Early version. Transcripts and tags are labelled by accuracy tier. A position is shown only after two independent reviews have found it in his own words.
Mufti Abu Layth ArchiveBeta

Recordings

Fast and Fiqhious: Can I be excused from fasting due to work?

sawm roza siyam rozah saum muftis halal halaal lawful mubah mubaah jahannam jahanam jahannum

video · 7:59 · 2,100 views · 5 Jul 2014 · Open on YouTube

Press play to load from YouTube. Nothing loads until you do.

Transcript

machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossary
0:09

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ان الحمد لله وكفاه والصلاه والسلام على رسوله المصطفى وعلى عباده الذين ارتضى ومن بهداهم اهتدى وباث اهل المدينه اقتفى وبعد فسلام الله عليكم ورحمه الله تعالى وبركاته اهلا وسهلا ‏f be taking a look to and that is can i be excused from fasting due to work right now i like to respond by saying that this in itself is a very

0:47

broad discussion which which covers many angles and perspective so it is very v so like to kind of maybe just [موسيقى]

1:14

سبانه وتالى فمن كان مريضا على سفر فعده من ايام اخر ‏a number of days a different point of the in makeup for now so you can be excused from fasting if there are valid grounds what you would do and i'll come back to some vals can be but first of all what you must do is you must make up that fast at a later date and you

1:51

shouldn't really when it is possible you just make it up and you definitely should notp for ‏some reas excuses are things like being ill if a person is ill that is they feel that may any way detrimental to their health that may delay the kind of getting back to good health then it is per for excused from

2:38

‏to be excused from trav le be trav distance in ‏gave it was 80 km 50 علما especially from the and from some others defined as being around 48 mil so something around that tye of distance we not saying it has to be

3:17

necessarily you know measured to the inch but something that is definitely deemed a journey of around that type of distance then it is permitted for you to short the prayers and also permitted ح الخدر رض الله عنه نفر مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عل ئمر

4:00

فلا يجدون على مر ولا يجدون على صا was fasting let say they would say to him what the hell do you think doing being to try and like they would try accuse somebody who was not fasting in saying what's wrong with you you know we fasting why can't you keep up with this indiv choice [تصفيق]

4:30

من كان به قه حسنن لم يجد القو حديث وجد [موسيقى] ضعفا [موسيقى] حسن ولم يع بعضهم على الاخر

5:06

‏main of character and so these things definit excusable for these tye of grounds as for work now this is a type of vue generic area because it could many things i me work could be youve got incredibly type of ‏don't difficult ahe and f

5:39

[موسيقى] r اماط مف person ‏can tolerate have the strength to something you can't to another person look i can this why can't you this is a subjective matter and each and every person is they themselves can the best judges

6:16

to understand capacity and they are responsable to allah okay so as to the work it is permissible if you had a particular ‏um let's say for example a i don't know let's say a doctor had to undergo some type of surgery he had to perform the surgery would take like lengthy hours to do endless type of hard work it would require certain level of attention and having to fast compromise the qu and therefore know become dehydrated may now bring certain

6:55

elements of let's say life ‏for concern into the equation therefore would definitely be permissible for such a person to not fast and likewise you have to judge and assess your own situation okay so i can't say as a blanket statement to everybody that uh because you have work it's permissible for you to that's in no ways plausible to make such a statement however if you that there was

7:32

[موسيقى] ‏could سبحانه وتالى الله والسلام عليكم ورحمه الله تعالى وبركاته

Something wrong here?

Tell us what is wrong and it will be checked against the recording. Nothing changes until a person has reviewed it.

Sending a note needs JavaScript, which is off or unavailable in this browser. Nothing has been sent.

No name, email address or account is asked for or stored, and the inbox does not store your IP address. For rate limiting it keeps an unreadable fingerprint of your connection for 48 hours, and our database provider's own logs record connections as every website's do. Only your note, its kind, the page and the moment in the recording are kept, for review.

Cite this recording

Stable id, transcript version and tier are part of the citation. Every change to a transcript is logged.

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eheihrqgwh4/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

APA 7
Mufti Abu Layth. (2014, July 5). Fast and Fiqhious: Can I be excused from fasting due to work? [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eheihrqgwh4/
Chicago author-date
Mufti Abu Layth. 2014. "Fast and Fiqhious: Can I be excused from fasting due to work?" Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded July 5, 2014. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eheihrqgwh4/
BibTeX
@misc{abulayth-eHEIhRqgwH4,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Fast and Fiqhious: Can I be excused from fasting due to work?}},
  year = {2014},
  month = {7},
  date = {2014-07-05},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eheihrqgwh4/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eheihrqgwh4/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}