The Ruling on Breaking the Fast and Intercourse in Ramadan, and the Menstruating Woman
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The questioner:
Traveling, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) fasted and the Muslims fasted. Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh:
If the hardship is removed, which is better for me? The fitrah is better. And if it becomes a hardship, it is confirmed by leaving it; fasting is disliked.
The questioner:
[UNTRANSLATED: man wa al-jima'] in Ramadan and [UNTRANSLATED: la al-wajib].
The Shaykh:
He owes no expiation unless he had intercourse, but if he intended to break the fast, the well-known opinion among scholars is that he owes making up the fast, making up only one day, and he owes no expiation unless he had intercourse, but he breaks the fast when he has intercourse with the intention of breaking the fast, and he makes it up.
The questioner:
Without the intention, it does not count.
The Shaykh:
Hmm? The intention to break the fast, yes, and he intended to break the fast, yes, and he intended to break the fast by eating or drinking or by intercourse,
The questioner:
May Allah guide you. Do you eat, drink, or hold back? During the day in Ramadan.
The Shaykh:
them.
The questioner:
A woman came to [UNTRANSLATED: al-hajj] in Ramadan, is it permissible for her to eat and drink or hold back from eating and drinking?
The Shaykh:
She holds back, she is menstruating.
The questioner:
I mean, on the basis that some of them are hesitant, I mean.
The Shaykh:
May Allah guide him to it.
The questioner:
I mean, sometimes.
The Shaykh:
Or drink, she has no fasting and no abstaining, the menstruating woman and the woman with post-natal bleeding eat and drink, she is not fasting and she has no right to fast,
The questioner:
No.
The Shaykh:
The hesitation, the hesitation is invalid, it has no basis.
The questioner:
If intercourse is repeated, I mean, does he owe only one expiation?
The Shaykh:
If it was in one day and he did not pay the expiation, it is one expiation, and if he had already paid the expiation, he pays a second one, and if it was in different days, each day has its own expiation,
Traveling, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) fasted and the Muslims fasted. Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh:
If the hardship is removed, which is better for me? The fitrah is better. And if it becomes a hardship, it is confirmed by leaving it; fasting is disliked.
The questioner:
[UNTRANSLATED: man wa al-jima'] in Ramadan and [UNTRANSLATED: la al-wajib].
The Shaykh:
He owes no expiation unless he had intercourse, but if he intended to break the fast, the well-known opinion among scholars is that he owes making up the fast, making up only one day, and he owes no expiation unless he had intercourse, but he breaks the fast when he has intercourse with the intention of breaking the fast, and he makes it up.
The questioner:
Without the intention, it does not count.
The Shaykh:
Hmm? The intention to break the fast, yes, and he intended to break the fast, yes, and he intended to break the fast by eating or drinking or by intercourse,
The questioner:
May Allah guide you. Do you eat, drink, or hold back? During the day in Ramadan.
The Shaykh:
them.
The questioner:
A woman came to [UNTRANSLATED: al-hajj] in Ramadan, is it permissible for her to eat and drink or hold back from eating and drinking?
The Shaykh:
She holds back, she is menstruating.
The questioner:
I mean, on the basis that some of them are hesitant, I mean.
The Shaykh:
May Allah guide him to it.
The questioner:
I mean, sometimes.
The Shaykh:
Or drink, she has no fasting and no abstaining, the menstruating woman and the woman with post-natal bleeding eat and drink, she is not fasting and she has no right to fast,
The questioner:
No.
The Shaykh:
The hesitation, the hesitation is invalid, it has no basis.
The questioner:
If intercourse is repeated, I mean, does he owe only one expiation?
The Shaykh:
If it was in one day and he did not pay the expiation, it is one expiation, and if he had already paid the expiation, he pays a second one, and if it was in different days, each day has its own expiation,
Source
شرح كتاب الصيام من بلوغ المرام، من الحديث الثالث عشر، إلى الحديث الثاني والعشرين — islamhouse.com (28:10)
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