Important Issues in Fasting.

The Shaykh : We will take up some issues regarding this. A man got up in the last part of the night and brought forward his pre-dawn meal, eating and drinking. Then the mu'adhdhin called the iqamah for prayer. What is the ruling on his fast? Yes, it is valid, because if he had heard the adhan, he would not have eaten. A man heard the adhan on the radio at sunset and thought it was the adhan of a mosque, so he broke his fast. Then he heard the mu'adhdhin of his neighborhood calling the adhan. Does he have to make up the fast? No, he does not have to make it up, because he was ignorant. A boy came to a man who had heard the adhan on the radio and said, "Father, the adhan has been called." The man broke his fast. Does he have to make it up or not? Is the boy's report considered? No, this is negligence; this is negligence and he is not excused, because a boy's report is not reliable. So he has to make up the fast. But if a mature, sane person came to him and said, "The adhan has been called," and he had heard the adhan from the radio and thought it was the neighborhood adhan, and he ate based on his report, then his fast is valid. Now, a person does not break his fast with the things that break the fast except under three conditions, and you have known their evidence from the Book and the Sunnah. When a person issues a ruling, or when he acts in his own affairs based on what the Book and the Sunnah indicate, he is reassured, reassured. But it is obligatory for everyone not to rush into issuing rulings until the matter becomes clear to him. And to conclude this meeting, before the questions come, I urge myself and you to seize the time of Ramadan with the remembrance of Allah, reading the Qur'an, giving charity, being kind to creation, and refraining from forbidden things, refraining from lying, from backbiting, from talebearing, from cheating, from every forbidden thing, because that is the purpose of fasting.