Permissibility of breaking the fast in voluntary fasting
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Question:
With Allah's blessing, we begin this session with a message from Jeddah. The questioner (N. F) says: Your Eminence! I was fasting on a Monday voluntarily, but hunger became severe for me, and I was afflicted with some pain and extreme fatigue. My sister said to me: Break your fast, there is no blame on you; because this is a voluntary fast. So I broke my fast, but I heard, Your Eminence, from some women that whoever breaks a voluntary fast after having fasted part of the day, it is obligatory for him to make it up. What is the ruling? May you be rewarded.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon whoever follows his guidance. As for what follows:
The authentic Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) indicates that the one who performs voluntary acts is the master of his own affairs. So if he fasts voluntarily, he has the right to break his fast, especially if he needs to do so; there is no blame in that.
The point is: the one who fasts voluntarily has the right to break his fast, whether at the beginning of the day or during the day. And if there is a need for it, it is even more so. If he feels some weakness, or if his host invites him to a wedding feast or something else, and he wants to please him, and he breaks his fast, there is nothing wrong with it. All of this carries no blame, and praise be to Allah. The one who performs voluntary acts is the master of his own affairs; if he wishes, he completes it, and if he wishes, he breaks it. Yes.
The presenter: If a person is fasting a make-up fast, is it permissible...
The Shaykh: As for the make-up fast, no, he does not have the right to break it except due to illness or travel. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
With Allah's blessing, we begin this session with a message from Jeddah. The questioner (N. F) says: Your Eminence! I was fasting on a Monday voluntarily, but hunger became severe for me, and I was afflicted with some pain and extreme fatigue. My sister said to me: Break your fast, there is no blame on you; because this is a voluntary fast. So I broke my fast, but I heard, Your Eminence, from some women that whoever breaks a voluntary fast after having fasted part of the day, it is obligatory for him to make it up. What is the ruling? May you be rewarded.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon whoever follows his guidance. As for what follows:
The authentic Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) indicates that the one who performs voluntary acts is the master of his own affairs. So if he fasts voluntarily, he has the right to break his fast, especially if he needs to do so; there is no blame in that.
The point is: the one who fasts voluntarily has the right to break his fast, whether at the beginning of the day or during the day. And if there is a need for it, it is even more so. If he feels some weakness, or if his host invites him to a wedding feast or something else, and he wants to please him, and he breaks his fast, there is nothing wrong with it. All of this carries no blame, and praise be to Allah. The one who performs voluntary acts is the master of his own affairs; if he wishes, he completes it, and if he wishes, he breaks it. Yes.
The presenter: If a person is fasting a make-up fast, is it permissible...
The Shaykh: As for the make-up fast, no, he does not have the right to break it except due to illness or travel. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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