I would like to know in fasting is there any restriction for taking bath, making beard or shaving and cutting nails.
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Assalamalaykum,
Dear
Brother Burhan,
I would like
to know in fasting is there any restriction for
taking bath, making beard or shaving and cutting nails. During
fasting can we do all these things or is there any time fixed. Or if any
time fixed what is that time please explain us in the light of quran and
sunnah( sahih hadeeth).
awaiting
for your reply,
Thank
you.
regards.
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Answer:
Shave while fasting
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 verse 187:
187 Permitted to you on the night of the fasts is the approach (sexual
intercourse) to your wives. They are
your garments. And ye are their
garments. Allah knoweth what ye used to
do secretly among yourselves; but He turned to you and forgave you; so now
associate (sexual intercourse) with them (your wives), and seek what
Allah hath ordained for you and eat and drink until the white thread of dawn
appear to you distinct from its black thread; then complete your fast till the
night appears; but do not associate with your wives while ye are in
retreat in the mosques. Those are limits
(set by) Allah; approach not nigh thereto.
Thus doth Allah make clear His signs to men that they may learn
self-restraint.
There are five things
which will break or invalidate the fast:
- Intentional eating
- Intentional drinking
- Sexual intercourse
- voluntary semen discharge
- the menstruation of the woman while fasting
The taking of a bath, the trimming of one’s beard, the
shaving off of one’s unwanted hair on any part of one’s body, the cutting or
clipping of one’s nails, etc. do not violate the sanctity or invalidate or
effect the state of one’s fasts in any way whatsoever.
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
Wister