If a woman is obligated to fast two consecutive months, does the interruption of her fasting due to menstruation affect the condition of consecutiveness?
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The questioner : If a woman is obligated to fast two consecutive months, does the interruption of her fasting due to a valid legal excuse affect the condition of consecutiveness?
The Shaykh : It does not affect the condition of consecutiveness, because it is breaking the fast for a valid legal excuse. We say the same for others: if a person is obligated to fast two consecutive months and breaks the consecutiveness due to a valid legal excuse or a physical excuse, the consecutiveness is not broken. For example, if a person is obligated to fast two consecutive months and travels during them, his travel, if he breaks his fast during it, does not break the consecutiveness, because it is a permitted breaking of the fast. Likewise, if it is interrupted by a valid legal excuse, such as if during these two months he encounters Ramadan, or the days of 'Id al-Adha, or the days of Tashriq, or the like, it does not break the consecutiveness.
The questioner : He must, meaning immediately or immediately after this excuse ends, resume his fasting.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Yes, may Allah bless you.
Dear brothers, in today's session, we reviewed the letters of our brothers Zayd Gharim Allah al-Shahri from al-Namasiyyah, and the brother Sudanese, a resident of the Kingdom, who did not mention his name in his letter, and the listener H M 'A from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, and the listener Umm 'Awf from Iraq, Baghdad, and the listener 'Abd al-Salam 'Ajja from the Republic of Djibouti.
The Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-'Uthaymeen, a professor at the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in al-Qasim, and the imam and khatib of the Grand Mosque in Unayzah, answered the questions of these brothers. So, thank you for your answer, and thank you for your good follow-up. Until we meet again, and may peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings.
The Shaykh : It does not affect the condition of consecutiveness, because it is breaking the fast for a valid legal excuse. We say the same for others: if a person is obligated to fast two consecutive months and breaks the consecutiveness due to a valid legal excuse or a physical excuse, the consecutiveness is not broken. For example, if a person is obligated to fast two consecutive months and travels during them, his travel, if he breaks his fast during it, does not break the consecutiveness, because it is a permitted breaking of the fast. Likewise, if it is interrupted by a valid legal excuse, such as if during these two months he encounters Ramadan, or the days of 'Id al-Adha, or the days of Tashriq, or the like, it does not break the consecutiveness.
The questioner : He must, meaning immediately or immediately after this excuse ends, resume his fasting.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Yes, may Allah bless you.
Dear brothers, in today's session, we reviewed the letters of our brothers Zayd Gharim Allah al-Shahri from al-Namasiyyah, and the brother Sudanese, a resident of the Kingdom, who did not mention his name in his letter, and the listener H M 'A from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, and the listener Umm 'Awf from Iraq, Baghdad, and the listener 'Abd al-Salam 'Ajja from the Republic of Djibouti.
The Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-'Uthaymeen, a professor at the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in al-Qasim, and the imam and khatib of the Grand Mosque in Unayzah, answered the questions of these brothers. So, thank you for your answer, and thank you for your good follow-up. Until we meet again, and may peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings.