If one chooses fasting as the expiation for zihar, is intercourse forbidden until it is completed?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: In the saying of Allah the Exalted,[Al-Mujadila 58:3], does this mean that he does not approach his wife except after completing the expiation, if he chooses fasting, for example, or is it sufficient with just the intention or the beginning of the fast?
The Shaykh:
I mean, if the speech has no effect and nothing, repeat the question.
The questioner:
He says: Does this mean that he does not approach his wife except after completing the expiation, if he chooses fasting, for example?
The Shaykh:
Yes, before he touches her,[Al-Mujadila 58:4], he does not have intercourse with his wife except after fasting the two consecutive months. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: In the saying of Allah the Exalted,
before they touch one another
مِّن قَبْلِ أَن يَتَمَاسَّاThe Shaykh:
I mean, if the speech has no effect and nothing, repeat the question.
The questioner:
He says: Does this mean that he does not approach his wife except after completing the expiation, if he chooses fasting, for example?
The Shaykh:
Yes, before he touches her,
a fast for two months consecutively before they touch one another
فَصِيَامُ شَهْرَيْنِ مُتَتَابِعَيْنِ مِن قَبْلِ أَن يَتَمَاسَّا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1283- 4717] من اختار الصوم في كفارة الظهار فهل يحرم عليه الجماع حتى ينتهي؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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