Compelling elementary school students to fast
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Question:
The fear is between. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Honorable Shaykh, may Allah have given you a good morning. Students in the primary school stage. The school administration obliges them to fast. If any of them break their fast, are they punished by the administration?
Answer:
Their families obliges them, their families obliges them. The school does not provide them with a place to eat, nor does it provide them with refrigerators. It prohibits this in Ramadan, it closes them, and it does not prepare anything for them in Ramadan. This is what is obligatory for the believer. As for ordering them to fast, that is upon their guardians.
The fear is between. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Honorable Shaykh, may Allah have given you a good morning. Students in the primary school stage. The school administration obliges them to fast. If any of them break their fast, are they punished by the administration?
Answer:
Their families obliges them, their families obliges them. The school does not provide them with a place to eat, nor does it provide them with refrigerators. It prohibits this in Ramadan, it closes them, and it does not prepare anything for them in Ramadan. This is what is obligatory for the believer. As for ordering them to fast, that is upon their guardians.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/53 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:19:54)
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