The Ruling on Intimacy with One’s Wife During the Daytime of Ramadan

The questioner:
May Allah keep you steadfast. In a third question, he asks: What is the ruling if a man enjoys the company of his wife or caresses her while fasting, and nothing comes out of him? What is the ruling on that?

The Shaykh:
This does not affect his fast, as long as nothing comes out of him. It does not affect his fast, but he should stay away from this; because it is a means to what is forbidden, and a means to ruining the fast. The Shari'ah has come to block the means that lead to what is prohibited and to what is forbidden. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah love you. In his final question, he says: I hope you will clarify for us some of the dangers of young people gathering and congregating in the passageways.

The Shaykh:
But with the observation that he did not have intercourse with her in his private part. However, if he had intercourse with her in her private part, his fast is invalid and the severe expiation becomes obligatory upon him, even if nothing comes out of him. This is only regarding external intimacy.