The Intention to Break the Fast in Voluntary Fasting, Then Changing One’s Mind
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person intends to break his fast during a voluntary fast, and while on his way to the restaurant to eat, he changes his mind, is he considered fasting or has he broken his fast?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
If a person intends to break his fast during a voluntary fast, and while on his way to the restaurant he changes his mind, is he considered fasting or has he broken his fast?
The Shaykh:
He changes his mind, meaning.
The questioner:
He continues with the fast.
The Shaykh:
If he wants to continue, yes, as long as he has not eaten, he may do so; because voluntary fasting is more lenient than obligatory fasting. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a person intends to break his fast during a voluntary fast, and while on his way to the restaurant to eat, he changes his mind, is he considered fasting or has he broken his fast?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
If a person intends to break his fast during a voluntary fast, and while on his way to the restaurant he changes his mind, is he considered fasting or has he broken his fast?
The Shaykh:
He changes his mind, meaning.
The questioner:
He continues with the fast.
The Shaykh:
If he wants to continue, yes, as long as he has not eaten, he may do so; because voluntary fasting is more lenient than obligatory fasting. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 19-06-1438هـ — alfawzan.live (1:10:41)
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