Traveling from Yemen to Sudan in Ramadan: There is a one-hour time difference. If the plane departs from here half an hour before iftar, we arrive at...
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The questioner : We are traveling from here in Ramadan, and there is a one-hour time difference. If the plane departs from here half an hour before iftar, for example, we arrive in Sudan, and the time for iftar is far off, such that the fasting person has fasted more than the length of the day. What is the ruling in this case? Please advise us, and may Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. The ruling in such a case is that you remain fasting until the sun sets, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:187] and the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): Sahih al-Bukhari 1954 He pointed to the east Sahih al-Bukhari 1954 and pointed to the west Sahih al-Bukhari 1954. Accordingly, it is obligatory for you to remain fasting until the sun sets, even if it is one hour, two hours, or more than the time in the place from which you departed. Likewise, if the situation were reversed, and you departed from Sudan heading toward the east, and the sun set before its time of setting in Sudan, then it is permissible for you to break your fast. This is a rule that everyone should know: as long as you are in a place that has night and day, with the setting and rising of the sun, it is obligatory to abstain from when the dawn becomes clear until the sun sets, even if the time is long.
However, if a person is on the airport tarmac and the sun sets and he breaks his fast, and then the plane takes off, and once it is in the air he sees the sun, then in this case he is not required to abstain, because he broke his fast after the sun had set and his day had ended.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. The ruling in such a case is that you remain fasting until the sun sets, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
So now, have relations with them and seek that which Allah has decreed for you. And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]. Then complete the fast until the sunset.
فَالآنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَابْتَغُوا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِWhen night falls from this side
إذا أقبل الليل من هاهناand the day vanishes from this side
وأدبر النهار من هاهناand the sun sets, then the fasting person should break his fast.
وغربت الشمس فقد أفطر الصائمHowever, if a person is on the airport tarmac and the sun sets and he breaks his fast, and then the plane takes off, and once it is in the air he sees the sun, then in this case he is not required to abstain, because he broke his fast after the sun had set and his day had ended.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.