Ayatullah Sistani - Fasting - Index

This is the index for the Fasting section of Practical Laws of Islam according to the teachings of Ayatullah Sistani

Fasting

Definition of Fasting

Intention (Niyyah)

1. Fasting: Intention for Fasting

2. Fasting: Intention for Fasting in Ramadan

3. Fasting: Latest Time for the Intention of Fasting in Ramadan

4. Fasting: Intention for a Recommended Fast

5. Fasting: Sleeping Without Making the Intention to Fast

6. Fasting: Specifying the Type of Fast in the Intention

7. Fasting: Intentionally Making the Intention for a Different Fast During Ramadan

8. Fasting: Mistaking the Day of the Month in the Intention

9. Fasting: Becoming Unconscious After Making the Intention to Fast

10. Fasting: Becoming Intoxicated After Making the Intention to Fast

11. Fasting: Sleeping Throughout the Day After Making the Intention to Fast

12. Fasting: Realising it is the Month of Ramadan During the Day

13. Fasting: Child Reaching the Age of Legal Responsibility

14. Fasting: Keeping a Recommended Fast While Having Qadaʾ Fasts

15. Fasting: Intention for an Assigned Fast Other Than Ramadan

16. Fasting: Intention for an Unassigned Obligatory Fast

17. Fasting: Disbeliever Becoming a Muslim During the Day

18. Fasting: Sick Person Getting Well During the Day

19. Fasting: Doubting Whether it is the Last Day of Shaʿbān or the First Day of Ramadan

20. Fasting: Finding Out it is Ramadan During a Doubtful Day

21. Fasting: Indecision About Invalidating an Assigned Obligatory Fast

Fasting: Indecision About Invalidating a Recommended or Unassigned Obligatory Fast

Things That Invalidate (Mubtilat) A Fast

1. Fasting: Things That Invalidate a Fast

   1. Fasting: Eating and Drinking

   2. Fasting: Sexual Intercourse

   3. Fasting: Masturbation

   4. Fasting: Ascribing something false to Allah the Exalted, the Most Noble Prophet (S), or the Infallible Imams (A)

   5. Fasting: Causing Thick Dust to Reach the Throat

   6. Fasting: Remaining in a State of Janabah, Hayd, or Nifas Until the Time of Subh Prayers

   7. Fasting: Applying Enema

   8. Fasting: Vomitin

2. Laws Of Things That Invalidate A Fast

   1. Fasting: Intentionally or Unintentionally Invalidating a Fast

   2. Fasting: Intentionally Invalidating a Fast Believing It Is Already Invalid

   3. Fasting: Being Forced to Break a Fast

   4. Fasting: Going to a Place Knowing One Will Be Forced to Break the Fast

Things That are Disapproved (Makruh) For A Fasting Person To Do

1. Fasting: Disapproved Acts for a Fasting Person

Times When It Is Obligatory (Wajib) To Both Make Up (Qadaʾ) And Give Recompense (Kaffarah)

