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Textual sources for the determination of the beginning of a lunar month First of all the hadith you have quoted (in Arabic) about the determination of the beginning of Ramadan is incomplete and the co …

First of all you should know that sawm of Ramadan or fast in Ramadan or generally in Islam means abstaining, usually from food, drink, and sexual activity during the day one intends to fast. …

First of all suhoor or eating before fajr is not a condition for a fast being valid or not. However the intention is a condition due to the known hadith: Narrated 'Umar bin Al-Khattab: I heard Allah' …

The fast of the white days أيام البيض is basically a specific case of fasting 3 days each months (See for example in Sahih al-Bukhari and the addition of an-Nasa-i in his Sunan adding the white days) …

Saying "Bismillah بسم الله " is not mandatory, but among the sunan of eating. This is based on: "When one of you eats food, then let him say: 'Bismillah.' If he forgets in the beginning, then let him …

Note that for the cases you've mentioned the view of different schools of fiqh my deviate from what I found in fatwas. Swallowing lip balm while fasting The view of scholars such as ibn Baz, ibn 'Utha …

The answer is there is a very weak (fabricated) narration that creates a relation between fasting these days and 'Adam and Hawaa'. Imam as-Suyuti referred to it in his tafsir a-Durr al-Manthur الدر ا …

This is a matter of niyyah (intention). If you made the intention to fast Ramadan at the beginning of the month there shouldn't be an issue (not all madhhabs regard this as acceptable). But if you mad …

The matter of fast is simple, if you had in mind to fast the following day before you went to bed. You made an intention. Eating or doing suhur has no relation to the validity of fast. It is only a re …

Replacing one day of fast of Ramadan or making up for Ramadan (obligatory fast) if one has broken his fast due to a valid reason actually is covered in the qur'an in (2:184). But if one had interc …

On what basis do you want to skip fast? Distance of your journey trip? The distance is much to short to even shorten the prayer (most sunni madhhabs require a traveling distance of > 80 kilometers, …

What you call du'a is simply a wording to declare the intention to fast. Note that in some madhhabs it is sufficient to make it once in the beginning of Ramadan (for the whole month), but basically th …

Fasting and prayer are basically and from a fiqh perspective two independent acts of worship. Each of them has special conditions for validity/invalidity (one may say technical conditions as fiqh is b …

It seems at your location you can't hear the adhan. So basically you might have unintentionally continued eating while you should have stopped. So far if there was any mistake or breaking of fast it …

Missing suhur is not a reason for not fasting as it is basically your fault. If you nevertheless ate you need to do expiation for voluntary breaking the fast, unless you have a valid reason or for exa …