Roza / Fasting
Order and encouragement to fast
"O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was
prescribed for those before you in order that you might learn piety . . .
. The month of Ramadan is that wherein was revealed the Qur'an, as a
guidance to mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the
Criterion. So, whoever among you witnesses the month should fast." [Al-Qur'an 2:183, 185]
"Every deed of the Son of Adam is for himself, except fasting - it is for Me, and I shall reward it." [Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah]
"There is not any believer who remains hungry, and abstains from
the forbidden things, and does not wrongfully consume the wealth of
Muslims, except that Allah will feed him from the fruits of Heaven." [Musnad Abu Hanifah]
"Whoever fasts Ramadan with faith and expectation [of reward], his previous sins are forgiven him." [Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i]
Rewards of fasting in general
"Fasting is a shield." [Ahmad]
"There is not any servant who fasts a day in the path of Allah,
except that Allah will distance him from the Fire by a distance of
seventy years." [Bukhari, Muslim]
"Fasting the month of patience and three days of each month remove rancor of the heart." [Ahmad, Bazzar]
Warning against abandoning fasting in Ramadan
"Whoever breaks his fast in Ramadan without a [valid] concession
or illness, he cannot repay it, even if he were to fast the rest of his
life." [Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah]
Rules Related to Fasting
THE OBLIGATION OF FASTING
a) The time for fasting is from the rising of the second dawn until the setting of the sun.
b) Fasting is: abstention from eating, drinking and sexual intercourse by day with the intention.
THE INTENTION
THE INTENTION
The fasting is valid with an intention from the night, but if one did
not intend until the morning, the intention suffices him between [dawn]
and {the middle of the day}.
1. Things which invalidates fasting and requires full recompense
1.1 If someone intentionally does one of the following without any valid excuse(see 6 below)
a) Does not fast at all
b) Breaks fast by eating, drinking and sexual activities
c) Assuming that cupping has broken ones fast thus quit fasting for the day.
1.2 Expiation for the above is to
1.2 Expiation for the above is to
a) Fast unceasingly for two months (60 days), if one breaks fats during this one has to start anew.
b) If unable to do so, it is to feed 60 needy persons two full meal
c) If unable to do so, it is to free one slave.
1.3 Things that break fast and requires one to fast similar numbers of days in recompense
a) If something is entered into the body during the hours when one is
supposed to fast, irrelevant of how it entered into the body.(see 5)
- To eat something which is not food such as stone particle or smoking anything.
- When water enters stomach while gargling
- When one is fed by force even when one is sleeping or unconscious
- Inject medicine, place them on wounds which eventually gets in.
- Eating by mistake thinking it is still night or iftar time is due while it is not.
- Involuntary full mouth vomiting and subsequent swallowing of it or part of it.
- When one is force into sexual intercourse or when one is sleeping or unconscious
b) Fasting without intention
c) Breaking (iftar) fast without the intention of doing so.
d) Lustful kissing of ones spouse
e) Emission of semen due to touching, kissing, masturbation.
f) Intentional vomiting.
c) Breaking (iftar) fast without the intention of doing so.
d) Lustful kissing of ones spouse
e) Emission of semen due to touching, kissing, masturbation.
f) Intentional vomiting.
2. Offensive acts during fasting
a) Backbiting, slander
b) To lie or deceive
c) To use abusive language
d) Not having iftar
e) Taste a food without swallowing it, using toothpaste.
f) Gargling water due to thirsts or hot weather.
g) Wrapping oneself with wet clothes.
h) Throwing up intentionally
i) Weakening the body (e.g. strenuous sport)
j) Gathering saliva and swallowing it;
b) To lie or deceive
c) To use abusive language
d) Not having iftar
e) Taste a food without swallowing it, using toothpaste.
f) Gargling water due to thirsts or hot weather.
g) Wrapping oneself with wet clothes.
h) Throwing up intentionally
i) Weakening the body (e.g. strenuous sport)
j) Gathering saliva and swallowing it;
3. Days when fasting is forbidden
a) Day of Eid al Fitr (Eid of Ramadan)
b) During Eid al ADHa 10, 11, 12 and 13 of month of Dhul Hijjah
b) During Eid al ADHa 10, 11, 12 and 13 of month of Dhul Hijjah
4. Events when it is allowed to break the fast and fast later the similar number of days
a) If fasting aggravates health-condition
b) Snake biting
c) Thirsts due to newly developed disease
d) Genuine danger for a pregnant mother, or for her fetus.
e) Genuine fear for the life of a suckling infant
f) Reason to fear death
g) Menstruation
h) If one is a traveller
b) Snake biting
c) Thirsts due to newly developed disease
d) Genuine danger for a pregnant mother, or for her fetus.
e) Genuine fear for the life of a suckling infant
f) Reason to fear death
g) Menstruation
h) If one is a traveller
5. Things that do not break fast
a) Those things which would otherwise break fast does not do so when
one is unaware of the fact that one is fasting(complete forgetfulness of
fasting).
b) Entrance of insects (i.e mosquitos), smoke and dust from natural environment does not break fast.
c) Wet dream, swallowing ones own saliva when still in the mouth,
brushing teeth, smearing oil, ointment on unwounded body do not break
fast. or used antimony [in his eyes],
d) If one is overcome by vomiting, his fast is not broken.
d) If one is overcome by vomiting, his fast is not broken.
6. Etiquettes and desirable practices
- Preparing for the month.
- Bringing to mind the bounty of Allah.
- Purifying one's intention
- Pre-dawn meal (suhur) as late as safely possible.
- Not unnecessarily delaying the breakingof the fast.
