Best food to break one's fast with
Q: What is the best thing to break one's fast with?
Ramadhaan & Fasting
Woman doubting whether haiz started while fasting
Q: If a girl was fasting and at the time of asr, she's confused and not sure if she saw slight redness and after maghrib she saw her haidh had come. So when must she take a ghusl if she gets it for 10 days? (Asr or Maghrib Time)
Will she have to make qadha of that fast?
Fasting person tasting the sweetness of sugar when filling the sugar container
Q: Whilst fasting, when filling sugar from its bag into a jar, I felt the sweetness of sugar in my throat. Did my fast break?
Fasting being given priority over nafl ibaadat
Q: I would like to fast and try and see how far I can make it. The problem is that when I tried fasting last year, the medications I take for epilepsy are much stronger without food so I end up waking up after 11 or 12 noon most of the time and then don't have much energy for tilawat, zikr, etc.
Should I give fidya and put my tilawat, zikr, duaa, etc. first or fast? For me it's a matter of nafl or fardh, which is more important, the fast or the ibaadah and tilawat?
Fast breaking if a woman gets her haidh in the latter part of the day
Q: If you get your period (haidh) during the latter part of the day (e.g. an hour before maghrib), does your fast break and is qadha necessary or is the fast accepted?
Fasting and making Eid according to the region you are in
Q: I live in one region and work at another. Most of the time it happens, that the first day of Ramadhan/Eid in both regions differs. Like, the region of my home has the first day of Ramadhan and Eid one day before the region of my work. I am always at my work region at the start of Ramadhan and for Eid I always go to my home region. By doing so I usually end up having one day less of Ramadhan (one less roza) 28 Days of Ramadhan instead of 29.
Please advise how should I proceed with this. Should I start Ramadhan with my home region even while I'm in my work region although all the other people are not having Ramadhan there? Or Should I fulfill that one day of Ramadhan after the Eid in my home region?
How to spend one's Ramadhaan
Q: How exactly should I spend my Ramadhaan? I really want to make a difference in myself and my life, but what should I do that will help with my character so I can improve in Ramadhaan and after Ramadhaan as well? Also, what other ibaadah can I perform besides nafl salaah?
Making fardh ghusal after sehri
Q: As the month of Ramadhaan approaches, I would like to ask the following:
1. If a person goes to sleep and upon waking up for sehri, he notices he is in need for a compulsory ghusal due to a dream he had. Can that person eat sehri, START HIS FAST and thereafter have a ghusal before fajr?
2. Or should he have a ghusal before sehri? (What if there is a fear of missing sehri?)
3. If a person does have a ghusal AFTER sehri before fajr, ONCE HE STARTED HIS FAST, will his fast be accepted/valid?
Gargling and cleaning one's nose before sehri ends and thereafter making ghusal
Q: Can a person gargle and make istinshaaq before sehri ends and thereafter make ghusal?
Qadha for fasts that were broken due to masturbating
Q:
1. Prior to 1 year earlier, I did not know that masturbation breaks the fast and I used to do it in the state of fasting. Do I still have to make qada even if I did not know it at that time?
2. If yes, how should I calculate how many fasts I should make qada for? I am not sure how many of my fasts were broken like this. How many qadas should I make if I did not know this for 5-6 years after becoming baligh?
3. Should I make qada for all the fasts for the past 5-6 years or is there a specific number I can keep to make it alright?
4. Am I obligated to keep all the qada fasts together or can I keep them once or twice a week?