The ruling on one who intentionally leaves a time-bound obligation
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The ruling on one who intentionally leaves a time-bound obligation
Your Eminence! I was asked in one of the lectures: Regarding a person who intentionally left fasting Ramadan for three years, I answered him based on the principle: that one who intentionally leaves a time-bound obligation owes no making up of it.
And at the same time, I was asked: Regarding a person who intentionally left fasting for six days, I answered him that he must make it up.
So what is the basis for distinguishing between the two?The Shaykh: I do not think this occurs.
The questioner: No, I heard that on a tape of Ramadan fatwas.
The Shaykh: This, may Allah bless you -Meaning: The second case - perhaps he broke the fast intentionally, meaning he started the fast and then broke it during the day. This is obligatory for him to make up, because when he engaged in the fast, it became obligatory for him to make it up due to his engagement with it. As for the first one who did not fast at all, that is the one about whom we say: if he made it up, it would not benefit him.
Your Eminence! I was asked in one of the lectures: Regarding a person who intentionally left fasting Ramadan for three years, I answered him based on the principle: that one who intentionally leaves a time-bound obligation owes no making up of it.
And at the same time, I was asked: Regarding a person who intentionally left fasting for six days, I answered him that he must make it up.
So what is the basis for distinguishing between the two?The Shaykh: I do not think this occurs.
The questioner: No, I heard that on a tape of Ramadan fatwas.
The Shaykh: This, may Allah bless you -Meaning: The second case - perhaps he broke the fast intentionally, meaning he started the fast and then broke it during the day. This is obligatory for him to make up, because when he engaged in the fast, it became obligatory for him to make it up due to his engagement with it. As for the first one who did not fast at all, that is the one about whom we say: if he made it up, it would not benefit him.