Is the intention for fasting Ramadan made at the beginning of the month or every night?

The questioner : He says: When the month of Ramadan enters, is the intention made at the beginning of the month or every night?

The Shaykh : The truth is that when some people talk about the intention, and what do you know about the intention? I do not know what the meaning of the intention is. When a person gets up in the last part of the night and eats and drinks, is that not an intention? The intention is not something one performs and counts for oneself; as soon as a person does the act, he has intended it, except for a madman who does not know what he is doing, or a person who is unconscious or sleeping. But if a sane person does the act by his own choice, then the mere doing of it is the intention, so there is no need for anything else to be done. Some scholars even say that if Allah had obligated us to do a work without an intention, it would have been an obligation that cannot be fulfilled. And it is true that if you were told: perform wudu' and do not intend it, pray and do not intend it, fast and do not intend it, and eat and do not intend it, you would not be able to do it. The intention is something very intense; as soon as a person gets up and eats and drinks, he has intended to fast. Yes.