If you are travelling from one place at the time when Prayer of Eid ul fitr is being offred.
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question is as follows,
If you
are travelling from one place at the time when Prayer of Eid ul fitr is being
offred, my flight is at 9 am early morning, and check in will be 3 hrs before
my departure of flight i.e 9 am, and I travelling to a country where Eid ul
fitr will be celebrated after 1 or 2 days. What should I do? Should I fast on
the day where I am travelling from?
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Answer:
Fasting 31 days
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verses 183-184:
183 O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed
to those before you that ye may (learn) self-restraint.
184 (Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill or on a journey the prescribed number
(should be made up) from days later.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 185:
185 Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent
down the Qur'an as a guide to mankind also clear (Signs) for guidance and
judgment (between right and wrong). So
everyone of you who is present (or witnesses) the month should spend it in
fasting but if anyone is ill or on a journey the prescribed period
(should be made up) by days later. Allah
intends every facility for you He does not want to put you to
difficulties. (He wants you) to complete
the prescribed period and to glorify Him in that He has guided you; and
perchance ye shall be grateful.
Narrated Hadrat Umar (r.a.) that "The
Messenger of Allah (saws) has forbidden fasting on these two days. Concerning
the Eid of breaking the fast, it is for you to break your fast [of Ramadan]. On
the Eid of sacrifice, you should eat from what you sacrifice."
Related by Ahmad, an-Nasa'i, atTirmidhi, Abu
Dawud, and Ibn Majah.
If you are traveling from a place where the Eid-ul-Fitr
has already been declared to a place where the Eid might be celebrated a day or
two later, then obviously you should not observe a fast on that day…..as the
Messenger of Allah (saws) forbade the believers from fasting on the Day of Eid.
If the next day after you reach your destination is not
declared as Eid in that location, and you find the believers there
fasting….then you should observe fasting along with them and it will be
considered a voluntary fast for you. The
evidence for observing this fast is the verse of the Glorious Quran which
declares that: ‘So everyone of you who is present (or
witnesses) the month should spend it in fasting’ .
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan