Breaking the fast of the pilot who took off before sunset
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The questioner:
A shaykh, one of the brother pilots, spoke to me personally. He says: I was assigned a flight to the Arab Maghreb in Ramadan. I took off from Riyadh a quarter of an hour before sunset. I had dates and coffee with me. When I went up, the sun was above and the night was below. I wanted to get permission from the tower to descend and break my fast, then ascend. He says: If they gave me permission to descend into the darkness, do I have a religious basis to break my fast?
The Shaykh:
By Allah, it appears that if he…
Another questioner:
Pillars. In the presence of Shaykh Sayyid.
The Shaykh:
If he is in a place where the sun has set, he breaks his fast.
Another questioner:
He says to him: "Below, O Shaykh, I tell him: below. The one below him sees the sun right now."
The Shaykh:
No, no, no, another question.
Another questioner:
Meaning, it adds three hours to his fast.
The Shaykh:
I, I, I.
Another questioner:
Meaning, Shaykh, if he descends and breaks his fast, then takes off a second time. Does he continue fasting?
The Shaykh:
There is no doubt that he has entered a land where the sun has set.
Another questioner:
The personal whistle.
The Shaykh:
If he breaks his fast at sunset, then the plane takes off and the sun appears, his fast is completed,
Another questioner:
Leave the second one alone.
The Shaykh:
His fast is completed.
Another questioner:
But sometimes it follows the sun.
The Shaykh:
It may follow it, and he is still in sunlight.
Another questioner:
He is still in the daylight of the sun.
The Shaykh:
This is if he took off before it set.
Another questioner:
He takes off a quarter of an hour before sunset.
The Shaykh:
He faces the body of the earth until the sun sets.
Another questioner:
Following the sun, it can sometimes be four hours. Or five hours.
The Shaykh:
Until it sets.
Another questioner:
Until it sets, it is required, but if he broke his fast, we said that he…
The Shaykh:
So if he is at the airport and the sun has set, then the plane takes off and the sun appears, he does not look at that.
Another questioner:
But if he broke his fast, may you live long, on the pretext of travel, that it is the dispensation of travel.
The Shaykh:
This is not to be feared.
Another questioner:
Let him make it up.
The Shaykh:
Travel requires making it up.
Another questioner:
He makes up that day.
A shaykh, one of the brother pilots, spoke to me personally. He says: I was assigned a flight to the Arab Maghreb in Ramadan. I took off from Riyadh a quarter of an hour before sunset. I had dates and coffee with me. When I went up, the sun was above and the night was below. I wanted to get permission from the tower to descend and break my fast, then ascend. He says: If they gave me permission to descend into the darkness, do I have a religious basis to break my fast?
The Shaykh:
By Allah, it appears that if he…
Another questioner:
Pillars. In the presence of Shaykh Sayyid.
The Shaykh:
If he is in a place where the sun has set, he breaks his fast.
Another questioner:
He says to him: "Below, O Shaykh, I tell him: below. The one below him sees the sun right now."
The Shaykh:
No, no, no, another question.
Another questioner:
Meaning, it adds three hours to his fast.
The Shaykh:
I, I, I.
Another questioner:
Meaning, Shaykh, if he descends and breaks his fast, then takes off a second time. Does he continue fasting?
The Shaykh:
There is no doubt that he has entered a land where the sun has set.
Another questioner:
The personal whistle.
The Shaykh:
If he breaks his fast at sunset, then the plane takes off and the sun appears, his fast is completed,
Another questioner:
Leave the second one alone.
The Shaykh:
His fast is completed.
Another questioner:
But sometimes it follows the sun.
The Shaykh:
It may follow it, and he is still in sunlight.
Another questioner:
He is still in the daylight of the sun.
The Shaykh:
This is if he took off before it set.
Another questioner:
He takes off a quarter of an hour before sunset.
The Shaykh:
He faces the body of the earth until the sun sets.
Another questioner:
Following the sun, it can sometimes be four hours. Or five hours.
The Shaykh:
Until it sets.
Another questioner:
Until it sets, it is required, but if he broke his fast, we said that he…
The Shaykh:
So if he is at the airport and the sun has set, then the plane takes off and the sun appears, he does not look at that.
Another questioner:
But if he broke his fast, may you live long, on the pretext of travel, that it is the dispensation of travel.
The Shaykh:
This is not to be feared.
Another questioner:
Let him make it up.
The Shaykh:
Travel requires making it up.
Another questioner:
He makes up that day.
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء مع إخوة في الله - ابن باز - ٤ — archive.org (46:33)
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