What is the ruling on the fasting of one who engages in much idle talk and frivolity?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. He says: Some people may fast in Ramadan, but they watch television, satellite dishes, and other devices of amusement. What is the ruling on the fasting of these people?
Answer:
The ruling is that his fast is deficient; it is a deficient fast. It may even be a fast with no reward. A person may fast, labor, and yet have no reward. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 5:103 So he has no reward, the one who fasts but does not restrain his sight from what is forbidden, nor his hearing from what is forbidden, nor his limbs from what is forbidden, nor his tongue from what is forbidden. These things diminish his fast until perhaps no reward remains for him. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. He says: Some people may fast in Ramadan, but they watch television, satellite dishes, and other devices of amusement. What is the ruling on the fasting of these people?
Answer:
The ruling is that his fast is deficient; it is a deficient fast. It may even be a fast with no reward. A person may fast, labor, and yet have no reward. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Many are the fasters whose share from their fasting is only hunger and thirst, and many are the standers in prayer whose share from their standing is only wakefulness.
رُبَّ صَائِمٍ حَظُّهُ مِنْ صِيَامِهِ الْجُوعُ وَالْعَطَشُ وَرُبَّ قَائِمٍ حَظُّهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ السَّهَرُ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم صوم من يكثر لهوه ولغوه؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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