Timing of Abstaining and Breaking the Fast
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Question: What is the ruling on breaking the fast on a day of making up a fast missed in Ramadan?
Answer: It is not permissible for one who is fasting to make up a missed day from Ramadan to break his fast, because once he has formed the intention and begun fasting, it is obligatory for him to complete that day, and it is not permissible for him to break it.And the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) said: And whoever enters into an obligation with a wide time frame, it becomes forbidden for him to break it.
Question: Even if it is an obligation, such as a vow or an expiation?
Answer: All obligatory fasting, whether it is making up a missed day, a vow, or an expiation, if a person enters into it and begins fasting the day, it is obligatory for him to complete it, and it is not permissible for him to break it, except for a dire necessity.
Question: If he breaks it, does the ruling become the same as the ruling for breaking the fast in Ramadan?
Answer: It does not carry the same ruling as breaking the fast in Ramadan, but he commits a sin by doing so.
[Timing of Abstaining and Breaking the Fast]
Question: I reside in the city of Krakow in Poland, and last Ramadan came upon us. Allah granted us the ability to fast it, praise be to Him. However, in our abstaining and breaking the fast, we relied on the timing of our home country, Iraq, knowing that the timing here in Poland is ahead of Iraq, so we must abstain before them and break our fast before them. We fasted on this basis for four days until we realized the difference in timing, so we adopted the timing of the country where we are fasting. What is the ruling on our initial action, and what is obligatory upon us?
Answer: As the questioner mentioned, it is obligatory for them to follow the timing of the country in which they are, so they abstain at the dawn of Fajr and break their fast at the setting of the sun.in the country in which they are, by the saying of the Exalted: [al-Baqarah: 187] .
This applies to a Muslim in any place, as long as he has the dawn of Fajr and the setting of the sun, then the fast is between them.
As for what happened to them at the beginning of the month, where they were fasting according to the timing of another country, which differs from the timing of the country in which they are, that is an error. It is obligatory for them to make up these days that they fasted in this manner, because their fasting is not valid and does not conform to the Shari'ah, as we mentioned. And if another Ramadan has passed for them without them making up these days, it is obligatory for them, along with making up the fast, to feed one poor person for every day. And Allah knows best.
Answer: It is not permissible for one who is fasting to make up a missed day from Ramadan to break his fast, because once he has formed the intention and begun fasting, it is obligatory for him to complete that day, and it is not permissible for him to break it.And the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) said: And whoever enters into an obligation with a wide time frame, it becomes forbidden for him to break it.
Question: Even if it is an obligation, such as a vow or an expiation?
Answer: All obligatory fasting, whether it is making up a missed day, a vow, or an expiation, if a person enters into it and begins fasting the day, it is obligatory for him to complete it, and it is not permissible for him to break it, except for a dire necessity.
Question: If he breaks it, does the ruling become the same as the ruling for breaking the fast in Ramadan?
Answer: It does not carry the same ruling as breaking the fast in Ramadan, but he commits a sin by doing so.
[Timing of Abstaining and Breaking the Fast]
Question: I reside in the city of Krakow in Poland, and last Ramadan came upon us. Allah granted us the ability to fast it, praise be to Him. However, in our abstaining and breaking the fast, we relied on the timing of our home country, Iraq, knowing that the timing here in Poland is ahead of Iraq, so we must abstain before them and break our fast before them. We fasted on this basis for four days until we realized the difference in timing, so we adopted the timing of the country where we are fasting. What is the ruling on our initial action, and what is obligatory upon us?
Answer: As the questioner mentioned, it is obligatory for them to follow the timing of the country in which they are, so they abstain at the dawn of Fajr and break their fast at the setting of the sun.in the country in which they are, by the saying of the Exalted:
And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]. Then complete the fast until the sunset.
وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِThis applies to a Muslim in any place, as long as he has the dawn of Fajr and the setting of the sun, then the fast is between them.
As for what happened to them at the beginning of the month, where they were fasting according to the timing of another country, which differs from the timing of the country in which they are, that is an error. It is obligatory for them to make up these days that they fasted in this manner, because their fasting is not valid and does not conform to the Shari'ah, as we mentioned. And if another Ramadan has passed for them without them making up these days, it is obligatory for them, along with making up the fast, to feed one poor person for every day. And Allah knows best.