The ruling on one who eats, drinks, or has intercourse during the day of Ramadan while forgetting.

The Shaykh : A man who is fasting, fasting, forgot and drank a cup of coffee, then remembered after he had drunk the cup. What do we say to him? Is his fast valid, or does he have to make it up? May Allah help us. He drank coffee after the midday prayer, coffee after noon, but he was forgetting, then he remembered. What do we say? His fast is valid, his fast is valid. The evidence is the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: And this, my brothers, is a great principle among the principles of Islam: the lifting of sin and blame from every one who errs or forgets. And who said this? Allah, Mighty and Majestic. It is not so-and-so and so-and-so that we say might make a mistake; it is the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, who said: Good. So does he not have to make it up? Answer? Yes. There is specific evidence on this matter, which is His saying, peace and blessings be upon him: The act is not his act in reality; he was forgetting, so it is as if he did not do it. For this reason, he said: Good. A man who recently got married came to his wife at the end of the night, thinking that the night was still there, and then the iqamah was called. What do you say? Does he have to do anything? A man had intercourse after the dawn! But he did not know that the dawn had appeared. Does he have to do anything? No. He has to do nothing. No sin, no expiation, and no making up the fast, because Allah the Exalted said: Women. All three are the same: intercourse with women, eating, and drinking. They are the same, and there is no evidence to distinguish between them. They are all the same, and they are all among the prohibitions of fasting. And if they occur out of ignorance or forgetfulness, then there is nothing on him. Good. This man who recently got married says: "I knew that it was forbidden, but I did not know that I had to pay this severe expiation. If I had known that I had to pay this severe expiation, I would not have done it." And the expiation is freeing a slave, and if he does not find one, then fasting two consecutive months, and if he cannot do that, then feeding sixty poor people, and if he does not find that, it is dropped. He says: "I knew that it was forbidden, but I did not know that I had to pay this expiation. If I had known, I would not have done it." So do we obligate him to pay the expiation or not? The answer is: Yes. We obligate him to pay the expiation, we obligate him to pay the expiation, and we have evidence and reasoning for that. The evidence is what Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: The man knew that it was forbidden, and for this reason he said: "I am ruined." He said: How many options are there now? The options are three: freeing a slave, and if he does not find one, then fasting, and if he cannot do that, then feeding. He had nothing. Glory be to Allah! A man who came in fear and terror, and he had this hope. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: So he returned to his wife with dates that would suffice them for as long as Allah wills. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not excuse him for his ignorance of the obligation of the expiation, because he was knowledgeable. Yes. The reasoning is that this one who knows the prohibition has violated the sanctity of the time and the sanctity of fasting, so he has no excuse, because he violated the sanctity, so he has no excuse.