Fasting in fiqh | Ahkam as-siyam and Ramadan in Arabic

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What the fiqh of fasting covers

A chapter short in appearance, half of whose questions in fact turn on a single point: what breaks the fast and what does not. The works on this shelf cover the intention and the start of the month, the invalidators, the exemptions of the ill, the traveller, the pregnant or nursing woman, qada and kaffara, the voluntary fasts of the year, and i'tikaf.

What you will find

The works devoted to Ramadan, gathering the fiqh of fasting, the night prayers and the practices of the month in one volume.
The extracted chapters from the treatises, for the particular cases and the differences between schools.
The fatwas on medical procedures: a drip, an inhaler, a blood test, anaesthesia. This is the most requested part, and the older treatises do not cover it.
The works on i'tikaf: conditions, place, what interrupts it.
The collections of voluntary fasts: Monday and Thursday, the six of Shawwal, Ashura, Arafa.

The medical question, to check before buying

If your need concerns a treatment or a medical procedure, take a recent work or a fatwa collection: a classical manual reasons about the cases of its own time and will mention neither inhaler nor drip. We state the year of publication and the presence of a medical section on the product page.

What to check

The presence of a section on medical cases. The school, since the invalidators and the scale of the kaffara differ. The takhrij, the chapter resting largely on hadiths. And the format, many of these books being made to be read during the month.

Related shelves

For the night prayers of the month, Prayer. For the supplications attached to fasting, Supplications and dhikr. For recent cases in general, Fatwas and contemporary issues. For zakat al-fitr, Zakat. Overview: Fiqh.

Order and shipping

Real stock displayed, dispatch within 24 to 48 working hours, delivery to France, Europe and the rest of the world. If your question is medical, say so: we will point to the titles that treat those cases.

Are medical procedures covered?

Not in the classical manuals, which reason about the cases of their own time. For a drip, an inhaler, a blood test or anaesthesia, you need a recent work or a fatwa collection. We state the year of publication and the presence of a medical section on the product page.

Are the exemptions for women covered?

Yes: menstruation, post-natal period, pregnancy and nursing, with the detail of making up the days and, depending on the case, of compensation. The Women in Islam shelf also gathers the collections devoted entirely to these questions.

What exactly is the kaffara?

The compensation due in certain cases of breaking the fast, distinct from simply making up the day. Its scale and the cases where it applies differ by school, and it is one of the points where a comparative manual helps. The works here detail it chapter by chapter.

Are the voluntary fasts included?

Yes: Monday and Thursday, the six days of Shawwal, Ashura, the day of Arafa, and the days on which fasting is discouraged or forbidden. Some collections are devoted entirely to them, with the texts and their degree of authenticity for each.

Does i'tikaf belong here?

Yes, the treatises place it at the end of the fasting chapter, and works are devoted to it: conditions, place, duration, what interrupts it, and what may be done during it. It is the most requested part as the last ten days approach.

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