Mirza Yawar Baig – Ramadan 2024 Reminders #26

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speaker discusses the issue of missing fasting during Islam's practice. They explain that fasting is a pillar of Islam and cannot be missed, but it is possible to pay someone else to fast on their behalf. If they cannot fast for some temporary time, they must make up the missed fast after the period. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fasting for health reasons and warns that it is dangerous to travel or become sick.

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			The, question with regard to
		
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			kafara or Fidya.
		
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			The 2 words.
		
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			Kafara is
		
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			when there is a
		
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			mistake,
		
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			and making amends for the mistake is like
		
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			paying a fine.
		
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			So if you break your fast deliberately,
		
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			right, unknowingly,
		
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			the fast does not break.
		
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			While you are fasting, if you forgetfully eat
		
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			something, the fast does not break.
		
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			So there's something to remember. Obviously, you should
		
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			be careful, but if you happen to eat
		
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			something
		
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			because you forgot forgetfully,
		
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			then the fast is still intact. As soon
		
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			as Saddam said, complete the fast.
		
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			But if you deliberately break the fast,
		
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			then the
		
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			kafara for that is to
		
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			release pay for the reliefs of our slave
		
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			or
		
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			to fast
		
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			continuously for
		
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			60 days
		
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			for every fast that you break. This is
		
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			to understand the seriousness of that. Right?
		
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			Fast for 60 days continuously,
		
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			meaning, of course, you take suhoor and iftarbat,
		
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			meaning one after the other 60 days.
		
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			Or if you are physically incapable of that,
		
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			meaning if you are sick and so on.
		
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			It's not a question of saying, oh, I
		
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			feel tired. I know. But if you are
		
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			physically,
		
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			medically incapable
		
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			of that, then to feed 60 people. So
		
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			this is the kafar, but,
		
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			usually the question is about fidya,
		
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			which is
		
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			subwah. What can you pay
		
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			in case you cannot fast?
		
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			Now two things to understand. First of all,
		
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			when you say cannot fast,
		
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			cannot fast permanently. So So some medical condition
		
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			because of which you cannot fast from now
		
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			until you die. For example, people have very
		
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			high,
		
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			diabetes, very severe diabetes or something like this,
		
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			some heart problem and so on where the
		
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			doctors have said, look, you cannot fast. It
		
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			is dangerous to your life. Now in such
		
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			a case,
		
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			it is possible to pay somebody else to
		
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			fast on your behalf, and the figure for
		
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			that is to pay them for suhoor and
		
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			iftar
		
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			for the whole month.
		
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			Right? You do that every year throughout your
		
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			life.
		
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			But if the fasting cannot be done
		
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			for some temporary time,
		
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			for example, a nursing mother, for example, through
		
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			the women when they have their periods. For
		
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			example, if a person if a lady has
		
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			given birth to a child just then,
		
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			and so she can't fast.
		
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			Those days, you cannot pay for this.
		
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			Those days have to be made up after
		
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			Ramadan is over. So once Ramadan is over,
		
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			then she can fast, and this would be
		
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			the hada
		
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			fast for the ones that she missed,
		
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			during Ramadan. The same thing applies to a
		
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			man for whatever medical reason. If cannot fast
		
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			or if he's travelling, he cannot fast, then
		
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			he must make that up after Ramadan
		
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			is over.
		
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			I hope this is clear as far as
		
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			the issue
		
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			of missing of fasting is concerned.
		
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			Fasting is a pillar of Islam.
		
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			Deliberately, we cannot miss it. It is not
		
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			possible to do that, so please make sure
		
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			that we fast
		
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			correctly and at the correct time.