Fast and Fiqhious: Few minutes before fajr

folks to today's fast and fous we're taking a look at a question today which is um that should I stop eating a few minutes before fud now this is an interesting question because uh it is sometimes encouraged by certain people and I know that several people have asked me this question they use an Arabic term for it sometimes known as or that you as a precautionary measure you kind of stop a few minutes before what

you feel uh fuder time is and it's just to kind of make sure and they kind of include this under a general principle that sometimes some people might take it to that extreme that's saying that what is what that some mediums are necessary in order to achieve the necessary my response to to this is that you do not have to stop eating you most certainly do not have to stop eating before fud time um given the the type of lengthy hours that we have here within

the UK I would not advise this practice at all and in fact if we take a look at the Sunnah of the messenger of Allah sallu alaihi wasallam there is a Hadith which I would like to share with you where the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam said that comes upon you and one of you has something some food or a container in his hand like a vessel where he's drinking

from until he completes what he or she is eating or drinking at the time so meaning don't become this type of obsessive people I'm not saying you become super relaxed and you forget about everything but you do you do not need to fall into this type of waswasa in thinking oh this very second that fuder kicks in or this very oh no I've eaten 10 seconds into it or or I've done such and such this is not from the practice of the Prophet sallu alaihi wasallam nor the sahab around him they would they would be very natural so you would see in in another Hadi the prophet Salli wasallam in which is transmitted

in he says that okay until you can see like quite visibly The Horizon and that was in a context as well in when some of the sahaba were eating Prophet s alaihi wasallam said look just until it becomes very clear that you know it's not a problem especially this type of uh uh almost obsessive Behavior should be really stayed clear from that that's something which is not a part of this theme so the question coming back to your question once again that should I

stop eating a few minutes before F or what is known as IM should I stop doing that I would say first of all given the complexity of fuder within the UK and the diverse type of timings we have in the Calenders um I would say that not only is this not necessary but I would actually advise against this I would say keep things natural that keep eating until the time comes upon you and then at that time you can just stop naturally you don't need to worry about the seconds and things like this that's not uh the way the dean has been handed down it's been handed down in a very natural type of sense okay so once again as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has

taught us that um look just do things naturally if fuder entered and you were drinking from a cup or something you can finish doing so the prophet Sall Al said don't put it down till you finish and reminding us once again that that create ease do not create difficulty and the verse of the Quran you uh that Allah wants for you is that he does not want um hardship for you in this sacred month may Allah subhana wa ta'ala make things easy for us and he may may he enable us to be a source of guidance for those who come

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