Q: Does Masturbation Invalidate the Fast? Mufti Abu Layth

[Music] [Music] [Laughter] This is a setup question.

Now, this is does uh masturbation invalidate the fast? Okay, let me just see who's recognize your faces. Who's who seems too keen on this question so I can right Okay. Now, well, I think there's there's more detail to this question

right now. [Laughter] I was going to say this is more hands-on approach to this question. The thing is that this question really I think what you have to look at is uh first of all we got to be precise. It's more the let's say we're speaking from a male perspective. It's more the ejaculation that's being just I mean I'm taking into consideration that's what the person intends when they say does masturbation they mean does ejaculation invalidate the fast as opposed to just

touching yourself in that sense right look my eyes getting all embarrassed I know where the question came from now so the thing is well let's take it to mean that in its complete sense. Now does it invalidate the fast? I think uh the let's there is a difference of opinion.

The main understanding amongst most people that's transmitted is that it does invalidate the fast. Okay. uh and they draw that conclusion because there is no there is no hadith or any text in the Quran or Sunnah or anything to do with uh masturbation specifically. So they draw that conclusion from sexual interaction.

So they say well because having everybody agrees that having sexual intercourse will invalidate the fast and everybody agrees that let's say if a person had a wet dream that does not invalidate the fast. So masturbation's kind of in the middle. So now where would you put it? More with the wet dream or more with sexual intercourse?

So most people put it on this end and they would say well it does because of the consciousness and the decision to do it and the because it's willful and it's uh something being done for desire and so on. So most do feel that it does invalidate the fast and therefore will incur uh at the very least it will incur a and at the most it will incur a kaf with it as well.

That's many do have that position. Then there is a minority understanding that will place this with more like a wet dream. So they say because there's no clear verse of the Quran or hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam saying that masturbation invalidates the fast therefore we cannot accept that it does.

Okay? because they're saying that we need a clear text from the Quran or Sunnah and we don't have that and we have to now put this with either the the wet dream or either put it with the sexual uh intercourse and they say well we see this more like a wet dream. So according to them and amongst them is people if I recall correctly like Hazam.

It is also the understanding of uh of several of although not the majority position within the hannfi ma but several hanafies uh did hold that position especially people from uh the what they used to call the and and several it's it's a known position within the m but it's not the not the position that they give the fatwa by but it is within the hanfi mhab and I think with that other like Imm Shokani has also argued in favor of that and I think Almani as well and a few

other argued along that course of along that line saying that it doesn't whether they agreed with the act or not but they said well it doesn't invalidate the fast. So that's the difference of opinion really on this matter. It's not once again like many things it's not absolutely clearcut but the majority do seem to go with the fact that it will invalidate. Okay.

Okay.