Not Fasting & Eating Openly in Ramadhaan

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Q: What is the ruling regarding the person who does not fast during the month of Ramadhaan without a valid excuse and eats openly?

 

A: Fasting is a salient feature of Islam. To openly eat and drink during the month of Ramadhaan is tantamount to showing disregard to the salient feature of Islam and a major sin. If the one who does not fast and openly eats and drinks regards it as a sin but does so due to weakness of Imaan he will be guilty of a major sin but will not come out of the fold of Islam. If he believes that there is no sin in what he is doing then such a person has regarded this salient feature of Islam as insignificant. Hence this will render him out of the fold of Islam. (Ahsanul Fataawa vol.1 pg.37)

 

ولو أكل عمدا شهرة بلا عذر يقتل و تمامه في شرح الوهبانية قال في الوهبانية : ولو أكل الإنسان عمدا و شهرة ولا عذر فيه قيل بالقتل يؤمر قال الشرنبلالي صورتها: تعمد من لا عذر له الإكل جهارا يقتل لأنه مستهزئ بالدين أو منكر (ردالمحتار على در المختار ج2 ص413)

Answered by:

Mufti Zakaria Makada

Checked & Approved:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

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During period would it be sin to eat openly?

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During period would it be sin to eat openly?

 

Okay. Got the answer:

 

If a woman, whilst fasting, gets her period, she has to break her fast and make Qadhaa. It is permissible for her to eat secretly and openly. However, honouring the month of Ramadhaan, she should not eat openly. If a woman becomes cleansed from her periods during the day of Ramadhaan, then she has to abstain from eating and drinking like a fasting person. (Fataawa Rahimiyyah vol.7 pg.261)

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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