Imam Khamenei - Fasting - Index

This is the index for the Fasting Rules section of Practical Laws of Islam according to the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Fasting

Fasting

1. Fasting: Ruling for a Pubescent Girl Unable to Fast Due to Weak Health

2. Fasting: Fasting at Maturity: Ruling for Girls Who Find It Difficult

3. Fasting: When Does Qadā’ Become Obligatory If Puberty Age Is Unclear?

4. Fasting: Does a Nine-Year-Old Girl Have to Make Up a Broken Fast?

5. Fasting: Doubt About Fasting Obligation: Is Qadā’ and Kaffārah Required?

6. Fasting: Missed Fasts Due to Military Duty: Is Qadā’ and Kaffārah Required?

7. Fasting: Does Ghusl by Immersion While Fasting Invalidate the Fast?

8. Fasting: Delayed Return While Traveling: Is the Fast Valid or Qadā’ Required?

9. Fasting: Fasting While Flying: Does Frequent Water Intake Require Qadā’ and Kaffārah?

10. Fasting: Does Menstruation Before Maghrib Invalidate the Fast?

11. Fasting: Does Immersion in a Diving Suit Affect the Fast?

12. Fasting: Can One Travel Intentionally in Ramadan to Avoid Fasting?

13. Fasting: Missed Intention for Obligatory Fast: Can It Count as Mustahabb?

14. Fasting: Addicted to Smoking in Ramadan: What Is My Duty?

Pregnant and Nursing Women

1. Fasting: Should a Pregnant Woman Fast If She’s Unsure About Harm to the Baby?

2. Fasting: Pregnancy, Fasting, and Loss: Rulings on Validity, Liability, and Intent

3. Fasting: Breastfeeding in Ramadan: What If Fasting Dries Up Milk?

Illness and Restriction by a Physician

1. Fasting: Can One Rely on Non-Practicing Doctors to Skip Fasting?

2. Fasting: Missed Fasts Due to Long-Term Illness: Is Qadā’ Obligatory?

3. Fasting: Missed Fasts in Early Maturity Due to Weakness: What Is the Ruling?

4. Fasting: Fasting with Eye Disease: Should I Endure Pain or Refrain?

5. Fasting: Weak Eyesight and Medical Advice: Must I Fast in Ramadan?

6. Fasting: Should the Sick and Elderly Fast If It Worsens Their Condition?

7. Fasting: Told Not to Fast After Surgery—But I Feel Fine: What’s My Duty?

8. Fasting: Should I Obey a Doctor Who Forbids Fasting but Ignores Islamic Law?

9. Fasting: Kidney Stones Require Constant Fluids: Am I Exempt from Fasting?

10. Fasting: Fasting with Diabetes: When Medical Needs Conflict with Ramadan

Fast Invalidators

1. Fasting: Changing One’s Mind After Intending to Break the Fast — Is It Still Valid?

2. Fasting: Does Bleeding in the Mouth Break the Fast?

3. Fasting: Does Smoking Invalidate the Fast?

4. Fasting: Does Using ‘Nās’ (Chewing Tobacco) Break the Fast?

5. Fasting: Does Using an Asthma Inhaler Break the Fast?

6. Fasting: Bleeding Gums While Fasting: Is My Fast Still Valid?

7. Fasting: Swallowing Leftover Food by Mistake While Fasting — Is Qadā’ Required?

8. Fasting: Heavy Gum Bleeding & Pouring Water Over the Head — Do They Break the Fast?

9. Fasting: Do Vaginal Medications Break the Fast?

10. Fasting: Do Injections Invalidate the Fast in Ramadan?

11. Fasting: Can You Take Blood Pressure Pills While Fasting?

12. Fasting: Do Tablets Break the Fast If They’re Not Considered Food or Drink?

13. Fasting: Ruling on Intercourse with Spouse During Fasting in Ramadan

14. Fasting: Does Foreplay with One’s Wife During Ramadan Break the Fast?

