* Forgiveness of sins<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n THE Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) urged that one fasts in Ramadan, From Abu Hurairah, radiyallaahu anhu, that the Prophet climbed upon the * That supplication (duaa) is answered and freedom from the Fire is He (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) said: There are in the month of Ramadan From Amr ibn Murrah al-Juhanee, radiyallaahu anhu, who said: A man came to * Warning Against Failing to Fast in Ramadan<\/p>\n Abu Umaamah al-Baahilee, radiyallaahu anhu, said: I heard Allahs Messenger As for what is reported that the Prophet said: He who deliberately fails [This hadith is weak (daeef), not authentic.]<\/p>\n * The Intention (An-Niyyah)<\/p>\n The obligation to have intention for the obligatory fast before the When it is confirmed that the month of Ramadan has commenced, then it is He also said: He who does not intend during the night to fast, then there The place for the intention is the heart, to pronounce it upon the tongue The like of this is reported from the practice of the Companion: So this refers to the optional fast and shows that the obligation of TIME FOR BEGINNING AND ENDING THE FAST<\/p>\n When the Companions of the unlettered Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alayhe From al-Baraa, radiyallaahu anhu, who said: When the companions of the It is made lawful for you to have sexual relations with your wives on the So they were overjoyed, and,<\/p>\n And eat and drink until the white thread (light) of dawn appears to you was also sent down.<\/p>\n This is the cherishing mercy which the Most Kind and Most Merciful gives The fast has a specified time – with specified beginning and end and is * The white thread and the black thread<\/p>\n When the aforementioned Aayah was sent down, some of the Companions of the From Adiyy ibn Haatim, radiyallaahu anhu, who said: When,<\/p>\n Until the white thread appears to you distinct from the black thread.<\/p>\n was sent down I took a black and a white camel tether and placed them [Reported by al-Bukhaaree (4\/113) and Muslim (no 1090). The narration (*Taken from Fasting in Ramadan as observed by the Prophet, by Shaikh <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 by\u00a0 Shaikh Saleem al-Hilaalee and Shaikh Alee Hasan Alee Abdul-Hameed \u00a0 * Forgiveness of sins THE Prophet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) urged that one fasts in Ramadan, explaining its excellence and high station,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[39,277],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramadhan","tag-fasting","tag-ramadhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nexplaining its excellence and high station, such that if the fasting
\nperson had sins as many as the foam upon the sea, then they would be
\nforgiven for him through this pure and blessed act of worship. From Abu
\nHurairah, radiyallaahu anhu, from the Prophet who said: He who fasts
\nRamadan, due to eemaan and hoping for reward (from Allah) then his
\nprevious sins are forgiven.<\/p>\n
\nmimbar (pulpit) and said: Aameen [O Allah grant it], aameen, aameen. So it
\nwas said, O Messenger of Allah, you climbed upon the mimbar and said,
\naameen, aameen, aameen? So he said: Indeed Jibraaeel, alayhis salaam, came
\nto me and said, Whoever reaches the month of Ramadan and does not have
\n[his sins] forgiven and so enters the Fire, then may Allah distance him,
\nsay aameen So I said: aameen …<\/p>\n
\ngranted<\/p>\n
\nin every day and night those to whom Allah grants freedom from the Fire,
\nand there is for every Muslim a supplication which he can make and will be
\ngranted .
\n
\n* He will be amongst the true followers of the prophets and the martyrs<\/p>\n
\nthe Prophet and said: O Messenger of Allah what if I testify that none has
\nthe right to be worshipped but Allah and that you are the Messenger of
\nAllah, and I observe the five daily prayers, and I pay the Zakat, and I
\nfast and stand in prayer in Ramadan, then amongst whom shall I be? He
\nsaid: Amongst the true followers of the prophets and the martyrs.<\/p>\n
\nsay: Whilst I was sleeping two men came to me and took hold of my arms and
\nbrought me to a steep mountain and said: climb so I said: I am not able
\nto. So they said: We will make it easy for you. So I climbed until came to
\nthe summit of the mountain where I heard terrible cries, so I said: what
\nare these cries? They said: That is the howling of the people of the Fire.
