What is better for a traveler on a plane: breaking the fast or fasting?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a traveler is on a plane and the distance is short and the journey is comfortable, is it better to break the fast or to fast?
Answer:
What is better is what is easier for him; what is better is what is easier for him. If fasting is easier for him, he fasts, and if breaking the fast is easier for him, he breaks it. The traveler is in hardship, even if he is on a plane, meaning the disembarking, loading the luggage, waiting, and so on, there is hardship in it, especially if it is in the days of heat. They are not like those who are settled. The traveler, even if he is on a plane, is in hardship. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a traveler is on a plane and the distance is short and the journey is comfortable, is it better to break the fast or to fast?
Answer:
What is better is what is easier for him; what is better is what is easier for him. If fasting is easier for him, he fasts, and if breaking the fast is easier for him, he breaks it. The traveler is in hardship, even if he is on a plane, meaning the disembarking, loading the luggage, waiting, and so on, there is hardship in it, especially if it is in the days of heat. They are not like those who are settled. The traveler, even if he is on a plane, is in hardship. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 037 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الصيام / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:05:40)
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