Continuation of the Shaykh’s speech on the ruling regarding the secret habit in breaking the fast.

The Shaykh : We stated in the first session that the things that break the fast are of two types: material things that break the fast and spiritual things that break the fast. Whoever is raised and studies jurisprudence based on these two types of things that break the fast, and knows that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said: in the verse regarding the obligation of fasting in Ramadan, then whoever has studied this verse well does not distinguish between a material thing that breaks the fast, which he pays attention to, and a spiritual thing that breaks the fast, which he does not pay attention to. Thus, the one who has studied this correct jurisprudence must cease from all things that break the fast, meaning he must cease from both the material things that break the fast and the spiritual things that break the fast. So we are now saying that the secret habit, just as a man approaching his wife without intercourse, without sexual intercourse, neither of them breaks the fast. However, the original ruling for approaching is permissibility, as detailed previously. As for the secret habit, the original ruling for it is prohibition. Therefore, young people should cease from this habit, whether they are fasting or not. But if one of them gets involved and disobeys Allah (Mighty and Majestic), his case is like the case of one who adorns himself with gold or wears forbidden silk in Ramadan, or looks with a forbidden gaze, or a woman displays her adornment and appears in the street while she thinks she is fasting, but she is displaying her adornment. Do we say that her fast is invalidated because of this sin or because of those sins?
We say that the material breaking of the fast is not the case, but the spiritual breaking of the fast is the case. So you must be aware of breaking the fast in the general Shari'ah sense, not in the specific jurisprudential sense. And this is the end of the answer.