Shadee Elmasry – 6 Pillars of Fasting

There are essentially only two pillars to fasting. And they are

intention

and abstinence from what we call Mufti rods, you see the word

if.in. There, it moves the rods is that which would break the fast.

So let's talk first about the intention, you we have to make the

intention that we are fasting the month of Ramadan. And that

intention done once is sufficient. And you do that at the beginning

of the month before the first day of fasting. So So who would have

the first day of fasting, okay, you make the intention for the

entire month. But if you travel, you would need to make the

intention and we're going to discuss this in the section on

travel. You need to make the intention that I'm going to be

fasting or I'm not going to be fasting on this day. And when you

come back you need to redo the intention that you will be fasting

from here on out.

And then absence of sorry, abstinence did I say absence,

abstinence from Mufti rot, which means the that you were avoiding

the things that we're going to discuss that break the fast