What is incumbent upon the pregnant and breast feeding woman if they break their fast

Question: What is incumbent upon the pregnant and breast feeding woman if they break their fast, fearful for their children, is it (upon them) to make it up, or make it up with expiation?

Answer by Shaykh Yahya Bin 'Alee Al-Hajooree - may Allaah preserve him:

Upon her is to make it up when she is able to, Allaah - Glorified be He, said:

فَمَنْ كَانَ مِنْكُمْ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ
“.. and whoever is ill or on a journey , the same number [of days which one did not observe fast must be made up] from other days.”
(Al-Baqarah:185)

Selected Duroos from Riyaad-us-Saaliheen on Fasting - 3

 

Chapter 221 - The excellence of the Pre-dawn meal and of its being delayed, as long as the appearance of dawn is not feared
     Lesson 1
     Lesson 2

Chapter 222 - the virtue of hastening to break the fast, and what a person should break his fast upon and what he should say after breaking the fast

Chapter 223 - the command to the fasting person to safeguard his tongue and his limbs from acts contrary to the legislation and from abusing and the like

Chapter 224 - with regard to some issues regarding fasting

Lesson 1

Installing a Satellite Dish to Watch the News - Sheikh Salih al-Fawzan

 

Question: O noble Sheikh there are numerous questions surrounding one topic here is one of the questions. What is the ruling on the person who installs a satellite dish in his home just for the news or to listen to Al Jazeera channel?

Sheikh Fawzan: The news is obtained without a satellite dish, it can be obtained in the newspaper, it can be obtained on the radio, and it can be obtained on Saudi television that which is not on satellite. It is obtained without a satellite dish.

The satellite dish brings about evil upon him and upon others such as his children and his family. Thus its evil is greater than its benefit, if there is any benefit. The evil outweighs it. Thus do not install it in the home due to its pure evil or its preponderant evil.

Only Allaah Can Remove Harm - Shaykh AbdurRahman as-Sa’dee

This is one of the greatest proofs that Allaah alone is worthy of worship, for verily He is the One who grants benefit or harm, the One who provides and the One who prevents.

If any harm such as poverty and sickness etc. befalls you ‘there is NONE who can remove it except Allaah’. This is because if all (those from) the creation gathered together in order to bring forth any type of benefit they would be unable to do so unless Allaah wrote it for them (thus allowing it). Likewise if (those from) the creation of Allaah gathered in order to cause harm to anyone, they would be unable to do so unless Allaah allowed it.

The fast of someone who is ill - Sheikh Uthaymeen

With regards to the ill person fasting in Ramadhan, Sheikh Muhammad ibn Saalih al ‘Uthaimeen rahimahullaah comments:

Illness (of the person during Ramadhan) is of three types:

1) An illness which the person is not expected to become cured from – rather it is continuous.

So this person – there is no fasting upon this ill person. Rather it is upon him to feed a needy person for each day, because he (this ill person) is just like an elderly person who is unable to fast, one whose inability is not expected to pass away.

2) The sick person who has an illness such that fasting will harm him.

The virtue of giving iftaar to one who is fasting

It was narrated that Zayd ibn Khaalid al-Juhani said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever gives iftaar to one who is fasting will have a reward like his, without that detracting from the reward of the fasting person in the slightest.”

(Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 807; Ibn Maajah, 1746. Classed as saheeh by Ibn Hibaan, 8/216 and by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami, 6415)

Shaykh al-Islam [Ibn Taymiyah] said: 

What is meant by giving him iftaar is giving him enough to satisfy him. 

(Al-Ikhtiyaaraat, p. 194)

What is Prohibited and Disliked for the one Fasting - Sheikh Saalih al-Fawzaan

 

Know that there are certain manners to fasting that one must abide by and adhere to so that the fast could proceed in the way it was prescribed so that one could achieve its benefits, fulfill its objective and not find it discomforting and without benefit. This is as the Prophet (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Perhaps all a person fasting derives from his fast is hunger and thirst.”

Being Generous: A Source of Relaxation - Imam Ibnul-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“…The Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) was the most generous person in giving away what he owned, and he would never look at something as being either too big or too insignificant to give up for the sake of Allaah. 

Avoid Mutual Enmity, Grudges & Malice In the Month of Ramadhan

Allâh’s Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said:

“The gates of Paradise are opened on Mondays & Thursdays, & then every servant (of Allâh) is granted forgiveness if he does not associate anything with Allâh in worship. But the person in whose heart there is rancour against his (Muslim) brother, they will not be pardoned. It will be said about them “Hold both of them until they reconcile with each other.”

                                                               Reported by: Muslim

Having Pleasant Speech - Al-Hafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali

Allaah has described the people of Jannah as those who treat the creation well by means of their good deeds and wealth, and they are patient when harmed. He said, “And hasten forth to forgiveness from your Lord, for Jannah is as wide as the heavens and the earth, prepared for the pious. Those who spend in prosperity and in adversity, who repress anger, and who pardon people; verily Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).”  

(Aali Imraan 3:133-134) 

Spending in prosperity and in adversity with one’s wealth implies the highest level of doing good. Repressing anger and pardoning people means that one does not reciprocate evil with evil, which entails that one must have pleasant speech and avoid ill-mannerism when it is permissible, thus He says, “Verily Allah loves Al-Muhsinun.”