Remaining Junub

1. Fasting: Remaining Junub at Fajr: Is the Fast Still Valid?

2. Fasting: Fasting While Junub Unknowingly: Qadā’ or Kaffārah?

3. Fasting: Can Ghusl Be Delayed After Sunrise for Qadā’ or Mustahabb Fast?

4. Fasting: Travelling While Junub in Ramadan to Avoid Fasting: Is Kaffārah Waived?

5. Fasting: Can One Intentionally Become Junub at Night in Ramadan Without Access to Ghusl?

6. Fasting: Woke Up Junub at Fajr Without Realising — Is the Fast Valid?

7. Fasting: Delaying Ghusl Until After Noon in Ramadan — Is the Fast Valid?

8. Fasting: Fasting After Doubting Janābah Before Fajr — What’s the Ruling?

9. Fasting: Used Najis Water for Ghusl in Ramadan — Are Fasts and Prayers Valid?

10. Fasting: Incontinence After Janābah: How to Begin the Fast in a State of Ṭahārah?

11. Fasting: Becoming Junub After Fajr: When Must Ghusl Be Performed?

12. Fasting: Forgot Ghusl of Janābah During Ramadan — What’s the Ruling?

Masturbation

1. Fasting: Breaking the Fast Through Ḥarām Acts — What Is the Ruling?

2. Fasting: Masturbation While Fasting: Is Double Kaffārah Required?

3. Fasting: Emission Due to Non-Mahram Interaction in Ramadan — Is the Fast Invalid?

4. Fasting: Habitual Masturbation in Ramadan: What About Past Prayers and Fasts?

5. Fasting: Can a Husband Masturbate with His Wife’s Hand in Islam?

6. Fasting: Is Medical Masturbation Permissible for Semen Testing?

7. Fasting: Is Masturbation for Fertility Testing Islamically Allowed?

8. Fasting: Is It Permissible to Seek Arousal by Imagining One’s Wife or a Non-Maḥram?

9. Fasting: Masturbation in Early Maturity Without Knowing Janābah Rules — What’s Required?

10. Fasting: Becoming Junub from Viewing Arousing Content While Fasting — Is the Fast Broken?

11. Fasting: Breaking the Fast Multiple Times in One Day — What’s the Ruling?

Rules of Breaking Fasting

1. Fasting: Can a Shī‘a Break Fast with Sunnī Timings in Public Settings?

2. Fasting: When I was fasting, my mother forced me to eat and drink. Did it invalidate my fast?

3. Fasting: Does Breaking the Fast Under Duress Invalidate It?

4. Fasting: Breaking the Fast Before Reaching Tarakhkhuṣ Limit — What’s the Ruling?

5. Fasting: Swallowing Mucus and Delaying Ghusl: Are the Fasts Still Valid?

6. Fasting: Fasting While Inhaling Dust at Work — Is the Fast Valid?

Kaffārah of the Fast and Its Amount

1. Fasting: Can Money Be Given Instead of Food for Fidyah or Kaffārah?

2. Fasting: Can an Attorney Take Wages from Kaffārah Funds for Cooking and Serving?

3. Fasting: Delayed Qadā’ Fasts After Pregnancy — Is Kaffārah Due for Every Year?

4. Fasting: Unable to Fast Due to Illness — Who Pays the Kaffārah?

5. Fasting: Breaking Qadā’ Fasts in Sha‘bān — What’s the Ruling Before or After Noon?

6. Fasting: Missed Two Ramadans Due to Pregnancy — Is Qadā’ Enough or Is Kaffārah Required?

7. Fasting: Qadā’ and Kaffārah: Must They Be Done in Order?

Making up Missed Fasts

1. Fasting: Missed Ramadan Fasts Due to Religious Travel — Is Qadā’ Obligatory?

2. Fasting: Breaking a Hired Qadā’ Fast — Is Kaffārah Required?

3. Fasting: Delayed Qadā’ Fasts After Religious Travel — Is Kaffārah Due?

4. Fasting: Unable to Make Up a Decade of Missed Fasts — Is Tawbah Enough?

5. Fasting: Regained Ability After Failing to Do Kaffārah — What’s My Duty Now?

