🌴Striving for Jannah🌴

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمْ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ* أَيَّاماً مَعْدُودَاتٍ فَمَنْ كَانَ مِنْكُمْ مَرِيضاً أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ وَعَلَى الَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ فِدْيَةٌ طَعَامُ مِسْكِينٍ فَمَنْ تَطَوَّعَ خَيْراً فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَهُ وَأَنْ تَصُومُوا خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ* شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِنْ الْهُدَى وَالْفُرْقَانِ فَمَنْ شَهِدَ مِنْكُمْ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ وَمَنْ كَانَ مَرِيضاً أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ بِكُمْ الْيُسْرَ وَلا يُرِيدُ بِكُمْ الْعُسْرَ وَلِتُكْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا اللَّهَ عَلَى مَا هَدَاكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
O you who believe! Observing As-Saum (the fasting) is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious).

[Observing Saum (fasts)] for a fixed number of days, but if any of you is ill or on a journey, the same number (should be made up) from other days. And as for those who can fast with difficulty, (e.g. an old man, etc.), they have (a choice either to fast or) to feed a Miskin (poor person) (for every day). But whoever does good of his own accord, it is better for him. And that you fast, it is better for you if only you know.

The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Quran, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between right and wrong). So whoever of you sights the month he must observe Saum (fasts) that month, and whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number [of days which one did not observe Saum (fasts) must be made up] from other days.

Allah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you. (He wants that you) must complete the same number (of days), and that you must magnify Allah [i.e. to say Takbir (Allahu-Akbar; Allah is the Most Great) on seeing the crescent of the months of Ramadan and Shawwal] for having guided you so that you may be grateful to Him.

[Surah Baqarah: Verses 183-185]

*Concludes the 1st part of the Khutbah]

THE SECOND KHUTBAH

All praise is for Allah for His favour and good, I thank Him for his success and bestowing of blessings. I testify that none has the right of worship except Allah alone without partners. And I testify that Muhammed is His slave and Messenger, may the Salat and much Salam of Allah be upon him and upon his family and companions.

As for what proceeds O slaves of Allah, fear Allah the Most High!

And from the things which also break the fast is what’s used to cleanse the kidney, or what’s used to cleanse the abdomen, from Mahaleel that enters into the mouth and withdrawn from it, this also breaks the fast.

Likewise also the fasting person is to refrain from backbiting, spreading tales, swearing, insults and lying speech. He’s to preserve his tongue from all what damages his fast.

Fasting is not just mere leaving off food, drink and the permissible affairs, rather alongside that is to leave off the prohibited matters which are required to be left off at all times anyway, but especially more so in the right of the fasting person as this damages his fast and decreases his reward or departs his good deeds until it becomes that his only share from fasting is only attaining hunger and thirst; without him getting a reward for it due to him not preserving his tongue from these matters.

Likewise he’s to protect his hearing from listening to music and songs, as well as not to listen to backbiting and gossip, and nor to anything that will distract him from the remembrance of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, from what’s broadcasted and spread through media platforms. Such as lowly, ridiculing television series’s and entertainment, so not to waste his time with it and nullify his fast due to it as his sinful by doing that.

(من نسي وهو صائم فأكل أو شرب فليتم صومه فإنما أطعمه الله وسقاه)
"Whoever forgets that he is fasting, and eats or drinks is to complete his fast, as it was Allah who fed him and gave him something to drink."

And from that is taking medication which the fasting person swallows or is injected through the rectum; which enters the abdomen, such as pills, liquids, and medicinal I.V. that enter ones abdomen, then indeed doing so breaks ones fast.

Similarly, injections that nourish breaks the fast because it falls under the meaning of food and drink. The same also for injections that’s taken through the veins because it mixes with blood and precedes to the body; this also breaks the fast. As for injections that’s taken under the skin or muscle then this doesn’t affect the fast.

And likewise among the things which break the fast is what’s extracted from the stomach, such as vomiting through the mouth whereby the fasting person vomits what’s in his stomach through the mouth. Thus, if he vomits (deliberately) then he breaks his fast, as for if he’s overcome by the vomit without choice then this doesn’t effect his fast.

Likewise from the invalidators of the fast is extraction of semen by way of sexual intercourse, or by way of the secret sin (masturbation), or by way of looking, repeatedly looking, continuously looking at women. So because of that it causes him to ejaculate due to it being a type of intercourse that causes the emitting of desires caused by the person himself, ejaculation caused by himself, thus his fast breaks because of it, seeing as from what is (also meant to) be fasted from is desires.

Allah the Most High said in the Hadith Qudsi regarding the fasting person:

(يدع شهوته وطعامه وشرابه من أجلي)
“He left off his desires, food, and drink for my sake”

So just as he leaves off food and drink, then likewise he leaves off the emitting of desires as this is from the things which break the fast.

Likewise, from the invalidators of the fast is Hijāma, which is withdrawing blood for the purpose of treatment, as this weakens the fasting person and removes his strength.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

(أفطر الحاجم والمحجوم)
“The performer of Hijāma and the one who Hijāma is being performed on both break their fast”.

