Beware of Turning Your Blessed Month from a Month of Erasing Sins into a Month of Increasing Them!

Sheikh Muhammad Sa’eed Raslan حفظه الله

To our noble sisters who have sent their questions, please be patient with us. In shā’ Allāh, all the questions will be answered. We are forwarding each of them to our noble scholars and are awaiting their responses.

We kindly repeat once more: please limit your questions to those related to Ramadan, so that the task may be made easier for us and the answers delivered in a timely and organised manner.

May Allah bless you all.

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📩 The Question:

What is the ruling on women using menstrual preventatives (pills) in order to fast the entire month of Ramaḍān?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ḥizām al-Baʿdānī — may Allah preserve him.

These pills affect some women with a clear effect, and she finds severe pains. And the Prophet ﷺ says: “There is to be no harm and no reciprocating harm.”

So whoever experiences pains because of them, it is not permissible for her to cause herself illness and pain. She must refrain.

And whoever is not harmed when she uses them for one month, and if some pain occurs it is something light, then it does not reach in her case the level of prohibition. However, it is disliked because she may expose herself to severe pain.

Based upon this, it is disliked, except in the case of the one for whom it has become clear that she is harmed by it; then in her case it is prohibited.

So it revolves between dislike and prohibition. And Allah knows best.

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O Servant of Allah, Will You Witness Another Ramadan? Live This Ramadan As If It’s Your Last!

Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli حفظه الله

A Question Every Muslim Must Ask Himself in This Blessed Month: Will I Be Forgiven — or Will Humiliation Follow Me to the Next Ramadan?

Sheikh Muhammad Sa’eed Raslan حفظه الله

📩 The Question:

My first question is regarding my pregnancy. My baby is at risk and isn’t growing, I was advised by my Muslim doctor to not fast. Am I exempt from fasting according to my case?

My second question is: What is the ruling for the person who is exempt from fasting? Such as making up the fast when able to and paying money to feed a fasting person.

📝 The Answer:

Answered by Shaykh Abū al-Faḍl al-Lībī — may Allah preserve him.

The woman, if she fears for herself or for her fetus, then she breaks the fast and feeds one poor person for each day. What is important is that the doctor be a Muslim — sincere, knowledgeable, truthful.

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📩 The Question:

I hope you are well and your Ramadan is going well inshaaAllah

I have a question regarding the timing of fajr and when to stop Suhoor.

It is said to stop when the black thread of the night turns white, how do you define this and what do you physically need to look out for in order to stop and have your doubts removed?

In addition to this our Salah app or Calender showing the timings of all the Salah for the area and masjid we follow show, for example, Fajr begins at 05:25am however when I physically look outside it is still dark. How do you navigate this situation?

Jazakallahu khayr, may Allah continue to grant you all Tawfeeq Ameen

📝 The Answer:

Answered by Shaykh Abū al-Faḍl al-Lībī — may Allah preserve him.

In the two Ṣaḥīḥs, from the hadith of ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, may Allah be pleased with him, he said: When it was revealed: “and eat and drink until the white thread (light) of dawn appears to you distinct from the black thread (darkness of night)” (Al-Baqarah 2:187), he, may Allah be pleased with him, said: I went to a black ʿiqāl — and it is that by which the camels are tied — to a white ʿiqāl, and I placed them under my pillow. I began to look during the night, but it did not become clear to me — meaning, it did not become clear to him — the colour, due to the intensity of the darkness. So I went early to the Prophet ﷺ and mentioned that to him — meaning, when he entered the morning, he went to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: “Your pillow then would be wide, if the white thread and the black thread were under your pillow. Rather, that is the blackness of the night and the whiteness of the day.”

So the people today do not have a regulating measure, especially in Europe and these countries; they do not have a specific timing. But the Prophet ﷺ says: “And the mu’adhdhin (the one who gives the call to prayer) is entrusted (with responsibility).” So when the first mu’adhdhin calls, the person eats and drinks until the second mu’adhdhin calls. As for refraining from the suḥūr out of precaution, then it is from the newly introduced innovations. We ask Allah to accept from him and from you the righteous deeds.

