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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Gathering to Break the Fast After Fasting on Mondays and Thursdays

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good. This person asks, saying: We are a group bound together by work in a mosque, and we fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and we break our fasts together. So someone came to us and said that what you are doing is a bid'ah (religious innovation).

Answer:
If your gathering to break the fast is because you are working in one place and the time for breaking the fast arrives, so you all break your fast together, then there is nothing wrong with that. But if you are scattered in your homes or in different places and you gather specifically for the sake of breaking the fast, then there is no doubt that this has no basis. It may lead to bid'ah (religious innovation), and people may think that this is prescribed when it is not prescribed.
So if this gathering is the result of you working in the place and the time for breaking the fast arrives while you are in the place, so you all break your fast, that is one thing. But if you intend to gather for the purpose of breaking the fast, then this is not prescribed and may lead to bid'ah (religious innovation) later, where people come to believe that this is something prescribed. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-33-حقوق الراعي والرعية|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:12:03)

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