What Actually Breaks Your Fast?

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The stuff of nightmares.

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It's nice having so many people for fud, right? We usually have this amount, a little less. You know what's interesting about this? We could do it every day, you know. Yeah. I mean, that option is always there. Mashallah. Lots of sisters here, you know. I'm just saying the masjid is open the same way year round and you know just food for thought. Continuing in the book of fasting and we are in the subchapter regarding those things which are permissible for a person who is fasting. Often times these things are somewhat confused. Sometimes people are a little bit overly cautious when they're fasting. They are afraid to engage in normal activities that they would otherwise engage in for fear that it would somehow compromise their fasting. When I was in the Caribbean, there was some custom down there going on and and there's a lot of Muslims down there. It's not a little bit. And Islam has been there a lot longer than it has here in America. it's somewhere around 12 to 15% Muslims, right? So huge. But you know, Trinidad is a is an island. Tobago is an island and a lot of people they work as fishermen, a lot of people work as divers, a lot of people work as and one of the ideas that was you know, interestingly enough, very widespread was that it was impermissible for a person fasting to submerge himself or herself in water past their navl. Anything beyond this, you broke your fast. So you go into water that is to your chest, your fast is broken. And they believe this to the point that when I told them, this doesn't affect your fast at all. As a matter of fact, you can continue to dive to swim. And I even went with them to swim. I had to prove it. go into the water. Right. They were shocked. Shocked that this is okay. It's okay to dunk your head in water. Yes. Dunk your head, you know, swim completely, etc. , and so a lot of times things begin as a custom or what we call or refer to in America as an old wife's tale, right? And they catch on to where they almost become fact. And this is for this reason this chapter and these kinds of chapters exist and they are very important because our prophet sallall.aii wasallam went out of his way to show the companions what was permissible and what was impermissible. what would break your fast and what would not. So one of the things that is permissible for a person who is fasting is not only bathing but bathing for thee with the intention of cooling off or trying to relieve some of the thirst that a person may feel. Bathing not just to clean yourself, not just for but bathing for the purpose of of cooling off.

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Salatb Abbas anisam to whom? And so Abu Bakr Abdman he's one of the he narrates that one of the prophet's companions says.

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Medina. So this companion narrates that he witnessed the messenger of Allah sallall.aii wasallam in an area called Arj. This is a small village a few days out a few days travel from Medina that he had gotten very hot or he had gotten very thirsty while he was fasting and he was witnessed taking water bucket of water and pouring it on his head from thirst or from heat sai. So this narration is the evidence that the faukah used that it is permissible for a person to cool off by a way of bathing. And it gets even more it gets deeper. The next point that the author mentions Foreign.

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So the next is that a person rinse his mouth and his nose without taking the water too far back into his mouth or in to his nose to the point that it would get to his throat. Right? Exactly as we would do in wudoo. This would be for the purpose of wudoo or this would be for the purpose of cleanliness or this would be for any other reason. It is permissible for a person to rinse out his mouth, put water in his mouth, put water in his nose without exaggerating that to the point that it would reach into a person's throat or into a person's nose. Sometimes there are some statements that some of the have made it's not permissible to take anything into the mouth that goes beyond the letter where comes from. However, there's really no evidence for this. And what the prophet sallallahiuh wasallam said is not to exaggerate. That's all he said. And so a person is not to exaggerate in taking this water into his mouth or nose but it is permissible and this also is an evidence that the mouth has the ruling of being outside of the body. Likewise, the in inside of the nose has the ruling of being outside of the body. And this is going to come into play in a moment, inshallah.