- Performing salat al-Maghrib soon after breakign the fast, then returning to eat.
- Making du`a at the time of breaking the fast.
- Enabling others to break their fasts.
- Abstaining from all forbidden deeds.
- Maintaining a pleasant disposition.
- Abundant reciting of the Qur'an.
- Abundant charity.
- Performing tarawih prayers.
7. Miscellaneous
a) The intention of fasting can be made as late as just before noon,
if one forgets to do so during the previous night. If one passes noon
without making the intention ones fasting is invalid.(1.3b)
b) One should eat before the day breaks even when one is not hungry.
c) For a woman whenever during the day menstruation stops she should
be observing fasting even though it is not a fast for her. She should
fast if it happens just before morning and did not have enough time to
take shower and eat.
d) If a woman menstruates, she stops fasting and makes up [fasting for the days of menstruation].
e) Someone who lost consciousness in Ramadan does not make up the
day on which the loss of consciousness occurred, but he makes up that
which came after it.
f) If a traveller arrives, or a [menstruating] woman attains purity
with part of the day [remaining], they abstain [from those things which
invaliate fasting] for the rest of that day.
May Allah keep us on the Straight Path. Aameen
May Allah keep us on the Straight Path. Aameen
Pray as if it is your last Prayer
♥ "When you stand up to pray, pray as if it is your last prayer" ♥
MODERN SCIENCE AND ISLAM
ARABS WERE
ILLITERATE
The Holy Prophet (salla' llaahu'alaihi wa sallam)
did not go to any school. Arabia did not even have a Primary school run by
Arabs. The Arabs were proud to be illiterate. They claimed they were born to
wield swords and to wield the pen was
the job of the merchant class. His uncle and grandfather, who were both
uneducated, brought up the Prophet (Salla ‘llahu’ alaihi wa sallam. There
was no contact with scholars of the time. Yet, the message that he delivered
i.e. the Holy Quraan remains relevant and scientifically correct for all ages.
The question is where did he get all the wisdom. Was he a genius?
COSMIC
STUDY
When he was born, the Greco-Roman
civilisation had its influence in
the Arabian Peninsula. The cosmogony of Greco-Romans is that the earth
is flat and the sky is in the form of a canopy, studded with lamps. This is
a myth. On the other side of Arabia, there is Iran
and India, the two great seats of culture and civilisation. Both held the same view. China had the same
view. The Holy Prophet (salla' llaahu'alaihi wa sallam) did not come to
teach Physical Science or Astronomy. But you will find in the Qur’aan,
references to different Natural Phenomena to different Scientific problems. In
these references you will find the Qur’aan absolutely modern, anti classical
and hostile to the ancient thoughts of Mankind in that age. In connection with
Cosmogony, the Qur’aan says:
THE SUN
MOVES
In modern history of Astronomy, unto Kepler, nobody knew that the
sun moves. Until recently students of science were thought that, "the
earth moves and the sun is stationary." Then science found, very recently,
out the sun is moving constantly in a
Horizontal line.
The Qur’aan says this:Yasin
Sura
36 Verse 38
PRINCIPLE OF
PARITY
Modern physics also, has the "Principle of Parity"
The Atom is the Fundamental
particle of all matter. In 1925 modern physics said that an atom is composed of
a pair, male and female i.e. electron and proton. The Neutron is known as the
"Marriage Officer", as a joke in scientific circles.
Another fact was that
electrical current was unknown in those days. Today we know that the male is
positive and the female is negative in electricity.
EMBRYOLOGY
Dr.
Keith L. Moore is a
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada. He is a world-renowned scientist and a distinguished researcher in the
fields of anatomy and embryology; he has published more than 150 research
articles, chapters and books in this field. A Muslim
scholar, Abdul-Majeed Azzindani contacted Dr. Moore. He was asked to
participate in a three-year study of around twenty-five verses of the Qur’aan
and the Sunnah (sayings of Muhammad (Salla’llahu’alaihi wa sallam) which
speak about embryology, and to determine the their correspondence to modern scientific discoveries.
The Qur’aan and the Sunnah
of the Prophet Muhammad (Salla’llahu’alaihi wa sallam) provide a very detailed
description of the microscopic development of the human embryo from a mere
sperm drop up to the stage of a completely formed human being. It is well known
that microscopes were not developed until the sixteenth century AD, and even at
that were very crude in design.
Zacharias
Janssen is
credited with having invented the compound
microscope in about 1590. With
it, remarkable scientific discoveries were made in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Dutch naturalist Anthony van
Leeuwenhoek produced lenses
powerful enough to prove that many tiny creatures are not spontaneously
generated but come from eggs.
Before this period, theories
on human reproduction ran rampant. Some scientist believed that the menstrual
blood developed into the foetus.
Later on, a new theory was
developed wherein the sperm drop was popularly believed to contain a completely
developed miniature human (homunculus) which later grew to the size of a baby.
The science of embryology as we know
it today did not discover many of the
detailed aspects of human development
which are taken for granted today until only about thirty years ago, or 1973 to be precise.
Now we must ask the question:
where did Muhammad (Salla’llahu’alaihi
wa sallam) get such detailed knowledge of the microscopic
development of the human embryo in the 6th century AD without a microscope,
technical training, a laboratory of any kind, or even the ability to write his
own name? The only logical conclusion is that it came from exactly where he
claimed it did. From the one who
created mankind, God Almighty! Prof.
Moore has since given numerous lectures on the topic of embryology in the
Qur’aan. He is quoted in one of these lectures as saying:
“It is clear to me that
these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of
this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me
that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah.”
