If one makes a vow intending to prevent oneself from something, is an oath expiation required of him?
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Fatwa number ( 15846 )
Q: I swore an oath on myself several years ago not to do a specific thing, and that if I did this act, I would have to donate a large sum of money. This was to deter the self that commands evil. However, I broke that oath more than once and donated that sum of money. After that, I reaffirmed the oath with another similar one, with a very large sum. What is obligatory for me, and the last sum is beyond my capacity?
A: You are required to pay an oath expiation for what you mentioned, if your intention in the vow was to prevent yourself from doing something. The oath expiation is: feeding ten poor people, with each poor person receiving one and a half kilograms of the food eaten in your country, or clothing the ten, with each poor person receiving a garment, or freeing a believing slave, and you have the choice
between these matters. If you are unable to do any of them, then you fast for three days; because this vow follows the course of an oath. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:[At-Tahrim 66:2], and the release from oaths is the expiation in the manner we mentioned to you. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Q: I swore an oath on myself several years ago not to do a specific thing, and that if I did this act, I would have to donate a large sum of money. This was to deter the self that commands evil. However, I broke that oath more than once and donated that sum of money. After that, I reaffirmed the oath with another similar one, with a very large sum. What is obligatory for me, and the last sum is beyond my capacity?
A: You are required to pay an oath expiation for what you mentioned, if your intention in the vow was to prevent yourself from doing something. The oath expiation is: feeding ten poor people, with each poor person receiving one and a half kilograms of the food eaten in your country, or clothing the ten, with each poor person receiving a garment, or freeing a believing slave, and you have the choice
between these matters. If you are unable to do any of them, then you fast for three days; because this vow follows the course of an oath. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
Allah has already ordained for you [Muslims] the dissolution of your oaths
قَدْ فَرَضَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ تَحِلَّةَ أَيْمَانِكُمْ
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