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Eating should be stopped before it starts to get light, before the first obvious signs of approaching dawn:
“... Eat, drink until you begin to distinguish the white thread from the black one [until the dividing line between the coming day and the outgoing night appears on the horizon] at dawn. And then fast until the night [before sunset, refraining from eating, drinking and intimate relationships with your spouse (husband)] ... "().
If there is no mosque in a particular city and a person cannot find a local timetable for fasting, then for greater certainty it is better to complete Suhoor no later than an hour and a half before sunrise. Sunrise times can be found on any tear-off calendar.
The importance of the morning meal is evidenced, for example, by the following words of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): “Take food before dawn [on fasting days]! Verily, in suhoor - God's grace (barakat)! . Also in a reliable hadith it is said: “There are three practices, the use of which will give a person the strength to fast (he will eventually have the strength and energy to fast): (1) eat, and then drink [that is, do not drink much while eating, do not dilute the gastric juice, but drink after the feeling of thirst appears, 40–60 minutes after eating], (2) eat [not only in the evening, breaking the fast, but also] in the early morning [before the azan for morning prayer], (3) take an afternoon nap (nap) [approximately 20–40 minutes or more between 1 pm and 4 pm]” .
If a person who intended to fast does not eat before dawn, this does not affect the validity of his fast, but he will lose some of the sawab (reward), because he will not perform one of the actions included in the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad.
Iftar (evening meal) it is advisable to start immediately after sunset. Postponing it to a later time is undesirable.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “My ummah will be prosperous until it starts postponing the breaking of the fast until a later time and performing suhoor from the night [and not in the morning, specifically getting up before the morning prayer time] » .
It is advisable to start breaking the fast with water and an odd number of fresh or dried dates. If there are no dates, then you can start iftar with something sweet or drink water. According to a reliable hadith, the prophet Muhammad, before performing the evening prayer, began breaking the fast with fresh or dried dates, and if there were none, then with plain water.
Dua No. 1
Transcription:
“Allahumma lakya sumtu wa ‘alaya rizkykya aftartu wa ‘alaykya tavakkaltu va bikya aamant. Ya waasi'al-fadli-gfir liy. Al-hamdu lil-lyahil-lyazii e‘aanani fa sumtu wa razakani fa aftart.
اَللَّهُمَّ لَكَ صُمْتُ وَ عَلَى رِزْقِكَ أَفْطَرْتُ وَ عَلَيْكَ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَ بِكَ آمَنْتُ. يَا وَاسِعَ الْفَضْلِ اغْفِرْ لِي. اَلْحَمْدُ ِللهِ الَّذِي أَعَانَنِي فَصُمْتُ وَ رَزَقَنِي فَأَفْطَرْتُ
Translation:
“O Lord, I fasted for You (for the sake of Your pleasure with me) and, using Your blessings, I broke my fast. I hope in You and I believe in You. Forgive me, O He Whose mercy is infinite. Praise be to the Almighty, Who helped me to fast and fed me when I broke my fast”;
Dua No. 2
Transcription:
“Allahumma lakaya sumtu va bikya aamantu va aleykya tavakkyaltu wa ‘ala rizkykya aftartu. Fagfirli yay gaffaru ma kaddamtu wa ma akhhartu.”
اَللَّهُمَّ لَكَ صُمْتُ وَ بِكَ آمَنْتُ وَ عَلَيْكَ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَ عَلَى رِزْقِكَ أَفْطَرْتُ. فَاغْفِرْ لِي يَا غَفَّارُ مَا قَدَّمْتُ وَ مَا أَخَّرْتُ
Translation:
“O Lord, I fasted for You (for the sake of Your pleasure with me), believed in You, relied on You and broke the fast using Your gifts. Forgive me past and future sins, O All-Forgiving!
During the conversation, it is advisable for a believer to turn to God with any prayer or request, and he can ask the Creator in any language. An authentic hadith speaks of three prayers-du‘a (supplications), which the Lord certainly accepts. One of them is prayer during breaking the fast, when a person completes the day of fasting.
Please tell me how to start a meal in the holy month of Ramadan? Indira.
Water, dates, fruits.
The imam of the mosque in which I perform a collective prayer said that eating should be stopped after the call for morning prayer, and the rest of the food that is in the mouth at the time of the call should be spit out and rinsed out. In the place where I live, calls can be heard simultaneously from several mosques, with a time interval of 1 to 5 minutes. How important is it to stop eating from the moment I heard the first call? And if such omissions were made, is it necessary to make up for the post? Gadzhi.
