Ramadhaan & Fasting

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) Zaid followed his faithful bedroom clock for many years and he used to complete eating his sehri at the last minute based on the time on this clock. He recently compared his clock with the BBC time and found it to be 3 minutes slow. Is he muqallaf of following this time and repeating his fasts considering the possibilty that the BBC or any other central bureau time may also be incorrect.

Q: When fasting, while driving in my car, I get the smell of sugar cane coming from outside the car on the road, does this break the fast?

Q: My mother was feeling weak so she did not fast on the tenth of Muharram. However, she fasted the following day, the eleventh of Muharram. Will she obtain the rewards and virtues of Aashura?

Q: How does fasting work when travelling by plane. If I have sehri in one place, do I break my fast at my destination according to their maghrib or according to where I left from?

Q: With the money for fitra, can you put it in any charity box or give it to any charity? Is it only for wheat or what? Please explain how to give it to a charity (not giving it yourself, but paying for it in cash to be distributed); I hope I am understood.

Q: Is it permissible for one to split the two fasts of Muharram by fasting on the 9th and 11th without fasting on the 10th?