Hasten to Forgiveness from Your Lord
Allah The Almighty encourages His slaves to hasten and race to doing good as He Says (what means): • {And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord} [Quran 3:133] • {Race toward forgiveness from your Lord} [Quran 57:21] • {So race to [all that is]...
Mistakes made in Suhoor (predawn meal)
Some of the mistakes that fasting people make in regard to Suhoor are: 1-Some people do not have Suhoor and this is contrary to the Sunnah. It is from the guidance of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, to have Suhoor if the person intends to observe...
Objectives of Fasting
All perfect praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, his family, his Companions, and those who follow his guidance. Allah, the Almighty, enjoined fasting on His servants not to make them suffer, nor that He, the Almighty benefits from their fasting, as He is not in need of His servants and the acts of worship they offer. Rather, Allah enjoined fasting in order to benefit His servants in the...
Breaking fasting due to pregnancy
Question: I read in a contemporary book of Fiqh (jurisprudence) that if the pregnant woman breaks her fasting during Ramadan, according to the sounder opinion, she will be required only to make expiation. Hence, my wife would break fasting when she was pregnant and expiate only. This was repeated for many years. Recently, however, I came to know that this opinion is weak and that the sound opinion is that she is required to make up for the days of fasting...