Traveling for leisure in Ramadan and completing the fast
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, in Ramadan, he says: We travel either for leisure or to the open countryside. Do we complete the fast or do we break it?
Answer:
O brothers, Ramadan is a great opportunity in the life of the Muslim. How can you waste it by going on leisure trips and journeys that are not necessary or that you do not need, but are only for leisure? Do not squander Ramadan. Leisure can be had after Ramadan; the rest of the year, eleven months, is available to you. But as for Ramadan, leave it for what it was prescribed for. Unless you need to travel, in which case there is no harm, even if you are exposed to[Al-Baqarah 2:184]. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, in Ramadan, he says: We travel either for leisure or to the open countryside. Do we complete the fast or do we break it?
Answer:
O brothers, Ramadan is a great opportunity in the life of the Muslim. How can you waste it by going on leisure trips and journeys that are not necessary or that you do not need, but are only for leisure? Do not squander Ramadan. Leisure can be had after Ramadan; the rest of the year, eleven months, is available to you. But as for Ramadan, leave it for what it was prescribed for. Unless you need to travel, in which case there is no harm, even if you are exposed to
on a journey [during them] - then an equal number of days [are to be made up]
عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ
Source
فتاوى على الهواء 27-03-1436هـ — af.org.sa (27:43)
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