Fasting one day and breaking the fast the next, and fasting on Friday and Saturday individually
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh! Allah is my witness that I love you for the sake of Allah. Shaykh! How do you reconcile the best of fasting, which is fasting one day and breaking the fast the next, with the statements of the scholars regarding the prohibition of fasting on Friday alone, and likewise on Saturday, where some of them said about fasting on those days that it is
Answer:
This is an isolated fast, my brother. It is an isolated fast. However, if he fasts one day and breaks the fast the next, and it happens to fall on a Friday or a Saturday, there is no harm in it. This is because he did not single out Friday or Saturday; rather, this is his habit of fasting one day and breaking the fast the next. So if his day of fasting happens to fall on a Saturday or a Friday, this is not disliked, because it is attached to other days. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh! Allah is my witness that I love you for the sake of Allah. Shaykh! How do you reconcile the best of fasting, which is fasting one day and breaking the fast the next, with the statements of the scholars regarding the prohibition of fasting on Friday alone, and likewise on Saturday, where some of them said about fasting on those days that it is
Answer:
This is an isolated fast, my brother. It is an isolated fast. However, if he fasts one day and breaks the fast the next, and it happens to fall on a Friday or a Saturday, there is no harm in it. This is because he did not single out Friday or Saturday; rather, this is his habit of fasting one day and breaking the fast the next. So if his day of fasting happens to fall on a Saturday or a Friday, this is not disliked, because it is attached to other days. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-17-الصيام أحكامه وفضائله|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:18:22)
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