You don't need to complete the post. In any case, the calculation is approximate, and the verse says in this regard:
“... Eat, drink until you begin to distinguish a white thread from a black one [until the dividing line between the coming day and the outgoing night appears on the horizon] at dawn. And then fast until night [before sunset, refraining from eating, drinking and intimate relationships with your spouse (husband)] ”(see).
On fasting days, stop eating at the start of the adhan from any local mosque, including those where 1-5 minutes later.
My friend during fasting ate from the evening and did not get up for suhoor. Is his post correct from the point of view of the canons? After all, as far as I know, you need to wake up before sunrise, say the intention and eat. Vildan.
Morning meal is desirable. Intention is, first of all, intentionality with the heart, a mental attitude, and it can be realized in the evening.
Until what time can you eat in the morning? The schedule includes Fajr and Shuruk. What to focus on? Arina.
It is necessary to stop eating about an hour and a half before dawn. You are guided by the time of Fajr, that is, by the beginning of the morning prayer time.
During Ramadan, it so happened that either I didn’t hear the alarm, or it didn’t work, I overslept Suhoor. But when I woke up for work, I spoke my intention. Tell me, does a fast observed in this way count? Arslan.
In the evening you were going to get up in the morning and fast, which means you had a heart intention. Having this is enough. Verbal intention is only an addition to the intention of the heart, in thoughts.
Why does the fast start before the morning azan? If you eat after imsak and before adhan, is fasting valid? If not, why not? Lobster.
The post is valid, and the margin of time (prescribed in some schedules) is for safety net, but there is no canonical need for it.
Why do all sites write the time “imsak”, and it is always different, although everyone refers to the hadith that even during the adhan for the morning prayer, the Prophet allowed to chew? Gulnara.
Imsak is a desirable border, in some cases very desirable. It is better to stop fasting an hour and twenty minutes or an hour and a half before sunrise, indicated in ordinary tear-off calendars. The border that cannot be crossed is the azan for the morning prayer, the time of which is indicated in any local prayer schedule.
I am 16 years old. This is the first time I am holding an eye and I still don’t know much, although every day I find something new for myself about Islam. This morning I slept longer than usual, woke up at 7 in the morning, did not utter my intention, I was tormented by remorse. And I also had a dream that I was fasting and took food ahead of time. Maybe these are some signs? For the whole day I can not come to my senses, my heart is somehow hard. Did I break my post?
The fast was not broken, because you intended to fast on this day, and you knew about it from the evening. It is only desirable to pronounce intention. Whether it's hard at heart or easy depends to a large extent on you yourself: it's not what happens that matters, but how we feel about it. The believer is positive, enthusiastic, energizes others, optimistic, and never loses hope in God's mercy and forgiveness.
I got into an argument with a friend. He takes suhoor after the morning prayer and says that it is permissible. I asked him to provide evidence, but I did not hear anything intelligible from him. Explain, if you don't mind, is it possible to eat after the time of the morning prayer? And if so, until what period? Muhammad.
There is no such opinion and never has been in Muslim theology. If a person intends to fast, then the deadline for eating is the azan for the morning Fajr prayer.
I hold a sacred post. When the time for the fourth prayer comes, I first drink water, eat, and then go to pray... I am very ashamed that I do not pray at first, but hunger takes over. Am I committing a big sin? Louise.
There is no sin if the prayer time is not up. And it comes out with the onset of the time of the fifth prayer.
Is fasting valid if I have eaten within 10 minutes of the adhan for the morning prayer? Magomed.
You will have to make up for it with one day of fasting after the month of Ramadan.
We read a prayer before they start breaking the fast, although it says on your website that it is read after iftar. How to be? farangis.
If you mean prayer-prayer, then the first thing you should do is drink water, then pray and after that sit down to eat. If you are talking about a prayer-du‘a, then it can be read at any time and in any language.
More about the absence of the canonical need to stop eating in advance (imsak) before the azan for the morning prayer, which is practiced in places today,
Hadith from Anas, Abu Hurairah and others; St. X. Ahmad, al-Bukhari, Muslim, an-Nasa'i, at-Tirmizi and others. S. 197, hadith no. 3291, "sahih"; al-Qardawi Yu. Al-muntaka min kitab "at-targhib wat-tarhib" lil-munziri. T. 1. S. 312, hadith No. 557; al-Zuhayli V. Al-fiqh al-islami wa adillatuh. In 8 vols. T. 2. S. 631.
