The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

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.

Issue No. 1385- If a woman pure of ḥayḍ or nifās before the fajr adhān, comes short in performing ghusl, her fast will be void, as an obligatory precaution. However, if she does not come short for instance, if she waits for the public bath to open or waits for the water to get warm, and does not do ghusl until fajr adhān, if she performs tayammum, her fast will be valid.

Issue No. 1386- A woman in istiḥāḍah should do her ghusl according to the rules mentioned for istiḥāḍah, and her fast will be correct.

Issue No. 1387- A person who has touched a dead body, and ghusl has become obligatory on him/her, can perform fast without performing ghusl for touching a dead body. Similarly, the fast does not become void if the dead body is touched in the state of fasting..

Issue No. 1388- Introducing liquids into the rectum and colon (enema) will make the fast void even though it has been used inevitably and as a treatment. However, there is no harm in using suppository for treatment, and the obligatory precaution is to avoid the nutritional suppositories.

Issue No. 1390- If a person eats something at night that he knows he will vomit involuntarily during the day, the fast will not become void. However, the recommended precaution is that he should not do so, and if he does, he should [as a recommended precaution] offer the qaḍā of that fast.

Issue No. 1392- If small particles of food or an insect like a fly involuntarily enter the throat of a person who is fasting, and if it has gone so deep down the gullet that it cannot be thrown out, his fast will remain valid. However, if it is possible to take it out, he should do so and it will not harm the fast, but if he swallows it in this situation, his fast will be void.

Issue No. 1393- If a person who is fasting is certain that if he belches something will come out of his throat, he should not belch intentionally, but there is no harm if he is not certain about it. However, if as a result of belching involuntarily, something comes into his throat or mouth, he should throw it out, and if he intentionally swallows it, his fast will be void but there is no harm if it is swallowed involuntarily.

Issue No. 1394- If a person who is fasting inadvertently or involuntarily does one of the nine invalidators which were explained earlier, his fast would be in order. However, if a junub person sleeps and does not perform ghusl till the fajr adhān, his fast, on the same conditions explained earlier, will be void as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 1396- If something is forced down the throat of a person who is fasting or his head is immersed in the water by force, his fast will not become void. However, if he is compelled to break his fast, for example if he is told that if he does not take food, he would be subjected to financial or physical harm, and he himself eats something to prevent that harm, the fast becomes void.