Fasting

Q: Is fasting every Thursday right or is it a bidah?

Q: If one swallows a food particle stuck between one's teeth while fasting, will the fast break?

Q: During the month of Ramadhaan, once I had broken my fast through eating. What is the Shar'ee ruling in such a case?

Q: If a person commits the sin of masturbation during the fast of Ramadhaan, does kaffarah become wajib? If not, why is this so?

Q: If a person is fasting a qadha fast of Ramadhaan and breaks it intentionally, is the 60 days kaffarah due?

Q: Regarding kaffaarah fast. It says for the amount of fasts broken a person has to make kaffarah and qadha. So if a woman broke say for example seven fasts, must she do one kaffaarah (60days) plus 7 qadhas or just 6 days kaffarah and one qadha?

Q: If a person is doing dialysis while fasting, will his fast break and can he fast during the month of Ramadhaan if he has to go for dialysis?

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?