The meaning is that, in accordance with the Sunnah, a person during, for example, an evening conversation, first of all drinks water and can eat a few dates. Then he performs the evening prayer-prayer and after that he eats. The first drink of water after a day of fasting flushes out the gastrointestinal tract. By the way, it is very useful to drink warm water with honey diluted in it on an empty stomach. In the hadith, it is recommended that food (consumed after the evening prayer) is not particularly diluted with water. Simultaneous heavy drinking and food consumption leads to difficulty in digestion (the concentration of gastric juice decreases), indigestion, and sometimes heartburn. During the fasting period, this entails inconvenience due to the fact that the evening meal does not have time to be digested, and after that the person either does not eat in the early morning, because he does not experience hunger, or eats, but it turns out “food for food”, which in more to a greater extent complicates the process of digestion of food and does not bring the expected benefits.
Hadith from Anas; St. X. al-Barraza. See, for example: As-Suyuty J. Al-Jami ‘as-sagyr. S. 206, Hadith No. 3429, "Hasan".
Hadith from Abu Dharr; St. X. Ahmad. See, for example: As-Suyuty J. Al-Jami ‘as-sagyr. S. 579, Hadith No. 9771, Sahih.
Hadith from Anas; St. X. Abu Dawud, at-Tirmidhi. See, for example: As-Suyuty J. Al-Jami ‘as-sagyr. S. 437, Hadith No. 7120, "Hasan"; al-Qardawi Yu. Al-muntaka min kitab "at-targhib wat-tarhib" lil-munziri. T. 1. S. 314, hadith No. 565, 566; al-Zuhayli V. Al-fiqh al-islami wa adillatuh. In 8 vols. T. 2. S. 632.
See, for example: Az-Zuhayli V. Al-fiqh al-islami wa adillatuh. In 8 vols. T. 2. S. 632.
I will give the full text of the hadith: “There are three categories of people whose prayer will not be rejected by God: (1) fasting when breaking the fast, (2) a just imam (primate in prayer, spiritual mentor; leader, statesman) and (3) oppressed [ undeservedly offended, humiliated]”. Hadith from Abu Hurairah; St. X. Ahmad, at-Timizi and Ibn Maja. See, for example: Al-Qardawi Yu. Al-muntaka min kitab "at-targyb wat-tarhib" lil-munziri: In 2 vols. S. 296, hadith no. 513; al-Suyuty J. Al-jami‘ as-sagyr [Small collection]. Beirut: al-Kutub al-‘ilmiya, 1990. S. 213, hadith no. 3520, “hasan.”
Another authentic hadith says: “Indeed, the prayer of the fasting person [addressed to God] during conversation will not be rejected.” Hadith from Ibn ‘Amr; St. X. Ibn Maja, al-Hakim and others. See, for example: Al-Qardawi Yu. Al-muntaka min kitab "at-targhib wat-tarhib" lil-munziri. T. 1. S. 296, hadith No. 512; al-Suyuty J. Al-jami ‘as-sagyr. S. 144, Hadith No. 2385, Sahih.
There is also a hadith that “the prayer of a fasting person for all day post." St. x. al-Barraza. See, for example: Al-Qardawi Yu. Al-muntaka min kitab "at-targhib wat-tarhib" lil-munziri. T. 1. S. 296.
See, for example: Al-Qardawi Yu. Fatawa mu‘asyr. In 2 vols. T. 1. S. 312, 313.
See, for example: Al-Qardawi Yu. Fatawa mu‘asyr. In 2 vols. T. 1. S. 312, 313.
The holy month of Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the most important and significant of all periods of the year. With its onset, every devout Muslim must begin fasting, as well as perform a number of necessary preparations and religious rites.
Holy fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam and must be observed without fail from morning prayer to evening prayer. In Islam, this type of worship is intended to bring believers closer to Allah. When the Prophet Muhammad was asked: "What is the best business?" He replied, "Fasting, for nothing compares to it."
Fasting begins at dawn and ends after sunset. During the month of Ramadan, devout Muslims refuse to eat during the day. In Islam, there are two nightly meals: suhoor - pre-dawn and iftar - evening.
Suhoor
Throughout Ramadan, Muslims spend their morning meal before dawn. They believe that Allah will greatly reward such an action.
During the traditional suhoor, you should not overeat, but you should eat enough food. Suhoor gives strength for the whole day. It is recommended to finish eating 10-20 minutes before the time indicated on the calendar.
If a believer does not perform suhoor, then his day of fasting remains in force, but he does not receive any reward.
Iftar
Evening meals should be started immediately after sunset, that is, after the last daily prayer (or the fourth, penultimate prayer on that day). Iftar is followed by Isha, the night prayer of Muslims (the last of the five obligatory daily prayers).
