Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Do I Have to Fast if I Am in My Final Trimester of Pregnancy

			That depends late pregnancy, it
depends on your situation. There's
		

			many women who do foster in that
time. And there's some women who
		

			can't. If you ask the normal
doctor, they'll tell you don't do
		

			it. Even if you're an early
pregnancy, they'll tell you don't
		

			do it right. Because for them,
it's just like, protect the baby,
		

			they don't understand any aspect
of religion.
		

			I would say go with experience,
what that means is first consult a
		

			dietitian, about foods that are
helpful, that that are helpful to
		

			keep your energy up this is
everybody should do that, I think
		

			right, just to stop you feeling
weak and miserable throughout the
		

			day. Number two, there's lots of
the older women of the community,
		

			they know all of these special
foods that, you know, like Matey,
		

			as I think is good for, especially
for women who are producing milk,
		

			right? There's lots of these kinds
of foods that are supposed to
		

			produce milk or to produce energy
or something like that, then what
		

			I would suggest is you try to keep
one or two fast, and then if you
		

			feel that you're just getting
totally knocked out and it's not
		

			working, or this is if you've got
a healthy pregnancy.
		

			Then after that, if you have to
miss a fast in between Mr. Fast,
		

			right?
		

			If you've got a
		

			not a healthy pregnancy, that and
he's got a high risk pregnancy of
		

			some sort, and you know this, then
then, you know, you'll have more
		

			of a leeway just to give it up.
It's just what you have to try to
		

			strike a balance between getting
the reward, because you have to
		

			remember, we're not the only
people who fast in this heat. Yes,
		

			we have longer heat a longer time,
but our heat is nothing in
		

			comparison, it's 20 degrees less
than what it is in Saudi Arabia,
		

			and in other parts of the world.
Right. Okay. They don't have as
		

			long days, but the heat is much
more and they have no facilities,
		

			they had no facility now mashallah
there are more facilities than we
		

			do. But in those days, they had no
facility. So it's not like you
		

			know, where the new creation of
God in this time and age who
		

			having all these difficulties that
people have had difficulties and
		

			so on. So it would be a balance
between the two that you have to
		

			strike. There is leeway for them
if they have a high risk pregnancy
		

			or something of that nature.