Zakir Naik – Conditions That Make Fasting Obligatory

			There are five conditions to be fulfilled, to make fasting obligated on any person. Number one is he
or she should be a Muslim. Number two, the person should be sane. Number three, he or she should
have reached the age of puberty. That means he or she should be added as number four, the person
should be healthy. Number five, the person should not be in a state of traveling, he or she
shouldn't be settled. There are additional four conditions for a female to be fulfilled. If it's a
woman, if it's a lady, if it's a female, there are additional four conditions to be fulfilled to
make it obligated on her. Number one is that she should not be menstruating. She should not be in a
		

			position where she has postnatal bleeding. She should not be breastfeeding and she should not be
pregnant. So for a woman, if all these nine conditions are fulfilled, then it becomes obligated to
honor and for the meal. Only the first I condition have to be fulfilled to make it compulsory for
them to fast in the month of Ramadan.