The ruling on the fast of one who spends his day sleeping and his night staying up and playing
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The question: Please give us a ruling on a person who is fasting and kills his day with sleep and keeps his night alive with staying up and playing in front of several media devices or several games. How do you advise such people, if you please?
The answer: His fast is valid and sufficient, but he has missed a great reward by wasting his time in what harms him and by not preserving his fast with the remembrance of Allah, supplication, recitation, and various types of worship during the day. He has also committed a great sin at night by engaging in entertainments, if he engages in entertainments such as listening to songs and other amusements. He also misses the virtue of sleep and rest that helps him in his work during the day. As for the fast, it is valid even if he stays up, but if he stays up in disobedience, he sins by doing so. And if he stays up in something other than disobedience, it is disliked for him to do so, and he misses the reward of following the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in sleeping and using sleep to help him keep the day alive with worship, obedience, benefiting the Muslims, and the like. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
The answer: His fast is valid and sufficient, but he has missed a great reward by wasting his time in what harms him and by not preserving his fast with the remembrance of Allah, supplication, recitation, and various types of worship during the day. He has also committed a great sin at night by engaging in entertainments, if he engages in entertainments such as listening to songs and other amusements. He also misses the virtue of sleep and rest that helps him in his work during the day. As for the fast, it is valid even if he stays up, but if he stays up in disobedience, he sins by doing so. And if he stays up in something other than disobedience, it is disliked for him to do so, and he misses the reward of following the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in sleeping and using sleep to help him keep the day alive with worship, obedience, benefiting the Muslims, and the like. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
Source
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