The traveler breaking his fast in a car and making up the days
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The questioner:
The one who is traveling in a car, for example, on a road like this, or something better than the traveler’s situation.
The Shaykh:
We prefer breaking the fast.
The questioner:
Yes, he is a traveler to Egypt, yes.
The Shaykh:
Unless it is difficult for him, in which case breaking the fast is better.
The questioner:
Staying is better.
The Shaykh:
Breaking the fast is better in all cases, but if the heat becomes intense, it becomes more emphasized for him to break the fast, and he should not remain in the heat.
The questioner:
So, do you have to pay an expiation, or do you not?
The Shaykh:
No, because we do not know.
The questioner:
Nobel.
The Shaykh:
He says:Sahih al-Bukhari 1946 especially when the situation becomes severe.
The questioner:
I mean, when he arrives in a town, for example, the residents there insist on fasting.
Another questioner:
Meaning, he arrived in the heat during Dhuhr or 'Asr, or at any time.
The Shaykh:
In his home country. In his home country, he continues.
Another questioner:
He continues with the same day.
The Shaykh:
He drives and drives, and makes up the fasts.
Another questioner:
He counts the days, which are? The period.
The Shaykh:
In which he makes them up, yes,[Al-Baqarah 2:185] He says in it, Allah the Exalted and Majestic
The one who is traveling in a car, for example, on a road like this, or something better than the traveler’s situation.
The Shaykh:
We prefer breaking the fast.
The questioner:
Yes, he is a traveler to Egypt, yes.
The Shaykh:
Unless it is difficult for him, in which case breaking the fast is better.
The questioner:
Staying is better.
The Shaykh:
Breaking the fast is better in all cases, but if the heat becomes intense, it becomes more emphasized for him to break the fast, and he should not remain in the heat.
The questioner:
So, do you have to pay an expiation, or do you not?
The Shaykh:
No, because we do not know.
The questioner:
Nobel.
The Shaykh:
He says:
It is not righteousness that you fast on a journey.
ليس من البر الصوم في السفرThe questioner:
I mean, when he arrives in a town, for example, the residents there insist on fasting.
Another questioner:
Meaning, he arrived in the heat during Dhuhr or 'Asr, or at any time.
The Shaykh:
In his home country. In his home country, he continues.
Another questioner:
He continues with the same day.
The Shaykh:
He drives and drives, and makes up the fasts.
Another questioner:
He counts the days, which are? The period.
The Shaykh:
In which he makes them up, yes,
and whoever is ill or on a journey - then an equal number of
وَمَن كَانَ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ
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