The Effect of Breaking the Fast While Traveling on the Consecutiveness of the Fasting for the Expiation of Zihar
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man was required to fast two consecutive months due to zihar, after he had taken a fatwa. He says that after one month, he traveled without need and broke his fast for the days of his travel. Does this break the consecutiveness, or does he continue from where he left off?
Answer:
No, no. If he breaks his fast for a valid legal excuse, it does not break the consecutiveness. So the breaking of the fast is obligatory. And the obligatory fast is like Ramadan; if something that breaks the consecutiveness occurs during the fasting for the expiation, [it does not break it], yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man was required to fast two consecutive months due to zihar, after he had taken a fatwa. He says that after one month, he traveled without need and broke his fast for the days of his travel. Does this break the consecutiveness, or does he continue from where he left off?
Answer:
No, no. If he breaks his fast for a valid legal excuse, it does not break the consecutiveness. So the breaking of the fast is obligatory. And the obligatory fast is like Ramadan; if something that breaks the consecutiveness occurs during the fasting for the expiation, [it does not break it], yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وفي محاسبة النفس عدة مصالح — islamhouse.com (59:32)
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