside around people?

Q: Does nose congestion (snot) break ones fast?

1. Accidently remembering I am fasting (and not remembering I am fasting)

2. Deliberately remembering I am fasting (and not remembering I am fasting) 3. You are in a situation you can’t spit it out, but if you swallow it you know you will be having thoughts that it will satisfy your thirst even if you don’t want to satisfy it. What must you do? Ignore these thoughts? Situations are: 1. You are outside around people, 2. you are very tired and you are in your bed trying to sleep,

3. When we cry during dua we have a lot of saliva, swallowing it makes fast void or not?

4. If we have a lot of saliva but we are outside around people?

4. When you are having them a lot during salah (you emptied your nose before salah but during salah still have a lot) and it’s difficult to go on praying, you must either stop salah or swallow it, what to do in such cases?

5. Does moisture that comes directly from the brain into your throat (not from the nose) break ones fast?

6. Sometimes I find myself in a situation when the nose congestion is already out of your nose and you can only swallow it, you cant spit it out either because you are in metro lets say, or because physically its already in a passage that you can only swallow it. Does swallowing it break fasting in such cases?

Q:

1) When we are fasting if we swallow sputum and phlegm will our fast break and should we keep khaza fast?

2) When we are fasting if we bring sputum and phlegm to our mouth with our control and if we swallow it with our control will our fast break and should we keep khaza fast?

3) When we are fasting if we swallow sputum and phlegm with our control will our fast break and should we keep khaza fast?

Q:

1) Kindly explain why Shari'at would allow the aid of spectacles to sight the moon but not the aid of a stronger medium like a pair of binoculars?

2) Kindly explain why the sighting of the moon from the Mount Everest at 8.8 km above sea level would be acceptable but not from an aircraft flying at a lower altitude of 5 km above sea level?