From sex to brushing, what should you know about fasting during Ramadan

What should you know about fasting during Ramadan? Who Can Fast? What messes it up?

You can find these and many more answers below.

1. What does fasting mean?      

Fasting begins at dawn and closes at dusk. During this period food and drink are banned, kept away from vices and sins such as smoking, swearing, lying, being cruel, and selfish. War and disrespect must be avoided, sex relations are also prohibited during fasting hours.

2. When should you eat?

Fasting is daily between a meal before dawn and a meal after sundown.

3. Who Fasts?

All male and female adults (meaning someone who has suffered puberty) must participate in the fast.

4. Exceptions on Specific occasions

There are exceptions. Anyone who is sick or traveling during Ramadan and who does not participate in the fast should do fast days later.

5. Women

Women who are pregnant, menstruation, or breast - feeding should not fast. If you start your period during the Ramadan fast, the fast is broken and you must compensate later.

6. The elderly or the sick.

The elderly and the chronically ill (including diabetes) are exempted from fasting along with serious mental illness. Doctors can give advice if you are able and well - equipped to fast.

7. What happens instead?

Those with permanent but possible health conditions help the poor to compensate in this way without fasting.

8. If you can't compensate for lost days and then make sad.

When one cannot fast in Ramadan and cannot compensate for lost days (for example, because of old age or because of ill health, pregnant women, breast - feeding or menstruation), then they must pay for someone to feed. This is known as sadak.

9. The masquerade.

Kaffarah (meaning "pendes") is the compensation you must pay if you deliberately lost or broke a fast in Ramadan for no good reason. To make amends, the person who did this has to fast for 60 days.

10. When you eat something unwittingly during the days of fasting, it is still valid.

Fasting is still valid if it is unwittingly destroyed when someone eats or drinks at a time of oblivion or is forced to do so.

11. If I puke during fasting, what happens?

Fasting has been broken if you deliberately vomit but not if it becomes sudden or unintentional. Don't swallow it up, for it will break the fast.

Twelve. Sex forbidden during fasting.

If you have sex during fasting, then you have broken the fast and you have to perform coffeerah (see No. 9 higher).

13. Kids shouldn't fast.

Children before birth are not forced to fast, but some do so for a few days or part of the day to train in readiness for Ramadan as an adult.

14. Is brushing allowed?

You can brush your teeth and clean your mouth, but you are not allowed to swallow water, or you will depreciate fasting.

15. A swim or a shower, how do you do?

You can swim and wash in the shower as long as you don't swallow water.

16. Injections are allowed.

If you need injections for medical reasons, it is perfectly acceptable to continue such and fasting will not be broken.

17. An accidental thrill that depreciates fasting.

Accidentally, devouring food or dust (such as the air particles of fried flour) or your saliva will not depreciate fasting. You may also deliberately enjoy food, for example, if you check spices when preparing a meal for an iftar later, as long as you do not eat food.

18. Cleanness.

You shouldn't be able to <x0janab”. This is an Islamic term that means after sex, the end of the menstrual cycle. People in this situation must be washed up to become ritually clean and to participate in the Ramadan fasting and prayers the following day. The ritual of complete cleaning the body that they must undertake is known as CHAghusl.