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And the messenger of Allah S.A.I. was teaching him how to was teaching him how to make woo. And one of his instructions was, "And take the water deep, snort the water deeply into your nose unless you are fasting." So what do we understand from unless you are fasting? Meaning if you're fasting, do not snort the water deeply. snort it into your nose but not deeply to where it goes into the sinuses and then empties back into the throat. Likewise with respect to now if we are to understand that the mouth and nose have the ruling of being outside of the body. Then this is an interesting point because what if a person were to spit something up into his mouth and then swallow it back? Would that break his fast? Well, here we have a couple of a couple of scenarios. One, it is something that's coming from the from the nose. You know how a person clears his his I don't know what's this area called back here but clears this out and would usually swallow it or spit it out. Would this be something that breaks a person's fast? Likewise, if a person is spitting something up from here, fleg that comes up, you would usually spit it out. But if they were to swallow it back, will these two things break a person's fast? And the correct opinion of the fukah is that neither of these two will break a person's fast. But then this brings back the question which is didn't we just say that the mouth and nose have the ruling of being outside the body? We will say the mouth and nose follow the source. Meaning if something comes originates from inside then the mouth and nose have the ruling of being part of the inside. And if something originates from the outside the mouth and nose have the ruling of being that which is outside. And this is what is referred to by the scholars as and this has its rulings throughout the Quran and Sunnah. For instance, it's connected, right? Where it comes from is where it gets its ruling. So, for instance, it is impermissible for a person for a man to look at a woman that he's not married to or is not related to, right, with desire. Okay, this is a person is to lower his gaze. Correct. Well, what about to just look at her dress or what about just to look at her shoes? That's not part of her body, right? Or or we could reverse the genders. This is not the point. We would say no. Anything that is connected to her has the same ruling. Right? But now let's reverse it. What if that same dress was on a rack at a store? Or if that hair were to be cut and disconnected, then a person could look at that. Why? Because it is disconnected. So these things they don't exist on their own. We can have another example. For instance, it's not permissible to buy something. It's not permissible to buy something that you don't know what you're buying. Right? This is called and this is impermissible in Islam. If I say to you, for instance, I have a closed box. I say buy this surprise box for $10. Right? You could have something that's worth 25 cents in it. could have something that's worth $25 in it. This is an impermissible sale. It's not permissible until you can clearly see what the merchandise is. But how about if I were to purchase an animal that is pregnant? Well, now it takes the ruling of the animal that you're purchasing. Correct? Because it is mutas. It is connected. This is where the scholars get these rulings. So back to how we put these principles into action, we have something that is flem. It comes from inside the body, right? Whether it comes from the throat or it comes from the nose. This is inside of the body. If it makes its way into the mouth and then the person swallows it back, this will not break a person's fast. Why? Because now the mouth takes the ruling of what? Of the inside of the body. However, if something were to come from outside and make its way into the mouth and a person were to swallow it, this would break your fast. Why? Because it takes the ruling of what? the outside because I'll give you a good example now. What about if a person stuck his tongue out? Think about it. You have saliva on your on your tongue, right? If you stick your tongue out and then pull your tongue back in and then swallow that saliva, do you break your fast? Yes, you break your fast, Jimmy. Yeah. So, it is impermissible to stick your tongue out when you're fasting. Should we surmise this? Do you understand? So what what does this mean? This means that that saliva that is on your tongue, it takes the ruling of what? What is already inside of the body? Even though it comes out of the mouth. However, if you were to put that same saliva onto your finger and then put it back into your mouth, that would break your fast, wouldn't it? Yes, it would. Which is why the scholars mention the least of breaking a person's fast, right? One of the one of the Okay. The next thing is al another thing that will not break a person's fast and we'll we'll end with this one inshallah. The next thing that will not break a person's fast is al hij is cupping. Cupping. Cupping that takes place Islamic cupping. Okay. When we say hij cupping is only when a person uses a blade. This is called cupping.

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And so cupping has to be with cutting. There has to it has to involve pulling out blood. We and why am I saying this? Because in the west now popularly in the last few years this thing has cut on cut this thing has caught on where it's a kind of light cupping where they will take the the actual cup and they will apply it to places where you would usually have the cupping done and they will apply the suction but then they won't cut it after that. They'll just make it suck and then they'll take it off and leave it that. That's not hij that's not considered hij involving what? Cutting. You have to cut and pull that blood out. This is called hijama. And when was given to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam? Huh? Come on guys. What' you say? Very good. A lot of you were here when we talked about this that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam came back with two things. One was the five salawat and two was hijam. Now is a prophetic medicine is a prophetic medicine is actually a profound medicine and is it something that will break a person's fast? Well, Iban Abbas narrates in Sah Bkari and this is one of the three narrations that are debated amongst the scholars of hadith only three. This is one of them.

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The scholars have differed on this narration but it is authentic as it is and that is that Iban AB best narrates that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam did al while he was fasting. He did al while he was fasting and there is another narration that is abregated mans in which the prophet sallall.aii said that the one who does the cupping and the one who receives the cupping both break their fast. This is an authentic narration but the narration is abregated. This was earlier and later that was abregated by the narration we just heard. person may say we understand why a person fasting might have their fast compromised by cupping but why is it the one who performs the cupping is his fast broken imagine this you come to me let's say Adam here he comes he says I want you to do hijama for me I say I got you don't worry so I do hij for him based on this narration My fast is broken and his fast is broken. Well, we understand his fast is broken because something's being drawn from his body. There's something physical going on there. But why is my fast broken? And the answer is that the way that they used to do cupping in the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam's time is that the one doing the cupping would actually use his mouth to suck the blood a siphon. We know how siphons work, right? Once you get the liquid, come on, man. Our our masid didn't win the science fair, right? A siphon. So once you get the liquid a path started for liquid other liquid will follow because liquid follows the path of least resistance. Whatever the point is is that usually they would get this started by using their mouth to start that sucking process. And in the process, most of the time doing it that way, you will get blood into the back of your throat. And so for this reason, the prophet sallall.aii wasallam said that both the person doing and receiving the cupping have broken their fast. But if a person does the cupping by way of fire, then it will not break as fast. Or by way of suction, now we have fancy gadgets that do it. This will not break a person's fast but now even receiving cupping will not break your fast. We're going to pick this up again tomorrow inshallah because it's a very important point and a lot of other things are going to be based on this but we will end there again tonight we will be completing the Quran inshallah and we have you know a very nice event lined up. Please come out and be here and you know be with us for this celebration.

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It's getting really fast.

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