Fasting and Breaking the Fast Collectively at Work
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: We work in the same institution, and we fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and we break our fasts together, but without any arrangement. Does this make our action a religious innovation (bid'ah)?
Answer:
No, it is not a bid'ah. If there is no arrangement, it is not known as a bid'ah. However, if you agree to do this, that you all fast together and break your fasts together in a collective manner, and pray the night prayer collectively, that is a bid'ah if you commit to it. But if it happens occasionally, or without any arrangement, there is no harm. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: We work in the same institution, and we fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and we break our fasts together, but without any arrangement. Does this make our action a religious innovation (bid'ah)?
Answer:
No, it is not a bid'ah. If there is no arrangement, it is not known as a bid'ah. However, if you agree to do this, that you all fast together and break your fasts together in a collective manner, and pray the night prayer collectively, that is a bid'ah if you commit to it. But if it happens occasionally, or without any arrangement, there is no harm. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 13-01-1435هـ — af.org.sa (52:25)
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