Abdullah Oduro – 5 Pillars Made Plain – Who Should Fast

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah here. But to catch him in the Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you
all. I'm Abdullah oduro. And welcome, who is fasting obligatory upon.
		

			We say fasting is obligatory upon every sane, mature Muslim. And we talked about that the one that
is sane, mature, and Muslim, because when Allah subhanaw taala starts off the verse that we talked
about earlier, when he says, Oh, you who believe that fasting has been prescribed upon you, as it
was upon the people before you, perhaps you may be of the mindful ones. So when looking at this, we
divided into three categories of the ones that are sane, mature, and Muslim. There are three general
exceptions. The first category is of those that are allowed to break their fast but must make it up.
Now those are of types. The first one is the traveler. The second is the sick person. And the third
		

			can be the one who is pregnant and breastfeeding at the same time. So when we look at the sick, the
one that is sick, it's a sickness that is unbearable, you know, the sickness that would make you
call into work truthfully, the one that a migraine headache, you know, something that you cannot
handle, if you have the flu, the common cold that has reached an unbearable level, that is where you
are allowed to break your fast, but you must make it up, the timeframe that you have for making up
these fasts are the rest of the 11 months after the month of Ramadan. So if you've, you know, broke
your fast for three, four days or a week, then you have seven days to make up, you have the 11
		

			months till the next Ramadan. To make that up, the traveler is the second category, and the traveler
is the one that goes to another city. And what what constitutes traveling is where a person leaves
their civilization or their habitat, which is generally characterized by the absence of buildings
and of residential homes. So when you're traveling, for instance, you know, we're in a city in the
south, if you were to go to, you know, from Dallas to Houston, when you see the absence of
buildings, and you see wilderness, you see mountains, you see gas stations that, you know, no one
lives around there. Now you know that you are a traveler, to where in praying, you're able to
		

			shorten your prayers. And here in the month of Ramadan, you do not have to fast you can break your
fast, even when you reach your destination that you are traveling to, you don't have to fast you can
be someone that eats and drinks regularly and be intimate regularly. The third category is the
person that is pregnant or breastfeeding, if they fear for themselves, or if they fear for their
child, or if they fear for both themselves and their child, if they were to fast, primarily,
ideally, if it is confirmed by a physician not to do so then they can break their fast but they have
to make it up and the remainder of the 11 months, if possible. inshallah Tada. The second group of
		

			people are the ones that are not allowed to fast, and they do have to make it up. And those are the
primarily the women that are on their menses, during the time of their menses, as we know, they are
not allowed to pray, and they don't have to make their prayers up. But for Ramadan, the days that
they missed in Ramadan, they, they are not allowed to fast and they have to make those days up.
They're not allowed to fast and they have to make those days up. And also any individual that is
have an unbearable sickness, they're not allowed to fast because Allah Subhana Allah mentions that
you should not use your hands for your own destruction. If more than one reliable physician tells
		

			you, you cannot fast do not fast, then in this situation, you are not allowed to fast and you should
make those days up. The third category are the individuals that it is allowed to break your fast and
you don't have to make those days up and depending on the condition, then you may it may not be
allowed for you too fast, you may fall into the second category depending what do we mean by that
the elderly person is the first category The one who is elderly and has been told by a physician
that you cannot fast because of your your chronic condition your situation to where you will have to
eat you have to get your sugar intake, you know, whatever the case may be to reconfirm that you have
		

			to take a certain amount of medicine, maybe insulin or something of this nature, some type of
something that gives you nourishes you, then you cannot fast or it's allowed for you to not fast,
but you do not have to make the days up but you have to feed a poor person.
		

			Every day missed, it's preferable to feed the poor person upon the commencement of Missouri prayer
when people are breaking their fast, that is when you can go and feed a poor person for everyday
miss being 30 days now, the way that you can do that are numerous. You can either wait till the end
of Ramadan and feed 34 people and have a feast at your home and feed 30 poor people or you can feed
a person for every day at the end of that particular day.
		

			Or you can feed one person, the amount of 30 people in food. Now this is another good opportunity
for you to give dour or tell people about Islam and telling them that this is what Islam orders me
to do. This is what is prescribed upon me. And this is how I come closer to God and show thanks and
gratitude towards him. So in summary, those are the three categorizations of the people that have to
fast firstly we said it it has to be a mature sane Muslim, and of those three that are the
exceptions that in this categories are the one that is allowed to break their fast but they have to
make up the one that is obliged to break their fast and they have to make them up and the one that
		

			is allowed to break their fast and they don't have to make it up they have to feed a poor person for
everyday missed We ask Allah subhana wa tada to make you have those that abide by his Sharia by the
law of Islam and understand that the law of Islam is a means of coming closer to him in this
beautiful beautiful month as salaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Thank you