The Ruling on the Collective Breaking of the Fast by Fasting People

Question:
The questioner says: We are young men, and Allah has granted us the ability to fast one day and break the fast one day. Our breaking of the fast is collective, without compelling anyone, and the food for breaking the fast is shared so that we may earn the reward of one another. Is this permissible? And if it is not permissible, what is the reason?

Answer:
This is an innovation. The collective breaking of the fast, the collective fasting, and the collective standing in night prayer, as some young men do, all of this is an innovation with no basis. So each person breaks his fast in his place and in his home, except if one person provides a meal for the fasting people and you attend and break the fast with him, and he is a doer of good among the doers of good who prepares a meal for breaking the fast, then there is no harm in that. But if you intentionally make it collective, then it has no basis. Yes.