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📩 The Question:

I have a question regarding dhikr. I understand that the Sunnah is to count on the fingers, and I do that comfortably when I am alone. However, when I am outside around people and someone speaks to me, I often lose track of the number.

Would it be permissible for me to use a thumb tasbīḥ counter in such situations so I can keep my count without forgetting?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by Shaykh Abū al-Faḍl al-Lībī — may Allah preserve him.

Using the prayer beads is an innovation. So if a person wishes to glorify (Allah), then let him glorify in any manner; it is not a condition that it be with the fingers. If he is, as mentioned in the question, occupied with the people in conversation, then he glorifies, and the angels record for him the righteous deeds, and nothing from the deed of the servant is lost.

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📩 The Question:

Peace be upon you.

May Allah reward you with good,

What is the ruling regarding the work of Muslims who deliver food to disbelievers in the lands of disbelief during the daytime?

Is this work permissible for them during the day?

Please advise us, and may Allah reward you with good.

📝 The Answer:

Answered by Shaykh Dr. ʿAbd al-Majīd Jumuʿah — may Allah preserve him.

It is not permissible for them.

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📩 The Question:

Is eating suḥūr a condition for the validity of the fast?

📝 The Answer:

Answered by Shaykh Muḥammad bin Ḥizām al-Baʿdānī — may Allah preserve him.

It is not a condition for the validity of the fast. So whoever sleeps through suḥūr, and Fajr reaches him, then let him fast without suḥūr, and Allah will aid him. Many people may sleep through suḥūr and find help from Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He.

So it is binding upon him to fast as long as he is able. So if it becomes difficult upon him due to leaving suḥūr, and he fears for himself destruction or fainting, then here it is permissible for him to break the fast:

﴿وَلا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ﴾
“And do not throw yourselves into destruction.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:195)

And he makes it up.

And suḥūr is blessing, as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“Take suḥūr, for indeed in suḥūr there is blessing.”

Agreed upon from Anas رضي الله عنه.

And it has come in the Musnad of Aḥmad from a man from the Companions رضي الله عنه that he said: The Prophet ﷺ said:

“Indeed it is a blessing which Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has given you, so do not leave it.”

And in it is مخالفة (opposition) to the People of the Book. And their fasting used to be without suḥūr: a person would sleep and then eating would become forbidden upon him. As soon as he slept, eating became forbidden upon him even if he woke before Fajr — it was not permissible for him to eat.

And the matter was also upon that in the beginning of the obligation of fasting upon this Ummah. Then that was abrogated. Allah تعالى said:

﴿أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ الصِّيَامِ الرَّفَثُ إِلَى نِسَائِكُمْ﴾
“It is made lawful for you to have sexual relations with your wives on the night of As-Ṣaum (the fasts)…”
(Surah Al-Baqarah 2:187)

And in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ رضي الله عنه that the Prophet ﷺ said:

“The distinction between our fasting and the fasting of the People of the Book is the meal of suḥūr.”

Allah placed in it blessing — blessing in strength for the fasting person, and blessing also in reward for his standing at that blessed time. For its time is blessed. And in it is blessing also for the body of the fasting person and assistance for him upon fasting.

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The Noble Benefits of Fasting

• Taqwā of Allah.

• Health of the body.

• Constricting the passage of the Shayṭān.

• Remembering the condition of the poor and the needy.

• Fasting is a shield.

• Fasting teaches patience.

• Fasting is a victory over the self.

• Fasting is a victory over the Shayṭān.

• The supplication of the fasting person is answered.

📚Mudhakkirah fī Aḥkām aṣ-Ṣiyām by al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Waṣābī – may Allah have mercy upon him (Page 31-32)

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