Who else can't fast?

unknownuser

This is specific to XX chromosome bearers who may be living with sectarian family.

So basically (I'm not sure about shia) but sunni doesn't allow fasting during the special days in the month for us. Last year it was so frustrating I was unlucky to get hit TWICE and for 14 days I could fast only.

NOT to mention how troublesome it is. The rule unlike prayer is that you have to make up for fasts you miss. It's so annoying because I end up forgetting making up those ones. Not to mention my quran schedule gets ruined. Before I turned 11 I would routinely finishing the quran every Ramadan. But then they have this other stupid rule of no touching the quran, so since then I've never been able to finish it in ramadan. -\

Sigh it's ok. Until I move out muscle muscle
You people are so lucky who live in non sectarian families.
Hehe maybe I'll have one too hopefully inshallah pr pr

A_Submitter

huruf

I think there has been an evolution. I remember a time when you did not have to pray or fast whle having the menses, but you certainly could. It was not forbidden. In the period of my life such a thing has evolved to it being forbidden. I thought it was thought of as a way of making things easier for those women who really feel not well during those days.

Now if you so much as voice that you could fast and pray in those days you may get people look at you or answer as if you were advancing a monstruosity.

I am sure that in the muslims peoples unrelentingly a virus of idiocy has been instilled gradually pushing them to stupidities they would never have thought of previously, in gneeral in particular we all know that there is nothing new under the sun and that all the time there have existed all manners of nuts.

Salaam

Aladin

So basically (I'm not sure about shia) but sunni doesn't allow fasting during the special days in the month for us.

Meryem s.a. got birth and she was fasting same day. She was eating and drinking also, but she was not allowed to speak openly, visibly, evident (insiyy). She could warn somebody not to talk with her and she could point towards her son, El-Mesih a.s., as mimic.

There're only a few ayets about fasting, but if we think about any of them we can understand, with His Help, why we have to fast, then it'll be easier to find out when we have to fast and how...

Comrox

It's funny because there was a post on r/Islam about this topic today.

Some people have the opposite problem.

unknownuser

ugh confused confused

.... lmao giveup giveup yay yay

SarahY

Is it possible to keep your cycle private? if you feel able just continue to go about your routine? if asked why, say you don't understand why it's not allowed and still intend on doing it, if it's accepted it is, if not God will be the judge.

The idea of not being able to pray or partake in acts of worship simply because of getting a menstrual bleed didn't make any sense to me. It was one of the the first things that made me question the way Islam was practised. I used to hate the idea of being a female to think men can get all these rewards while mine would be futile for a condition God created in me... didn't make sense.

huruf

Meryem s.a. got birth and she was fasting same day. She was eating and drinking also, but she was not allowed to speak openly, visibly, evident (insiyy). She could warn somebody not to talk with her and she could point towards her son, El-Mesih a.s., as mimic.

There're only a few ayets about fasting, but if we think about any of them we can understand, with His Help, why we have to fast, then it'll be easier to find out when we have to fast and how...

God gave Maryam the est advice. She had a child without the benefit of marriage. Of course many people was going to plague her for that. God protected her with silence. It was not so much a fast as a protection for herself.

And as an explanation she gave what is the obvious explanation
You do not need to know anything except that God has blessed humanity with anew member and there is nothign more you need or should want to know.

Salaam

Aladin

In first ayet about "fasting" (es-siyaam) we were told that it was prescribed to us as it was prescribed to ones before us... so we can elevate ourselves with doing "taqwa".

There're 2 roots connected one which has only letter Qaf as a root, and the other one with Ta-Qaf. They're very similar and they both mean protection, but TQ means self-protection.

You noticed very well that Meryem s.a. was fasting to protects herself from her people. But, fasting is for our self-protection generally. Silence is a protection, and fasting is not about food/drink, it's about silence. We have to remind ourselves on Allah while we're fasting and we'll get protected. The question arises from what? To answer this we have to look at all ayets (situations) which are related to fasting.

The most common (fasting in shehru ramadane) is to protect ourselves from what is after Leyletul-Qadr.

Punishments come in the morning, but which morning? People of Salih a.s. were not punished at the same day, they were punished "after 3 days"... it was too early for their punishment. People of Zen-noon a.s. were not punished at all - they were fasting, they protected, as a whole people, themselves.

I hope this can help...

reel