What is better for a traveler on a plane: breaking the fast or fasting?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success! If a traveler is on a plane and the distance is short and the journey is comfortable, is it better to break the fast or to fast?
Answer:
The better option is the one that is easier for him. If fasting is easier for him, he fasts; if breaking the fast is easier, he breaks it. A traveler is burdened with hardship, even if he is fasting, meaning the disembarking, loading the luggage, waiting, and so on, involves hardship, especially if it is during the days of heat. So they are like those who are settled. The traveler, even if he is on a plane, is burdened with hardship. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success! If a traveler is on a plane and the distance is short and the journey is comfortable, is it better to break the fast or to fast?
Answer:
The better option is the one that is easier for him. If fasting is easier for him, he fasts; if breaking the fast is easier, he breaks it. A traveler is burdened with hardship, even if he is fasting, meaning the disembarking, loading the luggage, waiting, and so on, involves hardship, especially if it is during the days of heat. So they are like those who are settled. The traveler, even if he is on a plane, is burdened with hardship. Yes.
Source
شرح زاد المستقنع [34] — alfawzan.live (23:03)
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