6. Fasting: Missed Qadā’ Before Next Ramadan Due to Ignorance — What’s the Ruling?

7. Fasting: Missed 120 Fasts — Is 60 Days of Kaffārah Required for Each One?

8. Fasting: Uncertain Intentions During Fasting — Can They Count as Qadā’?

9. Fasting: Can Mustahabb Fasts Count as Qadā’ If One Forgets Missed Fasts?

10. Fasting: Invalidated Fast Due to Ignorance — Qadā’, Kaffārah, or Both?

11. Fasting: Too Weak to Fast at Puberty — Is Qadā’ Enough or Is Kaffārah Also Required?

12. Fasting: Uncertain Number of Missed Fasts and Prayers — What’s the Duty?

13. Fasting: Missed Suḥūr, Broke Fast Later — Is Single or Double Kaffārah Required?

14. Fasting: Uncertain About Completing Missed Fasts — What Should One Do?

15. Fasting: Missed and Broken Fasts After Puberty — What’s the Ruling?

16. Fasting: Doctor Advised Against Fasting — Later Found to Be Wrong: Is Kaffārah Required?

Miscellaneous Issues on Fasting

1. Fasting: Menstruation During a Vowed Fast — What’s the Ruling?

2. Fasting: Traveled During Last Days of Ramadan — How Many Fasts Must Be Made Up?

3. Fasting: Traveling After Maghrib — Can One Eat in a City Where Sunset Hasn’t Arrived?

4. Fasting: Fulfilling a Martyr’s Will for Qadā’ Fasts Without Heirs’ Support — What’s the Solution?

5. Fasting: Waswās (Obsessive Doubts) in Fasting — Is the Fast Still Valid?

6. Fasting: Can the Ḥadīth al-Kisā’ Be Attributed to Lady Fāṭimah (A) During Fasting?

7. Fasting: Breaking a Mustaḥabb Fast When Invited — Is the Reward Still Preserved?

8. Fasting: Can Daily Ramadan Du‘ās Be Recited If Their Authenticity Is in Doubt?

9. Fasting: Missed Suḥūr and Couldn’t Fast — Who Bears the Blame, and Is the Fast Valid Without Suḥūr?

10. Fasting: Fasting on the Third Day of I‘tikāf in Masjid al-Ḥarām — What’s the Ruling?

Sighting the New Moon

1. Fasting: Does the Crescent’s Setting Determine the Start of a New Lunar Month?

2. Fasting: Can the New Moon Be Confirmed Using Binoculars or a Telescope?

3. Fasting: Should One Rely on Media Announcements for the Start of Shawwāl?

4. Fasting: Unable to Sight the Crescent Locally — Can One Follow Another Country’s Horizon or a Calendar?

5. Fasting: Is a Shared Horizon Necessary for Valid Crescent Moon Sighting?

6. Fasting: What Does “Sameness of Horizon” Mean in Moon Sighting?

7. Fasting: Can Cities with Different Horizons Follow Tehran’s ‘Īd Moon Sighting?

8. Fasting: Conflicting Crescent Sightings by Scholars — Whom Should You Follow?

9. Fasting: Is It Obligatory to Report a Crescent Sighting to Religious Authorities?

10. Fasting: How Can the End of Ramadan Be Validated by a Marjiʿ’s Declaration?

11. Fasting: Does the Leader’s Īd Declaration Apply to All Cities Regardless of Longitude?

12. Fasting: Fine Crescent on ‘Īd Night — Was Shawwāl Declared Prematurely?

13. Fasting: Can the Full Moon Indicate the Start Date of Ramadan for Qadā’ Purposes?

14. Fasting: Is Moon Sighting a Kifāʾī Obligation or Just Recommended Caution?

15. Fasting: Crescent Sighting vs. Calendar — How Is Ramadan’s Start and End Determined?

16. Fasting: Can Crescent Announcements from a Government Be Trusted — Even If It’s Tyrannical?

17. Fasting: Is Iʿtikāf Valid in Mosques Other Than the Four Sacred Masjids?