The rules of fasting
By Sheikh 'Abdulazîz Ar-Râjhî (Great scholar and Senior Lecturer at the Islamic University of Riyadh)
Fasting is full of obligatory and recommended rules and proprieties that every faster must know in order to properly observe this glorious worship which is the fourth pillar of Islam.
Sheikh Ar-Râjhî offers the reader some of them in thirty points.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD - 3 -
1) FAST AS A CAUTION BEFORE THE MONTH OF RAMADAN - 4 -
2) WHEN SHOULD THE INTENT BE FORMULATED? - 5 -
3) EAT OR DRINK Deliberately DURING RAMADAN - 6 -
4) EAT BY FORGOTTEN DURING RAMADAN - 7 -
5) HAVE CHARAL RELATIONSHIPS DURING RAMADAN DAYS - 8 -
6) SLEEP OR LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS DURING THE ENTIRE DAY - 12 -
7) THE INVOLUNTARY EJACULATION - 13 -
8) REMAIN IN A STATE OF MAJOR IMPURITY UNTIL SUNRISE - 13 -
9) THE TRAVELER'S YOUNGER - 15 -
10) THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE SICK PERSON - 16 -
11) BLAMABLE AND PROHIBITED BEHAVIORS DURING RAMADAN - 18 -
12) HASTING THE RUPTURE OF YOUNG PEOPLE - 20 -
13) THE END-NIGHT MEAL (CALLED SAHUR) - 22 -
14) SPOUSAL RELATIONSHIPS: WHAT IS PERMITTED AND WHAT IS NOT - 24 -
15) WHEN YOU SWALLOW SOMETHING INVOLUNTLY - 27 -
16) EAT WHEN YOU DOUBT THE APPEARANCE OF DAWN - 28 -
17) WHAT TO DO WHEN SEEING A PERSON EAT BY FORGOTTEN? - 29 -
18) THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE INCURABLE SICK AND THE ELDERLY PERSON - 30 -
19) CAN I WASH OR PUMP WATER OVER THE HEAD WHEN YOUNG? - 31 -
20) HOW TO RINSE YOUR MOUTH AND SUCK WATER THROUGH THE NOSE? CAN WE TAKE DROPS AND USE “KUHUL”? - 32 -
21) THE STATUS OF THINGS SIMILAR TO FOOD AND DRINK - 34 -
22) BREATHING INCENSE - 35 -
23) VOMITING WHILE YOUNGER - 36 -
24) THE USE OF "SIWAK" DURING YOUNG PEOPLE - 37 -
25) THE ONE WHO APOSTASIES IN A YOUNG STATE - 39 -
26) THE ONE WHO MANIFIES THE FIRM INTENT TO EAT DURING THE DAY - 40 -
27) YOUNG WOMEN IN MENSTRUAL PERIOD - 42 -
28) THE STATUS OF THE MEDICAL BLEEDING (CALLED "HIJAMAH") DURING YOUNG PEOPLE - 46 -
29) WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND OUT POSTERIORI THAT RAMADAN HAS BEGUN? - 50 -
30) THE ONE WHO DIES DURING RAMADAN - 55 -