بسم الله الرّحمان الرّحيم
In the Name of Allah,
the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The Conditions of a Valid Fast
The conditions of a valid fast are:
a) the intention ;
b) and refraining from things which break the fast.
The Intention
One must make the intention to fast for each day
one fasts. If the intended fast is obligatory, then
the intention must:
(a) be specific ( as to the fast being for Ramadhan,
a vow, an expiation, or whatever);
(b) and be made in the night prior to dawn. ( For
Hanafis, the intention for a day of Ramadhan (but
not a makeup) is valid if made before midway bet-
ween true dawn and sunset of the day itself (al-
Hadiyya al- Ala'iyya (y4),171).)
The optimal way is to intend ( in one's heart) to
fast the following day as a current performance
of the obligation of Ramadhan in the present
year for Allah Most High
نَوَيْتُ صَوْمَ غَدٍ عَنْ اَدَآءِ فَرْضَ رَمَضَانَ هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ لِلهِ تَعَا لَى
fast and of Ramadhan being unanimously
considered as integral to the intention,
though scholars differ concerning the obli-
gatoriness of intending it as a current prefor-
mance, an obligation, or for Allah Most High).
One's intention is valid if on the night before
a day of uncertainty (as to whether it will be
the first day of Ramadhan), someone one
trusts but who does not have all the qualifi-
cations of an acceptable witness informs one
of having seen the new moon, and relying on
this information one intends to fast the next
day to fulfill the obligation of Ramadhan, and
the next day turns out to be Ramadhan. But
one's fast is not valid if one makes the intention
without anyone having informed one of sighting
the new moon, no matter whether if one's inten-
tion is firm or whether undecided, as when one
intends that if the following day is Ramadhan,
one will fast, but if not, one will not.
One's fast is valid if on the night before 30
Ramadhan, one intends that if the following day
is of Ramadhan, one will fast, but if not, one will
not, and then the next day is a Ramadhan (since
it already is Ramadhan, and the initial presumption
is that it will remain so.
Nonobligatory fasts are valid by merely making the
intention to fast before noon (without needing to
specify the type of fast).
Extracts from
Ahmad ibn Naqib al- Misri
Reliance of the Traveller
Tran .. Nuh Ha mim Keller
In the Name of Allah,
the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The Conditions of a Valid Fast
The conditions of a valid fast are:
a) the intention ;
b) and refraining from things which break the fast.
The Intention
One must make the intention to fast for each day
one fasts. If the intended fast is obligatory, then
the intention must:
(a) be specific ( as to the fast being for Ramadhan,
a vow, an expiation, or whatever);
(b) and be made in the night prior to dawn. ( For
Hanafis, the intention for a day of Ramadhan (but
not a makeup) is valid if made before midway bet-
ween true dawn and sunset of the day itself (al-
Hadiyya al- Ala'iyya (y4),171).)
The optimal way is to intend ( in one's heart) to
fast the following day as a current performance
of the obligation of Ramadhan in the present
year for Allah Most High
نَوَيْتُ صَوْمَ غَدٍ عَنْ اَدَآءِ فَرْضَ رَمَضَانَ هَذِهِ السَّنَةِ لِلهِ تَعَا لَى
I make niyyah to fast tomorrow as a current perfor-
mance of the obligation of Ramadhan in the present
year for Allah Most High.
fast and of Ramadhan being unanimously
considered as integral to the intention,
though scholars differ concerning the obli-
gatoriness of intending it as a current prefor-
mance, an obligation, or for Allah Most High).
One's intention is valid if on the night before
a day of uncertainty (as to whether it will be
the first day of Ramadhan), someone one
trusts but who does not have all the qualifi-
cations of an acceptable witness informs one
of having seen the new moon, and relying on
this information one intends to fast the next
day to fulfill the obligation of Ramadhan, and
the next day turns out to be Ramadhan. But
one's fast is not valid if one makes the intention
without anyone having informed one of sighting
the new moon, no matter whether if one's inten-
tion is firm or whether undecided, as when one
intends that if the following day is Ramadhan,
one will fast, but if not, one will not.
One's fast is valid if on the night before 30
Ramadhan, one intends that if the following day
is of Ramadhan, one will fast, but if not, one will
not, and then the next day is a Ramadhan (since
it already is Ramadhan, and the initial presumption
is that it will remain so.
Nonobligatory fasts are valid by merely making the
intention to fast before noon (without needing to
specify the type of fast).
Extracts from
Ahmad ibn Naqib al- Misri
Reliance of the Traveller
Tran .. Nuh Ha mim Keller
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