Fasting in the Month of Ramadan and taking exams

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Fasting in the Month of Ramadan and taking exams


The Honorable Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoobi


Peace and Blessing be upon you,

Some of us students who are in sixth grade find it very difficult to take exams because the month of Ramadan coincides with the same time that we take exams and because of the struggles we experience such as tiredness and the need for rest, it affects our ability to focus and give proper time for studying and reviewing.

Does the Honorable Sheikh allow us in such situations to break our fast and if not and we break our fast intentionally, what’s obligatory upon us with fasting and paying fidya (ransom)?

 

In His Name The Exalted

Peace and blessings be upon you,

 

One who’s able to fast with arranging a time and schedule in which ones studies won’t be affected in the future must do so.

One who wishes to break his fast so that he’s more capable of observing his studies, he can break his fast the legal way which is allowed in the shariah such as travelling 22 kilometers in the morning and after he finishes his small travel he can eat or drink.

In terms of one who broke their fast intentionally without an excuse isn’t allowed however when one thinks that he has the ability to fast and fasts that day but he finds it harmful and he’s not able to travel, he can eat and drink the amount which removes such harm and difficulty and he doesn’t go overboard with that, then he will have to make up the said fast that he missed.

 

Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoobi

 

18 Jamadi Akhir 1436