The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 1363- If a person forgets that he is fasting and does not place enough care, or if dust or any other similar thing enters his throat involuntarily, his fast does not become void.

Issue No. 1366- If a person immerses half of his head in the water once, and the other half secondly, his fast is valid. However, if a person immerses the entire head in water while leaving some hair out, his fast is void as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 1367- If a person is obliged to immerse his head in water in order to save a human being from drowning, his fast is void as an obligatory precaution. However, saving a human’s life is obligatory and one should perform the qaḍā of the broken fast, if he immerses his head in water.

Issue No. 1370- If a person forgets that he is fasting, and immerses his head in water with the intention of performing ghusl, both the fast and ghusl will be valid. However, if he knows that it is a specific obligatory fast [1] and intentionally does so, he should, as an obligatory precaution, offer the qaḍā of the fast and also perform ghusl again.

Issue No. 1372- Remaining in the state of janābah until the time of fajr adhān which makes fast void applies only to the fast of the month of Ramadan and its qaḍā fasts. It will not invalidate fasts other than these.

Issue No. 1373- If a junub person in the month of Ramadan forgets to perform ghusl, and remembers it after one day or more, he should offer qaḍā of the days on which he is certain that he was junub in. For example, if he does not know whether he was junub for three or four days, he should observe three qaḍā fasts; also, he is able to observe the qaḍā of the fourth day as a recommended precaution.

Issue No. 1374- If a person who does not have time for performing ghusl at night in the month of Ramadan, enters the state of janābah deliberately he/she should perform tayammum if he has time and his fast will be valid even though he has not abided by the precaution.

Issue No. 1376- If a junub person during a night in the month of Ramadan knows that if he goes to sleep he will not wake up until fajr, he should not sleep and if he sleeps and does not wake up, his fast is void as an obligatory precaution, and he should, as an obligatory precaution, perform qaḍā and offer the kaffāra. However, if there is a probability that he will be awake before fajr, he may sleep. However, if he wakes up for the second time, he should not go to sleep until he performs ghusl as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 1379- The sleep during which a person had a seminal discharge is not considered to be the first sleep. However, if he wakes up from that sleep and sleeps again, it will be considered as the first sleep.

Issue No. 1382- If a person wants to observe the qaḍā fast of the month of Ramadan and wakes up after the fajr adhān finding himself in the state of janābah, and he knows that he had a seminal discharge in sleep before the fajr adhān, as an obligatory precaution, he should observe the qaḍā during another day provided that the time for observing the qaḍā of the fasts is not short. However, if the time of the qaḍā of the fast is short, for instance, he has five qaḍā fasts to offer, and there are only five days left until the month of Ramadan, then he should observe the fast on the same day, and his fast is valid.

Issue No. 1383- If a woman becomes pure of her ḥayḍ or nifās before the fajr adhān, and has no time to do ghusl, she should perform tayammum, and her fast will be correct. However, if she has no time to do ghusl or to perform tayammum, she should do ghusl later and her fast will be valid.

Issue No. 1384- If a woman becomes pure of ḥayḍ or nifās after the fajr adhān, she cannot observe fast. Similarly, if she sees blood of ḥayḍ or nifās during the day, though just near the maghrib time.