1. Fasting: Obligation of Kaffarah and Qadaʾ

2. Fasting: Believing an Act Does Not Invalidate the Fast

Recompense (Kaffarah) Of A Fast

1. Fasting: Kaffarah for Unlawfully Breaking a Fast in Ramadan

2. Fasting: Method of Fasting Two Months for Kaffarah

3. Fasting: Timing the Start of the Two-Month Kaffarah Fast

4. Fasting: Interrupting a Continuous Kaffarah Fast

5. Fasting: Interrupting a Continuous Fast with a Legitimate Excuse

6. Fasting: Invalidating a Fast with Something Unlawful

7. Fasting: Obligation of Kaffarah and Qadaʾ

8. Fasting: Multiple Invalidating Acts in a Single Day

9. Fasting: Invalidating a Fast Followed by Sexual Intercourse

10. Fasting: Invalidating a Fast with a Lawful Act Followed by an Unlawful Act

11. Fasting: Intentionally Swallowing What Comes Up from Burping

12. Fasting: Intentionally Invalidating a Vowed Fast on an Assigned Day

13. Fasting: Breaking a Fast Based on an Unverified Statement About Maghrib

14. Fasting: Traveling After Intentionally Invalidating a Fast

15. Fasting: Intentionally Breaking a Fast Followed by a Legitimate Excuse

16. Fasting: Intentionally Invalidating a Fast Mistakenly Believing It Is Ramadan

17. Fasting: Intentionally Invalidating a Fast When Doubting Between Ramadan and Shawwāl

18. Fasting: Compelling a Fasting Wife to Have Sexual Intercourse

19. Fasting: Compelling a Fasting Husband to Have Sexual Intercourse

20. Fasting: Wife Consenting During Compelled Sexual Intercourse

21. Fasting: Sexual Intercourse with a Fasting Wife While She Is Asleep

22. Fasting: Compelling a Spouse to Invalidate a Fast Through Means Other Than Sexual Intercourse

23. Fasting: Non-Fasting Husband Compelling a Fasting Wife to Have Sexual Intercourse

24. Fasting: Timing of Giving Kaffarah

25. Fasting: Delaying the Payment of Kaffarah

26. Fasting: Conditions for Feeding Sixty Poor People as Kaffarah

27. Fasting: Intentionally Invalidating a Qadaʾ Fast After Zuhr

Times When It Is Obligatory (Wajib) To Only Make Up (Qadaʾ) A Fast

1. Fasting: Cases Where Only Qadaʾ is Obligatory

2. Fasting: Unintentionally Swallowing Something Other Than Water or Water from the Nose

3. Fasting: Excessive Gargling and Swallowing Saliva

4. Fasting: Gargling When Knowing Water Will Enter the Throat

5. Fasting: Invalidating a Fast After Investigating the Time of Subh

6. Fasting: Doubting Whether It Is Maghrib or Subh

Laws Of A Lapsed (Qadaʾ) Fast

1. Fasting: Making Up Fasts Missed While Insane

2. Fasting: Making Up Fasts Missed While a Disbeliever

3. Fasting: Making Up a Fast Missed Due to Intoxication

4. Fasting: Doubting the Number of Missed Fasts Due to an Excuse

5. Fasting: Order of Keeping Qadaʾ Fasts from Previous Ramadans

6. Fasting: Not Specifying Which Ramadan a Qadaʾ Fast Belongs To

7. Fasting: Invalidating a Qadaʾ Fast Before Zuhr

8. Fasting: Invalidating a Qadaʾ Fast Kept for a Dead Person After Zuhr

9. Fasting: Dying Before Being Able to Make Up Missed Fasts

10. Fasting: Missed Fasts Due to an Excuse Continuing Until the Following Ramadan

11. Fasting: Missed Fasts Due to One Excuse Replaced by Another Until the Following Ramadan

12. Fasting: Intentionally Delaying Missed Fasts Until the Following Ramadan

13. Fasting: Negligently Delaying Qadaʾ Fasts Until an Excuse Arises

14. Fasting: Missed Fasts Due to an Illness Continuing for Several Years

15. Fasting: Giving the Kaffarah of Several Days to One Poor Person

16. Fasting: Delaying Qadaʾ Fasts for a Few Years

17. Fasting: Intentionally Not Keeping the Fasts of the Month of Ramadan

18. Fasting: Repeating Actions That Invalidate a Fast

19. Fasting: Keeping the Qadaʾ Fasts of a Deceased Father

20. Fasting: Obligatory Fasts Other Than Ramadan of a Deceased Father

Laws Of Fasting For A Traveller

1. Fasting: Rules of Fasting for a Traveller

2. Fasting: Travelling During the Month of Ramadan

3. Fasting: Travelling When an Assigned Fast Other Than Ramadan is Obligatory

4. Fasting: Keeping a Vowed Fast on a Journey

5. Fasting: Keeping Recommended Fasts in Medina for a Traveller

6. Fasting: Fasting on a Journey Without Knowing the Ruling

7. Fasting: Forgetting That One is a Traveller or That a Traveller’s Fast is Invalid

8. Fasting: Travelling Before or After Zuhr While Fasting

9. Fasting: A Traveller Reaching His Home Town or Destination Before Zuhr

10. Fasting: A Traveller Reaching His Home Town or Destination After Zuhr

11. Fasting: Disapproved Actions for a Traveller and Anyone with a Legitimate Excuse

Those On Whom Fasting Is Not Obligatory (Wajib)

1. Fasting: When Fasting is Excessively Difficult Due to Old Age

2. Fasting: Becoming Able to Fast After Not Fasting Due to Old Age

3. Fasting: Having an Illness That Causes Excessive Thirst

4. Fasting: Fasting for a Pregnant Woman Approaching Delivery

5. Fasting: Fasting for a Breastfeeding Woman with Little Milk

Ways Of Establishing The First Of The Month

1. Fasting: Establishing the First of the Month

2. Fasting: Establishing the First of the Month by the Ruling of a Fully Qualified Jurist

3. Fasting: Establishing the First of the Month by the Predictions of Astronomers

4. Fasting: The Moon Being High, Setting Late, or Having a Halo

5. Fasting: The Month of Ramadan Being Established Afterwards

6. Fasting: Establishing the First of the Month in Cities with a United Horizon

7. Fasting: Not Knowing Whether it is the Last Day of Ramadan or the First of Shawwal

8. Fasting: A Prisoner Who Cannot Be Certain About the Month of Ramadan

Unlawful (Haram) And Disapproved (Makruh) Fasts

1. Fasting: Unlawful Fasts

2. Fasting: A Woman’s Fast Conflicting with Her Husband’s Conjugal Rights

3. Fasting: A Recommended Fast Kept by a Child Causing Annoyance to Parents

4. Fasting: A Child Breaking a Recommended Fast When Forbidden by Parents

5. Fasting: Fasting When Personal Certainty of Harm Conflicts with a Doctor’s Advice

6. Fasting: Fasting When There is Fear of Significant Harm

7. Fasting: Discovering After Maghrib That Fasting Caused Significant Harm

8. Fasting: Other Unlawful Fasts

9. Fasting: Disapproved Fasts

Recommended (Mustahabb) Fasts

1. Fasting: Recommended Fasts

Times When It Is Recommended (Mustahabb) For One To Abstain From Things That Invalidate A Fast

1. Fasting: Recommended Abstinence from Things That Invalidate a Fast

2. Fasting: Performing Maghrib and ʿIshaʾ Prayers Before Breaking the Fast