Sadaqatul fitr amount
Q: What is the sadaqatul fitr amount for this year in dollars?
Ramadhaan & Fasting
How to calculate midday for fasting purposes
Q: In bahisti zewar in the chapter of saum, under the section: the fasts of ramadaan (pg 310 English translation), there is a footnote (no 155),which says that when calculating the time of midday, then we should start counting from subah saadiq whilst our Salaah timetables suggest that we should count from sunrise and not from subah saadiq. Please explain.
Does the use of the following medical items break the fast?
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Asthmatic pump.
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Nabulizer.
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Drip.
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Vitamin injection.
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Dialysis which sugar patients use.
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Use of oxygen.
Missing a fast due to breastfeeding
Q: Today a woman has the option of feeding her infant with milk-based formula. Keeping that in mind, is she still allowed to miss her fasts if she breastfeeds her child and is weakened because of it?
Breaking a qadha fast
Q: If a women makes intention the night before to keep her qadha fast however during the day she gets her haidh so how many fasts will she have 2 make qadha for? Is it one or two?
Masturbating while fasting during Ramadhaan
Q: What is the ruling of a person that masturbated while fasting during Ramadhaan. Is it required to keep kadha of that fast?
Laylatul Qadr
Q: Some Ulama mention that layltul Qadr was experienced outside the last 10 nights of Ramadan. Is this proved by experience or Authentic narrations? If proven from Authentic narrations, Why is it only emphasized in the last ten nights of Ramadan? Is Laylatul Qadr on a specific night or it alternates every year? Is Laylatul Qadr specific to an individual or community on different nights or is it general for the entire mankind on that specific night?
Receiving the rewards for fasting on virtuous days
Q: I made a vow that if I commit a certain sin I will fast for 3 consecutive days. Unfortunately I fell in to this sin many times after so I have 27 fasts to keep. If I fast with the intention of these fasts on days that are virtuous to fast like the first 9 days of Zul HIjjah, 13 14 15 of each month will I receive the thawaab that comes with normally fasting on these days or will only my vow be carried out?
Fasting only on the 10th of Muharram
Q: Can one fast only on the 10th of Muharram without fasting a day before or a day after?
Niyah for Nafl Fast along with Qadha
Q: I have learnt that one cannot make the niyah of a nafl along with a qaza sawm but for the sawm whose days are specified (e.g. Monday, Thursday, Yawm-e-arafah, Muharram, 15 Shabaan but not that of shawwal any that's any 6 days in the month of Shawwal), one can do qaza and one would automatically get the reward of that specified day if one has intended it as the aim is to spend that day in sawm, so just like how if one spend the nights of Qadr in doing Qaza salaat, one would get the reward of spending the night in ibaadah as the aim is to fill these auspicious nights with ibaadat. Please explain with reference.