All About Fasting






You can browse all fasting resources here or check out the topics below:

Children and Fasting
When Should Children Begin Fasting?

Command to Fast
Why do we fast? - resources containing the ayaat that prescribe the fast of Ramadan.

Exemption from Fasting
Due to sickness or travel

Fasting 6 Days in the Month of Shawwaal

Duaas for Breaking the Fast

Iftaar
Breaking the fast at sunset

Imsak
False practice of stopping sahoor at a predetermined time

Intention to fast during Ramadan
Does it need to be made everyday?

Suhoor
Taking the predawn meal (sahoor) before fasting

What Breaks the Fast? - a collection of resources regarding things that break the fast

Women and Fasting

    Lessons /Readings on Fasting

    Adults


    Fiqh Course: A Guide to Fasting - Audio lectures: "From the 2008 Summer Courses, 12 lectures focused on The Book of Fasting from Sunan Abee Daawood and Imaam Ibn Baaz's Rulings on Fasting (Majmoo' al-Fataawee)"

    Nature of Fasting, Shaykhul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah - "This book will help the reader better understand the fine points about fasting. like; What is the nature of the things that break the fast? What are the rules by which one can know the difference between what breaks the fast and what does not."

    A Concise Guide to Fasting - Taken from the works of the great scholars Muḥammad b. Badr  al-Dīn Balbān [d. 1083 AH], and Dr. Ṣāliḥ b. Fawzān al-Fawzān

      Kids

      Fasting in Ramadan for Kids - lessons for kids from Authentic-Translations.com" - This article contains translations in very simple English and thus is intended for younger readers or anyone simply wanting a smooth reading article."
      Lessons on Fasting for Kids - from IslamTheBasics

      Miscellaneous Kids
      Fasting in Ramadan Tab book - use this tab book to record important details about fasting; great review aid.


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