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Feb 2024
It is permissible to brush your teeth with toothpaste, as long as you only use a little and are careful to avoid swallowing any of it, just as it is permissible for a fasting person to use the siwak (tooth-stick). Shaykh Haytham Tamim...
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Jun 2023
Although I recommend people to follow their local community when it comes to fasting in Ramadan and celebrating Eid, I would not recommend anyone to fast on the day the Hajjis are celebrating Eid. The Ummah should unite during the days of Dhul Hijjah. We should show solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are performing Hajj. It breaks the spirit of unity that Hajj embodies to suggest that millions of Hajjis standing on the plains of Arafat are in the wrong. Therefore I would recommend all Muslims who are able to......
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25
Mar 2023
They ask you… My reflection today is on a very beautiful ayah among the 5 verses on fasting in the Quran which are found in Surat al-Baqarah (183-187). Allah Almighty says: وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِى عَنِّى فَإِنِّى قَرِيبٌ ۖ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ ٱلدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ ۖ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِى وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِى لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ If my servants ask you about Me, I am near. I answer the call of the caller when he calls on me, so let them answer me and have faith in me that they may be rightly guided. This ayah is......
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10
Oct 2022
In general, a fast is broken when you swallow something and it enters the stomach or gives the body nutrition. Medicine taken into the body that does not enter the stomach is permissible. Injections Intravenous and intramuscular injections do not break a fast. Injections that administer medicine or vaccinations into the body, whether intravenous (through the veins) or intramuscular (through the muscles) do not break the fast. They do not directly enter the stomach. A fast is invalidated if you use a drip, as you are receiving hydration and if you need......
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Oct 2021
In Imam Ghazali’s book, Kitaab Al-Arba’in Fi Usul ad-Din, The Forty Principles of the Religion, which is a summary of his great work, Ihya Ulum ad-Din, he talks about how to purify the heart by ridding oneself of bad traits. One of these is Sharah at- ta’am which is gluttony. Gluttony Ghazali dwells at length on gluttony in his book Ihya Ulum ad-Din in his volume ‘The Defeat of The Two Desires’. He talked about the desire for food and the desire for intimacy as two disastrous desires if they are not......
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07
Jun 2021
If you genuinely eat, drink or have intercourse while you are fasting, out of forgetfulness, your fast is not broken. Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace be on him) said: “Whoever forgets he is fasting and eats or drinks, let him complete his fast for it is Allah Who has fed him and given him to drink.” (Bukhari and Muslim) You do not have give expiation or make up that fast. In the Quran, in Surat al Ahzab, it says: And there is no sin on......
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02
Jun 2021
Fasting is preceded by the intention (niyyah) to refrain from eating and drinking. It does not need to be verbalised, it is in the heart. How do I make intention to fast in Ramadan? As per the Maliki school of thought, it is possible to make your intention to fast for the whole month of Ramadan at the beginning of the Ramadan. In the Hanafi school the intention should be made daily in the heart between Maghrib (i.e. the night before) and Duha (an hour before Dhur). When do I make the......
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May 2019
Ramadan: Reclaiming your inner and outer peace Talk by Shaykh Haytham Tamim on 28th May 2019 at Open Iftar, Westminster Abbey and Khutbah 31st May 2019 Life is busy – full of stress, fatigue, conflicts, tests and temptation… We are missing tranquility and peace. Ramadan comes and brings peace back to our lives. It puts us back in control. It gives us the ability to control our desires, anger, and emotions. It begins in the mind, through building up cast iron will over our whims and desires, which gives us total control......
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May 2019
Ramadan is the time to smell the perfume of jannah When it’s the first night of Ramadan, the devils will be chained and the giant jinns will be chained and the gates of hell will be closed and none of it will be open and the gates of paradise will be open and none of it will be closed and then a caller calling ‘O you who is seeking goodness, come forward and O you who is seeking evil stay away’ and Allah Almighty will free from hell many people and this......
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May 2019
Ramadan is the Month of Ihsan Fasting is a shield. When anyone of you is observing fast, he should neither indulge in obscene language nor should he raise his voice; and if anyone reviles him or tries to quarrel with him, he should say: ‘I am fasting.’ By Him in Whose Hand the soul of Muhammad is, the breath of one observing Sawm is sweeter to Allah than the fragrance of musk. (Bukhari and Muslim) The person observing sawm (fasting) He has abstained from food and drink, and sexual pleasures for My......
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Apr 2019
Dimensions of Ramadan ‘O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you, as it has been prescribed for those before you, that you may be people of taqwa, people of piety’. (2:183) The obligation of siyyam was prescribed to the ummah in the second year of hijrah, in the month of Sha’ban in five verses called the ayatul siyyam (ayahs related to fasting) which are 183 – 187 of Surah Baqarah. Reason for fasting The reason for fasting is to achieve taqwa of Allah Almighty. The simple definition of taqwa is......
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