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Sexual acts while fasting? -Mufti Abu Layth

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sexual acts people and foreplay which then presumably leads on to nosebleed that's that's the order that they must mean so okay sexual acts and right so people this is a stuff from a bond people but I suppose since the devil is deep within people since the devil is deep within right

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sexual acts what does that mean now I'm not about to go through a list of sexual acts what I'm about to say is what is Haram okay what is Haram is clearly sex is clearly Haram during the fast okay so that is Haram however just acts of foreplay or things like these are not Haram they do not violate the fast I'm not saying you need to be doing it's not I'm not saying that Imam Saab has to spend his

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day doing that I thought also this woman to do because not harmony that's I'm not saying that but it's it does not violate the fast so whether it's simply touching or kissing or whatever these kind of things do not violate the fast people have asked about people have our since this is live and unrestricted people they have asked about oral sex I would say although that technically would get a bit in a bit of a kind of gray area

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but I would say that I would place that with sex so that would be generally forbidden during Ramadan and not June Ramadan sorry during the fast during the fast fast calm down BAP to have all these people boycott me all of a sudden during the fast that would be forbidden but generally general act sexual acts of intimacy are not forbidden and do not violate the fast this does lead on to the question of things like methi and money and worthy and all this you know

2:33

in the v books you know when you're reading these thick books and it's like saying and this liquid is and this is what is emitted and you have these fluids and these fluid and you like then you have what the like what the hell is why do you ho buddy right so they say in the fix what they will speak about is mathie now mozzie is pre-seminal fluid okay so presumably that's like prostatic fluid or the pre-seminal fluid in generally speaking now you have that and then

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you'll have semen sperm which they call money in arabic not like i suppose it sounds like money money man same kind of sound gets money but what he is something which I don't exactly sure what he is but they say it's an it's a kind of a fluid that some people can that they can emit this was after you sorry after urinating so they describe it as a thick kind of like almost as a very thick sperm like fluid that's how they describe it I don't know I've got

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to go to the images section and then just get in trouble that what the hell are you they should have like an images which refer to Appendix A so it's like oh okay so I click this right so so now people will say you're Fastbreaks does your fast break with emitting any of these fluids or with a woman let's say so these were male with the female just vaginal whether it's just fluids and things like this that are excreted

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do these break the fast now the answer I would say none of them break the fast okay my understanding not pre-seminal fluid vagina fluids whether it's going to be actual semen sperm Jack ulation whether it's going to be worthy none of these things actually break the fast in my understanding that is what many Olimar as well in the past did say I mean they weren't the majority but people like Nizam has argued this you'll have show Karen Imam show Kearney and several other people have argued this point that look there is no Deline in

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the Quran or Sunna and that the fast is broken with by excreting these fluids or by by releasing or emitting these fluid there's no Delisle the Prophet never said this the Quran never said this so this is simply the HD heart of AHA and if you're going to go with principles then assault each us that something by default stands unless categorically overruled so the fast remains if you have a fast it exists unless it is broken by

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something that is clearly spoken of in the Quran and Sunnah so that's so that in my understanding does not break the fast although many people will say to you that that does but the thing about even sperm if you're going to think about it like even many Hanna fear argued that it does not break the fast and and hence you had even people like alberni argued for that you'll have people saying and they touch on the issue of masturbation during Ramadan and they will say even though Albani

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wasn't fond of masturbation that came out wrong I'm sure actually I don't know whether he was personally fond of masturbation or not but I know he wasn't fond of the topic of masturbation being permissible for people that said he argued that it does not violate the fast and many Hannah Fiona Marshall Connie even has them many of these orlimar data argue that it does not violate the fast and that seems to make a lot of sense that is the ruling the fatwa that I would give as well in

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line with those orlimar cool so right now next question somewhere praising okay right no idea what that is right so I've answered those questions right nosebleed I don't know why these questions go in that order

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, May 23). Sexual acts while fasting? -Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/mibk949hbye/
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  title = {{Sexual acts while fasting? -Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2019},
  month = {5},
  date = {2019-05-23},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}