Masaail (Hanafi)
Recovering from Sickness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou are recovering from a sickness, and you are still feeling weak. You have a strong feeling that if you
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Tag: Saum/Fasting
Masaail (Hanafi)
Breaking the Fast on Inadequate Grounds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you broke your fast without a Deeni-conscious physician telling you to do so, or merely assuming that the fast
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Masaail (Hanafi)
Your Experience
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf the physician did not tell you not to fast, however, you do have experience that fasting in your case
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Masaail (Hanafi)
A Non-Muslim Physician’s Word in Omitting the Fast
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf the hakeem or doctor is a non-Muslim, or he is not particular about the Shariah then his word is
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Masaail (Hanafi)
Foregoing the Fast in Sickness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you are sick and fasting will harm you – you fear that your sickness will deteriorate by fasting, or
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Masaail (Hanafi)
Not Permissible to Break Fast when in Doubt
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs long as you are in a doubt as to whether the sun has set or not it is not
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Fadhaail/Virtues and Rewards
Reasons for Fasting being Prescribed for a Person
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe demand of natural law is that a person’s intellect should perpetually remain in control and overwhelming over his nafs
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Masaail (Hanafi)
What to Break the Fast With
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is best to break the fast with dates. Or one can break the fast with something sweet. If one
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Masaail (Hanafi)
The Clock Could Be Wrong
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo not just look at the watch or clock and be satisfied. The clock could be fast. As long as
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Masaail (Hanafi)
Not Sure if the Sun Has Set on a Cloudy Day
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the sky is overcast and it is not known whether the sun has set or not, then break the
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Masaail (Hanafi)
Immediately Breaking the Fast
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is Mustahab to break the fast immediately upon being sure of the sun having set. It is Makrooh to
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