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Eating should be stopped before it begins to get light, before the first obvious signs of approaching dawn:
“...Eat and drink until you can distinguish a white thread from a black one [until the dividing line between the coming day and the departing night appears on the horizon] at dawn. And then fast until night [until sunset, abstaining from eating, drinking and intimate relationships with his wife (husband)]...” () .
If there is no mosque in a particular city and a person cannot find a local fasting schedule, then to be more sure, it is better to complete suhur no later than an hour and a half before sunrise. The sunrise time can be found on any tear-off calendar.
The importance of the morning meal is evidenced, for example, the following words Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him): “Take food before dawn [on fasting days]! Truly, in suhoor is God’s grace (barakat)!” . also in authentic hadith it is said: “There are three practices, the use of which will give a person the strength to fast (he will eventually have enough strength and energy to keep the fast): (1) eat, and then drink [that is, do not drink a lot while eating, do not dilute the gastric juice , and 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 adhan on morning prayer], (3) take a nap during the day [approximately 20–40 minutes or more between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.].”
If a person who intended to fast does not eat before dawn, then this does not in any way affect the validity of his fast, but he will lose some part of the sawab (reward), for he will not perform one of the actions included in the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad.
Iftar ( evening reception food) It is advisable to start immediately after sunset. It is not advisable to postpone it until a later time.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “My ummah will be in prosperity until it begins to postpone breaking the fast until a later time and perform suhoor at night [and not in the morning, deliberately getting up before the time of morning prayer] ".
It is advisable to start breaking the fast with water and an odd amount of fresh or dried dates. If you don’t have dates, you can start iftar with something sweet or drink water. According to a reliable hadith, the Prophet Muhammad, before performing evening prayer, began breaking his fast with fresh or dried dates, and if they were not available, then with plain water.
Dua No. 1
Transcription:
“Allahumma lakya sumtu wa ‘alaya rizkykya aftartu wa ‘alaikya tavakkyaltu wa bikya aamant. Ya vaasi'al-fadli-gfir liy. Al-hamdu lil-lyahil-lyazi 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 believe in You. Forgive me, O One whose mercy is limitless. Praise be to the Almighty, Who helped me fast and fed me when I broke my fast" ;
Dua No. 2
Transcription:
“Allahumma lakya sumtu wa bikya aamantu wa aleykya tawakkyaltu 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 my fast using Your gifts. Forgive me for past and future sins, O All-Forgiving One!”
During breaking the fast, 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 eating properly holy month Ramadan? Indira.
Water, dates, fruits.
The imam of the mosque where I perform collective prayer said that eating must be stopped after the call for morning prayer, and the remaining food that is in the mouth at the time of the call must be spat 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 hear the first call? And if such omissions were made, is it necessary to make up for the fast? Gadzhi.
There is no need to complete the post. The calculation is approximate in any case, and the verse says in this regard:
“...Eat and drink until you can distinguish a white thread from a black one [until the dividing line between the coming day and the departing night appears on the horizon] at dawn. And then fast until night [before sunset, abstaining from eating, drinking and intimate relations with your spouse]” (see).
On fasting days, stop eating at the start of the adhan from any local mosque, including those 1 to 5 minutes later.
During fasting, my friend ate in 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 your intention and eat food. Wildan.
A morning meal is advisable. Intention is, first of all, intention in 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.
You need to stop eating about an hour and a half before dawn. You are guided by Fajr time, that is, by the beginning of the morning prayer time.
During Ramadan, it so happened that I either didn’t hear the alarm clock, or it didn’t go off, and slept through 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 intended to get up in the morning and fast, which means you had a heartfelt intention. Having this is enough. Verbal intention is only an addition to the intention in the heart, in thoughts.
Why does fasting begin before morning adhan? If you eat after imsak and before adhan, is fasting valid? If not, why not? Lobster.
The post is valid, and the reserve of time (prescribed in some schedules) is for safety net, but there is no canonical need for it.
Why do all the sites write the time “imsak”, and always different, although everyone refers to the hadith that even during the azan for morning prayer the Prophet allowed chewing? Gulnara.
Imsak is a desirable border, in 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 boundary that cannot be crossed is the adhan for morning prayer, the time of which is indicated in any local prayer schedule.
I am 16 years old. This is the first time I’m keeping my wits about me 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 am, did not express my intention, and was tormented by remorse. And I also had a dream that I was fasting and ate food ahead of time. Maybe these are some kind of signs? I haven’t been able to come to my senses all day now, my soul is somehow heavy. Did I break my fast?
The fast was not broken, because you intended to fast that day, and you knew about it in the evening. It is only advisable to pronounce the intention. Whether your heart is heavy or easy depends largely on you: what matters is not what happens, but how we feel about it. A believer has a positive, enthusiastic attitude towards everything, charges others with energy, optimism and never loses hope for God's grace and forgiveness.
I had an argument with a friend. He takes suhur after morning prayer and says that it is permissible. I asked him to provide proof, but I didn’t hear anything intelligible from him. Explain, if you don’t mind, is it possible to eat after the time for 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 adhan for the morning prayer of Fajr.
I am holding a sacred fast. 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 first, but hunger takes over. Am I committing a big sin? Louise.
There is no sin if the time for prayer is not over. And it comes out with the onset of the time of the fifth prayer.
Is fasting valid if I eat within 10 minutes after adhan on morning prayer? Magomed.