\nThen they took me further on until came to a people who were strung up by
\ntheir hamstrings, with their jawbones torn and flowing with blood, so I
\nsaid: who are these. He said: Those who break their fast before the time
\nat which they may do so.<\/p>\n
\nto fast a day of Ramadan even if he were to fast forever it would not
\nmake up for it.<\/p>\n
\nappearance of the true dawn<\/p>\n
\nobligatory upon every Muslim upon whom the Shariah rulings are binding to
\nintend to fast until the night, as the Prophet said: He who does not
\nresolve to fast before it is Fajr, then there is no fast for him.<\/p>\n
\nis no fast for him.<\/p>\n
\nis an innovation (bidah) and misguidance – even if the people think it to
\nbe good. The necessity of having intention from the night is particular to
\nobligatory fasts since the Messenger used to come to Aaisha, radiyallaahu
\nanhaa, at times other than Ramadan and say, Do you have any food? If not,
\nthen I am fasting.<\/p>\n
\nAbud-Dardaa, Abu Talhah, Abu Hurairah, Ibn Abbaas and Hudaifah ibn
\nal-Yamaan, radiyallaahu anhum, and may Allah raise us up amongst them
\nbeneath the flag of the nobles of the children of Aadam.<\/p>\n
\nhaving intention before the appearance of the true drawn is for the
\nobligatory fast – and Allah the Most High knows best.<\/p>\n
\nwa sallam) fasted and the time for breaking the fast came, then they would
\neat, drink and cohabit with their wives as long as they didnt fall asleep.
\nIf one of them fell asleep before eating the evening meal then it was not
\npermissible to do any of that until the next evening. Then the Mercy of
\ntheir Lord, the All-Powerful, the Bestower, enveloped them and allowance
\nwas made for them, and they were overjoyed this is explained in the
\nfollowing hadith:<\/p>\n
\nProphet fasted and it became time to break the fast, if one of them slept
\nbefore eating, then he would not eat that night, nor the next day until
\nevening. Once Qays ibn Sirmah al-Ansaaree was fasting, so when it was time
\nto break the fast he came to his wife and said to her, Do you have any
\nfood? She said: No, but I will go and seek some for you. He used to work
\nduring the day so sleep overtook him, then his wife came and when she saw
\nhim she said, You have missed it. Then in the middle of the next day he
\nfainted, and that was mentioned to the Prophet, so this Aayah was sent
\ndown (which means):<\/p>\n
\nnight of the fasts.<\/p>\n
\ndistinct from the black thread (darkness of night).<\/p>\n
\nabundantly to His humble servants who say: We hear and we obey, we ask for
\nYour forgiveness our Lord, and to you we return.<\/p>\n
\nfrom the appearance of Fajr until the daytime ends, the night begins and
\nthe suns disc is hidden by the horizon.<\/p>\n
\nProphet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) took black camel tethers and white
\nones and placed them beneath their pillows, or (one) tied them to his foot
\nand would continue eating and drinking until he could distinguish them.<\/p>\n
\nbeneath my pillow, and during the night I would look to see but they didnt
\nappear any different to each other, so in the morning I went to the
\nProphet (sallallahu alayhe wa sallam) and informed him, so he said: Rather
\nit is the blackness of night and the whiteness of dawn.<\/p>\n
\napparently shows that Adiyy was present when this Aayah was sent down,
\nwhich means that he was a Muslim at the time. However, this is not the
\ncase, since fasting was made obligatory in the second year after the
\nHijrah, and Adiyy accepted Islam in the ninth or tenth year as occurs in
\nal-Isaabah (2\/468). So either we say that the Aayah was sent down very
\nmuch later on and this is very unlikely, or that explain the saying of
\nAdiyy: When it was sent down, to mean When I accepted Islam and this Aayah
\nwas recited to me. And this is what is correct due to the narration of
\nAhmad in his Musnad (4\/377): Allahs Messenger taught me the prayer and
\nfasting, he said: Pray such and such, and fast and when the sun sets then
\neat and drink until the white thread is clear to you from the black
\nthread, and fast for 30 days unless you see the new moon before that so I
\ntook two threads of wool, one black and one white … (the hadith).
\nabridged from Fathul-Baaree (4\/132-133).]<\/p>\n
\nSaleem al-Hilaalee and Shaikh Alee Hasan Alee Abdul-Hameed)<\/p>\n