or those of you who let the beginning of Ramadan pass without notice, you are most likely unaware of which actions might cause you to break this holy fast. I find this list quite interesting, and I will allow it to speak for itself.
I do question, however, (at the very least) the logic behind number one. How is it that someone could “forget that one is fasting” for long enough to have “sexual intercourse?” It also seems to provide an exception for the involuntary viewing of porn. I find that very confusing and a little troubling.
RAMADAN – What does not break fast
From Madinah Masjid of Carrollton
1. If one forgets that one is fasting and eats, drinks or has sexual intercourse, or has a nocturnal emission while asleep or emits semen involuntarily by looking [at something sex ] (though it is totally haram to see such things)
2. If one applies tincture of iodine or some ointment [even if their tint or smell is noticed in one's saliva or urine].
3. If one vomits a mouthful involuntarily or vomits a little voluntarily.
4. If water goes into ones ear or dust, smoke or a fly goes into one's throat through one's mouth or nose involuntarily or if one cannot prevent the smoke of others cigarettes from going into one's mouth and nose.
5. If after rinsing one's mouth one swallows the wetness remaining in one's mouth together with one's saliva.
6. If one puts some medicine in one's eye or even if one feels its taste in one's throat.
7. If a fasting person swallows his saliva, his fast will not break. Bleeding from an injury in the mouth from taking a tooth out, or blood coming from the stomach to the mouth does not break a fast or an ablution. When one spits out or swallows his blood coming from mouth, if the saliva is greater than the blood, that is if the saliva is yellow in color, his fast is still not broken. If a mouthful comes to the mouth and goes out of the mouth, both are broken. It is seen that, when a tooth is extracted if there is much bleeding, the fast is not broken when one spits it out. When one is not fasting, one's ablution is not broken when one swallows it. Neither of the two is broken if the blood is less than the amount of saliva.
8. Using antimony (surma) or cosmetics for one's beard, moustaches, face, smelling flowers, musks or Lotions will not break one's fast.
I do question, however, (at the very least) the logic behind number one. How is it that someone could “forget that one is fasting” for long enough to have “sexual intercourse?” It also seems to provide an exception for the involuntary viewing of porn. I find that very confusing and a little troubling.
RAMADAN – What does not break fast
From Madinah Masjid of Carrollton
1. If one forgets that one is fasting and eats, drinks or has sexual intercourse, or has a nocturnal emission while asleep or emits semen involuntarily by looking [at something sex ] (though it is totally haram to see such things)
2. If one applies tincture of iodine or some ointment [even if their tint or smell is noticed in one's saliva or urine].
3. If one vomits a mouthful involuntarily or vomits a little voluntarily.
4. If water goes into ones ear or dust, smoke or a fly goes into one's throat through one's mouth or nose involuntarily or if one cannot prevent the smoke of others cigarettes from going into one's mouth and nose.
5. If after rinsing one's mouth one swallows the wetness remaining in one's mouth together with one's saliva.
6. If one puts some medicine in one's eye or even if one feels its taste in one's throat.
7. If a fasting person swallows his saliva, his fast will not break. Bleeding from an injury in the mouth from taking a tooth out, or blood coming from the stomach to the mouth does not break a fast or an ablution. When one spits out or swallows his blood coming from mouth, if the saliva is greater than the blood, that is if the saliva is yellow in color, his fast is still not broken. If a mouthful comes to the mouth and goes out of the mouth, both are broken. It is seen that, when a tooth is extracted if there is much bleeding, the fast is not broken when one spits it out. When one is not fasting, one's ablution is not broken when one swallows it. Neither of the two is broken if the blood is less than the amount of saliva.
8. Using antimony (surma) or cosmetics for one's beard, moustaches, face, smelling flowers, musks or Lotions will not break one's fast.
