Fasting in Ramadaan as observed

Cover Page
Title Page
Table of Contents
Publisher\'s Note
Introduction
Chapter 1: Virtues of Fasting
	• Fasting is a shield
	• Fasting causes one to enter Paradise
	• The people who fast are rewarded with immense reward
	• Fasting and the Qur\'aan intercede for a person
	• Fasting is an expiation for various sins
	• Ar-Rayyaan is for those who fast
Chapter 2: Virtues of Ramadaan
	• It is the month of the Qur\'aan
	• Lailatul-Qadr (The Night of Decree)
Chapter 3: The Obligation to Fast in Ramadaan
	• Whoever does extra of his own accord then it is better for him
	• Whoever is resident in the month then let him fast
Chapter 4: Extreme Encouragement to Fast in Ramadaan
	• Forgiveness of sins
	• That supplication (du\'aa) is answered and freedom from the Fire is granted
	• He will be amongst the true followers of the prophets and the martyrs
Chapter 5: Warning Against Failing to Fast in Ramadaan
Chapter 6: The Regulations for Fasting
Chapter 7: At the Approach of Ramadaan
	• Counting the days of Sha\'baan
	• Forbiddance of fasting on the day of doubt
	• Sighting the moon
Chapter 8: The Intention (An-Niyyah)
	• The obligation to have intention for the obligatory fast before the appearance of the true dawn
	• Obligation and requirement depends upon one being able
	• Some scholars disagree and say that such a person has tomake up that fast later
Chapter 9: The Time for Beginning and Ending the Fast
	• The white thread and the black thread
	• The two fajrs
	• Then fast until the night
Chapter 10: The Pre-Dawn Meal (Suhoor)
	• Its wisdom
	• Its excellence
	• Delaying the suhoor
	• Its ruling
Chapter 11: Actions that are to be Avoided While Fasting
	• Falsehood
	• Ignorant and indecent speech
Chapter 12: Actions that are Permitted While Fasting
	• That the Fasting person can begin fasting whilst in the state of janaabah
	• Use of the Tooth-Stick (As-Siwaak)
	• Washing the mouth and nose
	• Embracing and kissing
	• Giving blood and injections which do not provide nourishment
	• Cupping/blood-letting for medical purposes
	• Tasting food
	• Using Kuhl and similar things which enter the eyes
	• Pouring cold water over the head, and taking a bath
Chapter 13: Allaah Wishes Ease for You
	• The traveller
	• The ill
	• Menstruating women and women having post-natal bleeding
	• The frail elderly man and woman
	• The pregnant and breast-feeding women
Chapter 14: Breaking the Fast (Iftoor)
	• When does the fasting person break his fast?
	• Hastening to break the fast
	• With what should one break the fast?
	• What should a person say when breaking the fast?
	• Providing food for a fasting person to break his fast
Chapter 15: Actions Which Nullify the Fast
	• Eating and drinking deliberately
	• Making oneself vomit
	• Menstruation and after-birth bleeding
	• Injections containing nourishment
	• Sexual intercourse
Chapter 16: Atonement (al-Qadaa)
Chapter 17: Expiation (al-Kaffaarah)
Chapter 18: Recompense (al-Fidyah)
Chapter 19: Lailatul-Qadr (The Night of Decree)
	• Its excellence
	• When is it?
	• How should a Muslim seek Lailatul-Qadr?
	• Its signs
Chapter 20: I\'tikaaf
	• Its wisdom
	• Its meaning
	• Its prescription
	• Its preconditions
	• Actions permitted for the one making i\'tikaaf
	• A woman\'s i\'tikaaf, and her visiting her husband in the mosque
Chapter 21: Taraaweeh Prayers
	• Its prescription
	• The number of rak\'ahs
Chapter 22: Zakaatul-Fitr
	• Its ruling
	• Whom is it obligatory upon
	• What is acceptable as zakaatul-fitr
	• Its quantity
	• On whose behalf should a man give it?
	• To whom should it be given?
	• When is it to be given
	• Its wisdom
Chapter 23: Some Oft-Quoted Weak Ahaadeeth
Epilogue
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