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Muslims living in the world’s southernmost countries, such as Chile or New Zealand, will fast for about 12 hours, while those living in northernmost countries, such as Iceland or Greenland. During the entire month of Ramadan , Muslims are obligated to fast Arabic : صوم , sawm ; Persian : روزہ, rozeh , every day from dawn to sunset. Fasting requires the abstinence from sex, food, drinking, and smoking.
Fasting the month of Ramadān was made obligatory wājib during the month of Sha'ban , in the second year after the Muslims migrated from Mecca to Medina. Fasting for the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Fasting during the month of Ramadan is specifically mentioned in four verses of the Qur'an :. O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may learn self-restraint.
Fasting for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed number Should be made up from days later.
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For those who can do it With hardship , is a ransom, the feeding of one that is indigent. But he that will give more, of his own free will,- it is better for him. And it is better for you that you fast, if you only knew. Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed as a guide for humanity with clear proofs of guidance and the decisive authority. So whoever is present this month, let them fast. But whoever is ill or on a journey, then let them fast an equal number of days after Ramadan.
Allah intends ease for you, not hardship, so that you may complete the prescribed period and proclaim the greatness of Allah for guiding you, and perhaps you will be grateful. It has been made permissible for you to be intimate with your wives during the nights preceding the fast. Your spouses are a garment for you as you are for them. Allah knows that you were deceiving yourselves.
So He has accepted your repentance and pardoned you. So now you may be intimate with them and seek what Allah has prescribed for you. You may eat and drink until you see the light of dawn breaking the darkness of night, then complete the fast until nightfall. Do not be intimate with your spouses while you are meditating in the mosques. These are the limits set by Allah, so do not exceed them. This is how Allah makes His revelations clear to people, so they may become mindful of Him.
Eating, drinking, and sexual activities are not allowed between dawn fajr , and sunset maghrib. Fasting is considered an act of deeply personal worship in which Muslims seek a raised level of closeness to God. It helps them acknowledge Allah as the source of all sustenance. All obscene and irreligious stimuli are to be avoided as the purity of both thought and action is important. This helps them develop a higher conscience of mindfulness of Allah.
Although fasting at Ramadan is fard obligatory , exceptions are made for persons in particular circumstances.
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Pre-pubescent children are not required to fast, [ 5 ] though some choose to do so, and some small children fast for half a day to train themselves. If puberty is delayed, fasting becomes obligatory for males and females after a certain age. Diabetics and nursing or pregnant women are usually not expected to fast. According to a hadith , observing the Ramadan fast is forbidden for menstruating women. Other individuals for whom it is usually considered acceptable not to fast are those in battle, and travellers who either intend to spend more than five days away from home or travel more than 50 miles.
Should the circumstance be permanent or present for an extended amount of time, one may recompense by feeding a needy person for every day missed. If one does not fit into any category of exemption and breaks the fast out of forgetfulness, the fast is still valid. Intentionally breaking the fast voids it, and the person must make up for the entire day later. One must either fast for 60 days after Ramadan or feed 60 people in need according to the Hanafi school and fast one day extra.
During a poliomyelitis outbreak in Somalia , some groups of aid workers were granted an exemption for the oral polio vaccine. Many mosques will provide iftar literally: breakfast meals after sundown for the community to come and end their day's fasting as a whole. It is also common for such meals to take place at Muslim soup kitchens. The fast is broken with a date when possible following the tradition of Muhammad, or with water.