Is ritual purity related to fasting, or only to prayer?

Question : After that, we move on to the letter from the questioner H.M. She asks: Is ritual purity related to fasting, or is it related only to prayer? I ask you to clarify this, Shaykh Muhammad.

Answer : Fasting has no connection to ritual purity. For this reason, it is permissible for a woman who becomes pure from menstruation before dawn to intend to fast, even if she does not perform the full ritual bath until after dawn has appeared. It is also permissible for men and women in a state of major ritual impurity to fast, even if they do not perform the full ritual bath until after dawn has appeared. Fasting has no connection to ritual purity because ritual purity is not a condition for it, according to scholarly consensus.