Ramadan: What Spoils The Fast And What Does Not

What Spoils Fasting?

Answer:

The spoilers of fasting are as follows:

1- Sexual intercourse

2- Eating

3- Drinking

4- Ejaculation of semen with desire

5- What may be regarded as (a substitute for) food and drink

6- Intentional vomiting

7- Blood coming out (of the body) by means of cupping

8- Blood coming out during menstrual and post-partum periods


What does not Spoil fasting?

1. Tasting food without swallowing it.

2. Taking a bath during fasting.

3. Wet Dreams.

4. Involuntary vomiting.

5. Whatever enters the throat by mistake and not of one's choice e.g flies, dusts, etc.

6. Unintentional Bleeding eg nose bleed, wounds, etc.

7. Eating out of forgetfulness.


8. Eating when having doubt about the Sahoor time(whether dawn has broken or not).

9. Waking up in a state of Janaabah (post sexual-intercourse impurity) due to a wet dream or sexual intercourse at night does not invalidate fasting.

8. If a person thinks that the sun has set because of clouds or the like and breaks the fast and then it turns out that the sun has not set, he should resume fasting and does not have to make up for this day.