Faith IQ – Does Watching Haraam Videos Break My Fast

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Does watching Haram videos break our fast? What is the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ that sheds light on this aspect? What should be the goal of fasting?

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi provides answers…

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The speaker discusses the concept of fasting and how it can lead to embarrassment and penalization. They caution against avoiding fasting and overdoing it, as it can harm the fast and lead to problems. The speaker also mentions a video about the "vanilla" effect of fasting and encourages caution.

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			watching how long videos break your fast
		
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			do you brothers and sisters the purpose of animal Vaughn is of course to overcome these desires to
fight our temptations. And our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that it is possible that a
person has only gained from his fast hunger and thirst that the fast is not accepted. And some of
the early scholars would say the easiest part of fasting is to abstain from food and drink, meaning
the more difficult part of fasting is to abstain from sins. And therefore, the goal of fasting is to
control our eyes to control our tongue to control our hands, hands if a stuffed foot a lot your eyes
wander and they see the how long if you do things that are not permissible, you are in severe
		
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			jeopardy of penalizing and obliterating the rewards of your fasting. There's a severe severe crisis
there that you are close to destroying the good deeds with your own hands. And I would strongly
encourage and cautious caution you to avoid such things. Technically, technically, the fast will
officially break when you eat or when you drink or when * occurs that will break the fast
you eat or drink intentionally or * occurs and it is caused by you or by a spouse then the
fast will break. Otherwise things that are lesser than this will affect the the reward of the fast
but they will not invalidate the fast and May Allah subhanho wa Taala make it easy for you and for
		
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			me to perfect our fast