The ruling on breaking the voluntary fast of a fasting person in the presence of guests and informing them of the fast

Question:
May Allah bless you. This is another question from the Awraba region. He says: May Allah reward you. If I am fasting a voluntary fast and guests come to me, and I serve them coffee, fruit, and the like, is it better for me to complete my fast or to eat with them? And should I inform them that I am fasting?

Answer:
Yes. If they become uncomfortable or have questions if you do not eat with them, and they are not at ease unless you eat with them, then you break your fast and eat with them, because there is no obligation to continue a voluntary fast. However, if they are not affected by your not eating with them, then you have no need to break your fast, and your fasting is better. Completing the fast is better, because there is no need to break it.
As for informing them, if you inform them in order to remove their surprise at your not eating with them, to remove their surprise, then there is no harm in that. Yes. A person is fasting in order to remove what is in him, just as if someone insults him or curses him while he is fasting, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Let him say, "I am fasting," meaning, I will not respond to you because I am fasting. Yes.