And similar to Hijāma is: medically extracting blood to assist a sick person or to donate it; verily this breaks the fast because it resembles Hijāma in withdrawing a lot of blood. As for small amount of blood like what’s withdrawn for tests whilst it’s only a little, then this doesn’t affect the fast.

Also, from the things which break the fast is what women undergo of menstruation, as this also weakens the woman, it weakens her strength, that is why Allah prevented them from fasting and obligated expiation for it.

(فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ)
The same number (should be made up) from other days

And as for Istihātha (intermenstrual bleeding), which is a bleeding which occurs at other than it’s expected time, then this doesn’t effect the fast, therefore the one experiencing this is to fast because she takes the ruling one who is pure. Likewise if a person was to get wounded causing blood to flow from him, then it also doesn’t effect his fast because it was without his choice.

Therefore preserve your fasts from all that breaks it, May Allah have mercy upon you.

Likewise, from what is obligatory upon the fasting person is to follow through his intention like what we have mentioned. Because if the fasting person was to intend to break his fast he would invalidate it even if he didn’t consume anything, if he intends to break an obligatory fast then he would invalidate his fast due to cutting off the intention. Preserve your fasts from what corrupts it and what makes it deficient.

THE FIRST KHUTBA

All praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds, He made the fasting of Ramadhan one of the pillars of Islām. And I testify none has the right of worship except Allah alone without no partners, He called out to His slave and said:

(يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ)
O you who believe! Observing As-Saum (the fasting) is prescribed for you

And I testify that Muhammed is His slave and Messenger, the best of those who prayed and fasted, May the Salat and much Salam of Allah be upon him and upon his family, the pious and the noble.

As for what proceeds:

O mankind, fear Allah the Most High and thank Him over the blessing of Islām. Verily Allah the Glorious and Most High prescribed the fasting of Ramadhan upon this Ummah and made it one of the pillars of Islām.

The fasting of Ramadhan is obligatory upon every muslim that’s reached puberty and of sound intellect, from the first of the month to the last of it.

(فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ)
So whoever of you sights the month he must observe Saum (fasting).

The people are in different circumstances during the month of Ramadhan. What’s correct is that the resident; it’s upon him to fast and to do so every day. As for the sick who fasting is difficult for; or who are required not to fast, then they’re not to fast but to expiate it at other days.

And likewise the traveller who shortening has been made permissible for; the one who covers a journey to the distance of 80 kilometres and more, then he’s (permitted) not to fast but to expiate it at other days, due to His statement the Most High:

(فَمَن كَانَ مِنكُم مَّرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ)
but if any of you is ill or on a journey, the same number (should be made up) from other days.

And as for the one who isn’t able to endure fasting due to old age or growing old or a chronic sickness preventing him from fasting, likewise being incapable to repay the fast in the future, then this one is to feed a poor person for every day (they don’t fast).

The Most High said:

(ۚ وَعَلَى الَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ فِدْيَةٌ طَعَامُ مِسْكِينٍ)
And as for those who can fast with difficulty, (e.g. an old man, etc.), they have (a choice either to fast or) to feed a Miskin (poor person) (for every day).

So these are the circumstances of the people relating to fasting.

And the meaning of fasting linguistically is:

(الإمساك)
To withhold.

As for legislatively then fasting it is:

To withhold with the intention to abstain from what breaks the fast, physically and by meaning, from the rising of the second Fajr until the setting of the sun.

The Most High said:

(وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمْ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنْ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنْ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّوا الصِّيَامَ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ)
Eat and drink until the white thread (light) of dawn appears to you distinct from the black thread (darkness of night), then complete your Saum (fast) till the nightfall.

Intention (to fast) is required throughout the whole day from Fajr until the setting of the sun, the intention remains with him always, due to his statement ﷺ:

(لا صيام لمن لم يبيت النية من الليل)
“There’s no fast for he who doesn’t form his intention from the night (before)”

And in another narration:

(لمن لم يُجمع النية قبل طلوع الفجر)
“For he who doesn’t gather the intention before the emerging of Fajr”

So, having intention for fasting is a must. It’s such that if he was to refrain from food, and drink, and what invalidates the fast without having intention, then he would not be legislatively labelled as someone who is fasting.

And know, may Allah have mercy upon you, that fasting has (things) that invalidate it whereby it’s obligatory upon the fasting person to abstain from.

Firstly:

What enters the stomach via whatever passage it may be, then the one fasting breaks his fast, such as eating and drinking deliberately.

As for the one who forgetfully eats or drinks, then his fast remains intact and he is excused, due to the statement of the Prophet ﷺ:

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Aboo Daawood al Bireetornee, asks you all to please make du'a for our two brothers who returned to Singapore after being in Dammaaj and have been detained there by police and under constant police surveilance day and night ever since they returned. They have electronic tags fastened around their lower legs so that they can be tracked at anytime. They are forced to sit with a soofee teacher to educate them in their deen! May الله release them and return them to us, safe and secure in their religion.
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