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Now I'm going to talk about the things which are obligatory in fasting.
Ustadh Abdulrahman Hassan explains key actions that invalidate or harm fasting beyond eating and drinking, emphasizing moral conduct during Ramadan.
Key Takeaways
- Fasting requires both physical abstention and moral discipline.
- Lying and vulgar speech harm the fast and should be strictly avoided.
- Smoking definitively breaks the fast and is sinful.
- Proper fasting involves patience and controlling one’s speech and behavior.
- Fasting is a high form of servitude to Allah, not just refraining from food and drink.
Summary
- Fasting obligations (wajibat) are general and not specific only to Ramadan.
- Avoid lying (qawluz-zur) as it invalidates the spiritual value of fasting.
- Refrain from idle and vulgar speech (al-laghwu war-rafath) during fasting.
- Fasting is more than abstaining from food and drink; it includes moral restraint.
- Respond to insults during fasting by calmly stating 'I am fasting' to maintain patience.
- Many people fast or pray but only experience hunger or tiredness due to neglecting proper behavior.
- Some scholars believe vulgar speech nullifies fasting, but hadiths affirm fasting remains valid despite such faults.
- Smoking during fasting breaks the fast and is unanimously agreed upon as invalidating fasting.
- Sinful acts do not necessarily break the fast but diminish its spiritual reward.
- The essence of fasting is obedience and servitude to Allah, beyond physical abstention.
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Wajibatussom, the things which are obligatory in fasting.
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The scholars they said, fasting, there isn't anything which are specifically wajib to it.
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So, the wajibat that are in Ramadan are wajibat which are also throughout the year.
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There's nothing specific for Ramadan, they say.
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But there are things which are haram.
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Muharramat that Ramadan you have to be very careful.
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Number one, which is the muharramat, in other words, it's wajib for you to leave off.
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Is qawluzuri wal'amali bi muqtadahu, stay away from lying.
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Stay away from lying, some people they lie in the month of Ramadan, stay away from it.
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Al-Imam al-Bukhari narrated in his Sahih from Hadith Abu Hurairah that the Prophet said, "Man lam yada' qawluzuri wal'amali bihi falaysa lillahi hajatun an yada' ta'amahu wa sharabahu." Whoever does not leave off lying.
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Man lam yada' qawluzuri, the person who doesn't leave off lying and acting in an ignorant way.
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Allah has no need, Allah doesn't want from you any fasting.
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The want here, I mean the iradah here is iradah shar'iyyah, not iradah kawniyyah.
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Iradah shar'iyyah, meaning what fasting are you fasting?
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If you're lying and you're not holding back, the scholars they said, and the Salaf they said, "Ahwanus siyam" the easiest fasting is what?
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Tarkut ta'ami wa sharab, is to leave off food and drinking.
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That's the easiest fasting.
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To say, I'm not going to eat or drink.
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The real fasting is to stay away from the things Allah made haram from you.
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The second thing that we should stay away from and it's obligatory for us to stay away from.
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Is al-laghwu war-rafath.
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What does al-laghwu war-rafath mean?
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It means idle speech.
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It's not lying.
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But vulgar speech, some people when they speak, they're very vulgar in the way that they speak.
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And of course, sexual intercourse, which we're going to come to, inshallah ta'ala.
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The Prophet, he said, "Laysas siyamu minal akli wash-shurbi."
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The Prophet said, "Fasting is not staying away from only drinking and eating.
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Wa innamas siyamu, but fasting is to stay away from minal laghwi war-rafath.
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To stay away from vulgar and idle speech.
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Then the Prophet said, "Fa in sabaka ahadun."
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If someone insults you and you are fasting, respond to them by saying, "Inni imru'un sa'im."
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I am fasting.
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Meaning, don't engage with that person.
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Are we all together, you turn away from that person, you walk away.
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And you say, I'm fasting.
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Not that I am fasting, watch when Ramadan finishes, I'll deal with you.
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But I am fasting, meaning I don't, I don't go to that level.
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You respond with that.
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You say, I am fasting.
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I remember a situation where a brother had another, had an altercation with another brother of his.
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And he said to him, I am fasting.
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And that brother said to me, wallahi, the wake-up call that word had on me.
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I mean, the way it affected me.
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That I was angry and I wanted to go out with my brother.
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And he responded by telling me, "Inni imru'un sa'im."
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I am fasting.
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He said, whatever response he could have ever given me, it would never have weighed as powerful as "Inni imru'un sa'im."
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I'm fasting.
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So even the person you say that to will feel, will feel what you just said to him.
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Meaning Allah had told me to withhold from this and I'm listening to my master, Allah.
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It's a high level of servitude, may Allah make us from those slaves who adhere to this.
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Also, the Prophet, he said in a hadith, "Kam min sa'imin laysa lahu min siyamihi illal ju'.
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How many people are fasting and all, all that which they got from their fasting is hunger.
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Wa kam min qa'imin, how many people are standing up, laysa lahu min qiyamihi illas sahar.
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He has not received from his standing up, meaning prayer, only tiredness.
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What's the problem with these two people, they're fasting, this one's fasting.
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And this one is praying, but both of them have only left with either hunger or tiredness.
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The scholars they said, because of these people have damaged their fasting or their qiyam with external problems.
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Idle speech and other things.
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some of the scholars even believe, like Ibrahim an-Nakha'i and others from the Salaf, they actually believed that the person's fasting will be null and void.
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If you idle speech, vulgar, you say F word, this word, S word, L word, your fasting is gone.
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Some of the scholars believe that.
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Ibrahim an-Nakha'i and others.
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But the hadith doesn't support them because the hadith said, "Kam min sa'imin."
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How many people who are fasting?
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So the Prophet affirmed fasting for them even that though he's telling them off of what they're doing.
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So they're still fasting and their fasting is valid, but it's problematic for you to do that.
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What were the two things I mentioned that you have to stay away from in terms of fasting?
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Yeah?
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So the first one is lying.
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Qawluz-zur, which we said it's lying.
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And the second one is al-laghwu war-rafath.
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Which we said is vulgar speech, idle speech and all of that.
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What about if a person smokes in Ramadan?
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What's the ruling on that fasting?
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Is his fasting gone?
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Yeah, who thinks otherwise?
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But it's a sin.
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It's a sin, right?
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What we said just now that the sin doesn't break your fasting.
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Does smoking break your fasting?
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Huh?
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Ay, naam, of course it breaks your fasting.
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Are we all together?
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It what?
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It breaks your fasting.
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And this is the consensus of our time regarding fasting being broken by smoking.
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