Is it permissible to spread phrases like this: “Let us all start fasting the white days from today”?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that some people are passing around this phrase in mobile phone messages: “Perhaps we can all start fasting the white days from today.” What is the ruling on spreading and passing it along?
Answer:
This is not permissible, this is not permissible. This collective fasting is a bid'ah (religious innovation). Each person fasts as he pleases; he fasts the white days, or the beginning of the month, or the middle of the month, or the end of the month. The important thing is three days of every month. As for them agreeing to fast collectively and break their fast collectively, this is among the innovations for which Allah has not sent down any authority. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that some people are passing around this phrase in mobile phone messages: “Perhaps we can all start fasting the white days from today.” What is the ruling on spreading and passing it along?
Answer:
This is not permissible, this is not permissible. This collective fasting is a bid'ah (religious innovation). Each person fasts as he pleases; he fasts the white days, or the beginning of the month, or the middle of the month, or the end of the month. The important thing is three days of every month. As for them agreeing to fast collectively and break their fast collectively, this is among the innovations for which Allah has not sent down any authority. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [535 -858] هل يجوز نشر مثل هذه العبارات: لنبدأ صيام الأيام البيض جميعاً من هذا اليوم؟ — youtube.com
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