You will have to make up for it with one day of fasting after the month of Ramadan.
Our prayer is read before breaking the fast, although it is written on your website that it is read after iftar. What should I do? Farangis.
If you mean prayer-namaz, 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.
For more details about the absence of the canonical need to stop eating food in advance (imsak) before the adhan for morning prayer, which is practiced in some places today,
Hadith from Anas, Abu Hurairah and others; St. X. Ahmad, al-Bukhari, Muslim, an-Nasai, at-Tirmidhi, etc. See: As-Suyuty J. Al-jami' as-sagyr. P. 197, Hadith No. 3291, “sahih”; al-Qaradawi Y. Al-muntaka min kitab “at-targyb wat-tarhib” lil-munziri. T. 1. P. 312, Hadith No. 557; al-Zuhayli V. Al-fiqh al-Islami wa adillatuh. In 8 volumes. T. 2. P. 631.
The point is that, in accordance with the Sunnah, a person, for example, during the evening breaking of the fast, first drinks water and can eat a few dates. Then he performs the evening prayer-namaz and eats afterwards. The first drink of water after a day of fasting rinses gastrointestinal tract. By the way, it is very useful to drink on an empty stomach warm water with honey diluted in it. The hadith recommends that food (consumed after evening prayer) not be particularly diluted with water. Simultaneous drinking and consuming food leads to difficulty in digestion (concentration decreases). gastric juice), indigestion, and sometimes heartburn. During the period of fasting, this entails inconvenience due to the fact that the evening food does not have time to be digested, and after that the person either does not eat in the early morning, since he does not feel hungry, or eats, but it turns out to be “food for food”, which in another to a greater extent complicates the process of digesting 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. P. 206, Hadith No. 3429, “Hasan”.
Hadith from Abu Dharr; St. X. Ahmad. See, for example: As-Suyuty J. Al-jami' as-sagyr. P. 579, Hadith No. 9771, “sahih”.
Hadith from Anas; St. X. Abu Dawud, at-Tirmidhi. See, for example: As-Suyuty J. Al-jami' as-sagyr. P. 437, Hadith No. 7120, “Hasan”; al-Qaradawi Y. Al-muntaka min kitab “at-targyb wat-tarhib” lil-munziri. T. 1. P. 314, Hadith No. 565, 566; al-Zuhayli V. Al-fiqh al-Islami wa adillatuh. In 8 vols. T. 2. P. 632.
See, for example: Az-Zuhayli V. Al-fiqh al-Islami wa adillatuh. In 8 vols. T. 2. P. 632.
I'll bring you full text hadith: “There are three categories of people whose prayer will not be rejected by God: (1) the one who fasts when he breaks his fast, (2) the just imam (the leader in prayer, spiritual mentor; leader, statesman) and (3) the oppressed [undeservedly offended, humiliated]". Hadith from Abu Hurayrah; St. X. Ahmad, at-Timizi and Ibn Majah. See, for example: Al-Qaradawi Y. Al-muntaka min kitab “at-targyb wat-tarhib” lil-munziri: In 2 volumes. Cairo: at-Tawzi' van-nashr al-islamiyya, 2001. Vol. 1. P. 296, Hadith No. 513; as-Suyuty J. Al-jami‘ as-sagyr [Small collection]. Beirut: al-Kutub al-‘ilmiya, 1990. P. 213, hadith No. 3520, “Hasan.”
Another reliable hadith says: “Truly, the prayer of the fasting person [addressed to God] during the breaking of the fast will not be rejected.” Hadith from Ibn ‘Amr; St. X. Ibn Majah, al-Hakim and others. See, for example: Al-Qaradawi Y. Al-muntaka min kitab “at-targyb wat-tarhib” lil-munziri. T. 1. P. 296, Hadith No. 512; as-Suyuty J. Al-jami' as-saghir. P. 144, Hadith No. 2385, “sahih”.
There is also a hadith that “the prayer of a person who fasts is not rejected during all day post." St. x. al-Barraza. See, for example: Al-Qaradawi Y. Al-muntaka min kitab “at-targyb wat-tarhib” lil-munziri. T. 1. P. 296.
See, for example: Al-Qaradawi Y. Fatawa mu'asyra. In 2 vols. T. 1. P. 312, 313.
See, for example: Al-Qaradawi Y. Fatawa mu'asyra. In 2 vols. T. 1. P. 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 series of necessary preparations and religious ceremonies.
Holy fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam and must mandatory observed from morning prayer to evening prayer. In Islam, this type of worship has the goal of bringing believers closer to Allah. When the Prophet Muhammad was asked: “Which is the best deed?” He replied: “Fasting, for nothing compares to it.”
Fasting begins at dawn and ends after sunset. During the month of Ramadan, devout Muslims daytime refuse to eat. In Islam, there are two night meals: Suhur - pre-dawn and Iftar - evening.
Suhur
Throughout Ramadan morning reception Muslims eat food before dawn. They believe that Allah will greatly reward such an action.
During traditional Suhoor, you should not overeat, but you should eat enough food. Suhoor gives you 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 suhur, then his day of fasting remains valid, but he will not receive any reward.
Iftar
The evening meal should begin immediately after sunset, that is, after the last prayer of the day (or the fourth, penultimate prayer of that day). After Iftar, Isha follows - the night prayer of Muslims (the last of the five obligatory daily prayers).
