What is better for the traveler: breaking the fast or fasting?
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The Shaykh : But is it better for him to fast, or is it better for him to break the fast? We say that the better option is the easier one for him. If breaking the fast is easier for him, he should break it. If fasting and breaking the fast are equal in ease, the scholars have differed on whether fasting is better or breaking the fast is better. The stronger position is that fasting is better. First: because this is the practice of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), for he used to fast and break the fast. When it was said to him that fasting had become difficult for the people and that they were waiting to see what he would do, he acted accordingly. Second: because it hastens the clearing of one's obligation. Third: because it is easier for the person, as we find that when a person has missed fasts to make up, this burden weighs heavily on him. Some people may have only one day of Ramadan to make up, yet they delay and postpone making it up until the last day of Sha'ban because of the heaviness of the obligation. But if he fasts with the people, it becomes easier for him.
