Tag Archives: Fasting


Forget to make intention for fasting?

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

What do you do if you forget to make niyyah for fasting before  Fajr and don’t wake for suhur? Continue reading →

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Shafii: Kaffara/Fidya for missed fasts

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

There was one year where I did not fast the whole month without valid reason, may Allah forgive me Continue reading →

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A conditional vow made to God

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Shaykh Senad Agic

If a person makes a vow to God (not knowing it was wrong), that if you give me this, I’ll give this much Continue reading →

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Is kafarah required?

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Shaykh Senad Agic

asalamu ‘alaikum. This past ramadan we traveled the last friday to celebrate ‘Eid with sh Hisham. After the fajr prayer I slept, and half-awakened i mas**ed. I continued fasting, since I didn’t do it consciously. Continue reading →

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Fasting

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

1. My mother is a diabetic and heart patient who is in her 60s, she has always fasted and this year she has had a lot of pain in her body from various illnesses as noted. Please advise if she is able to fast, and if not what she needs to do. Continue reading →

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Flight attendants and Ramadan

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Shaykh Senad Agic

What is the islamic ruling on flight attendants who fly internationally daily and fasting Ramadan? I would feel awful not fasting a whole month because of my work. Is it permissible to feed 60 homeless people a day for that purpose? Continue reading →

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miswak

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Khalid Aboulela

Can you teach me the proper way to use miswak becose the shaykh lokman effendi said in his video sohbat that the prophet( saws ) use it other way that most of people use it. Continue reading →

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Fasting on Rabi al-Awwal ?

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

We see that such practice existed among the shites (the shiite scholar al-Mufid (d.413H) for example as quoted by Marion Holmez’s in “The Birth of The Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam”) Continue reading →

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Schizophrenia in Islam

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

I am a female who has been diagnose with schizophrenia since 2011. I want to know, do I have to pray my 5 times daily prayer? Do I have to fast? Continue reading →

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Mother of a disabled child and fasting in Ramadan

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Ustadh Abdul Shakur Hadi

I’ve a 2 year-old disabled child. I take care of her & drive her to therapy everyday. Plus I started a new oxygen treatment for her which I’ve to be part of. This treatment raises my metabolism. During the month of Ramadan… Continue reading →

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