Ramadhaan & Fasting

Q: Is it permissible to use things like lip ice, Vaseline on your lips when you are fasting?

Q: If a man ejaculates in the state of fast with the help of his thighs or a pillow or a bed etc but does not uses his hands, is his fast broken?

Q: I read on Islamiqa that a kaffara is only due on a broken fast, if the fast was broken due to sexual intercourse, there is no need for kaffara. If the fast was broken due to delebretly eating or drinking, only qadha is necessary. Is this right?

Q: I am a diabetic and insulin dependant. I am fasting and my sugar levels have dropped below 4. Is it permissible for me to break my fast or do I continue fasting? What is the punishment for breaking my fast?

Q: This morning before sehri I began vomitting. After then reading my niyyat for fasting I vomitted again a mouthful of liquid water and the again (but not a mouthful). Is my fast broken?

Q: I am 30 years old this year and its been only 3 years or so that I have started fasting, but I have not still kept those that I missed for menstruations. I would like to know what should I do? I am very guilty and feel very bad about it. I have made tauba not to miss fasts again. But what can I do about my past? Same about salaah?

Q:

1. If I fast and have a severe migraine with vomiting nausea dizziness, is the fast valid?
2. Too much coughing, fever and headache, low sugar, is it compulsory to fast?

Q: We live in a small northern town in Canada . We are fasting for 19 hours a day. This is causing undue hardship on us as the long days during summer are combined with a lack of sleep. Esha is at 12pm. We are concerned about dehydration and experience extreme exhaustion . Is there a fatwa which exempts such long hours of Fasting? Could we follow the fasting hours of Mecca?

Q: I am a lactating mother and feeding my child. My daughter is 1 year old. I heard that when mothers are feeding their children they are free from the Farz of roza (fast), is it true? If temporarily mothers are free then is there any Qaza of these rozas (fasts) after lactation or permanently lactating mothers are free?

Q: Here in Bokaap (Cape Town) in an area of about 2km there are 11 masaajid. So now will it suffice if someone sits for sunnat itikaaf in one of the 11 masajid, or is it necessary for someone to sit in each of the 11 masaajids?