2 Ramadan Questions
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This is for believers who fast (abstain from eating, drinking, sex during Ramadan according to 2183-2187). Not for those who want to reinvent the wheel.
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What time does the fast end? I have seen some translations say sunset, and some say night in 2187. Anyone who understands the Arabic that can shed some light on this?
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I'm a smoker. Quran talks about abstaining from eating, drinking and sex. No other restrictions mentioned by name. So can I smoke during my fast?
Thanks in advance. Looking forward to your thoughts.
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This is for believers who fast (abstain from eating, drinking, sex during Ramadan according to 2183-2187). Not for those who want to reinvent the wheel.
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What time does the fast end? I have seen some translations say sunset, and some say night in 2187. Anyone who understands the Arabic that can shed some light on this?
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I'm a smoker. Quran talks about abstaining from eating, drinking and sex. No other restrictions mentioned by name. So can I smoke during my fast?
Thanks in advance. Looking forward to your thoughts.
2187,
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...and eat and drink until the dawn appears to you, then finish the fasting toward/until the nightfall/dusk...What I understand from the verse is, to break the fasting right after the complete sunset.
Peace,
Khalil -
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This is for believers who fast (abstain from eating, drinking, sex during Ramadan according to 2183-2187). Not for those who want to reinvent the wheel.
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What time does the fast end? I have seen some translations say sunset, and some say night in 2187. Anyone who understands the Arabic that can shed some light on this?
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I'm a smoker. Quran talks about abstaining from eating, drinking and sex. No other restrictions mentioned by name. So can I smoke during my fast?
Thanks in advance. Looking forward to your thoughts.
I think that one of the merits of Ramadan is the breaking of habits. Habits in life are good, they give us structure, shape, and comfort. However, like everything we can carry them to excess or depend on them to absolutely. So Ramadan offers an apportunity to break with them commitedly. Smoking continuously is a bad habit to break it even a little is good. So my advice is to break it. If you cannot break it for a whole day, try to break it some. Make a commitment. It is an addiction as well as a habit. So the matter goes deeper than a mere habit, like coffee, which gives you pleasure and comfort but which causes you no pain or illness if you don't drink, though you might feel less energetic.
The question is for us. God does not need of any Ramadan. It is up to us what we make of it. It is an oportunity and a concerted effort, but it is no magic remedy. Still we must do our work and use our brains, and try hard. If we do not succeed, may be some other time we will.
Salaam
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Agree with huruf.
- I think it's after sunset which includes the stages of layl.
- Used to be a smoker and would quit during the fast since it didn't make sense to take in anything sustenance based and since smoking isn't... I thought why do it, it's not like it's the air I need to survive without the sustenance. Which I figure is one of the thought and physical exercises by which we pay attention to what we are subjecting our body to and why. Most of the times normally, we don't really notice what we are taking in, we are kinda forced to during Ramadan.
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- What time does the fast end? I have seen some translations say sunset, and some say night in 2187. Anyone who understands the Arabic that can shed some light on this?
I still disagree with someone who say "layl" is dusk, sunset.Because the proper meaning of "layl" is "night" and cannot be debate.
/ Laylaty Al Qadr
It's funny if the red word was translated into "sunset"
- I'm a smoker. Quran talks about abstaining from eating, drinking and sex. No other restrictions mentioned by name. So can I smoke during my fast?
I'm also a smoker, but already quit 2-3 months ago.So I know how do you feel, if you're not smoking for hours.
I'm also feel not comfortable if I'm not smoking for hours, but at that time I still Sunni and I force myself to not do smoking, because according to ulama, smoking can made our fast is batl/broken.I sometime smoke in minutes before tarweh.
I think smoking is just like eating, because not all smoke you inhale was enter your lung and some of it enter to your whole body.
The proof is a stroke patient eating with their nose by using the medical hose, and it doesn't means the food will enter the lung, but entering their stomach.
You're former Sunni, so you may know if we face the fatwa which it's haram and halal is still doubting, so we must take the haram argument for the safety.
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Salaamun alaykum, Aamer,
God does not define the night and the day only in terms of darkness and light, but also says that night is for rest and day is to seek God's bounties (e.g., 1712, 2873). My understanding is that in high latitudes, where during summer there can be light well into the night, the day in fact ends/the night starts well before the sunset, and in winter the day may last well into the darkness (in Northern latitudes, in Southern latitudes the opposite).
Nothing in the Quran says anything about smoking. On the other hand, you might want to consider stopping anyway - it's better for your health.
Salaam, Milan (former smoker)