Fasting when traveling to a country that is one day behind one’s own country
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man fasted the first day of Ramadan in Riyadh, then traveled outside the Kingdom during the month and found that this country was one day behind the Kingdom. If he follows this country, he will have fasted thirty-three days. Does he follow them, or does he settle for fasting thirty days?
Answer:
If we look at the fact that the default is that a Muslim does not deviate from the Muslims, he takes the ruling of the country he is in regarding fasting and breaking the fast; he fasts with them and breaks his fast with them and does not contradict them. But if he must contradict them, he does so in secret; he does not display breaking the fast or display the contradiction openly. He contradicts them in secret. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man fasted the first day of Ramadan in Riyadh, then traveled outside the Kingdom during the month and found that this country was one day behind the Kingdom. If he follows this country, he will have fasted thirty-three days. Does he follow them, or does he settle for fasting thirty days?
Answer:
If we look at the fact that the default is that a Muslim does not deviate from the Muslims, he takes the ruling of the country he is in regarding fasting and breaking the fast; he fasts with them and breaks his fast with them and does not contradict them. But if he must contradict them, he does so in secret; he does not display breaking the fast or display the contradiction openly. He contradicts them in secret. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب تعاهد الماقين وغيرهما من غضون الوجه — islamhouse.com (1:06:58)
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