Who must fast?
Every Muslim who is adult, sane, resident and able. Children are encouraged to practise fasting when they can bear it.
What breaks the fast
- Intentionally eating or drinking.
- Intimate relations during the day.
- Intentional vomiting.
- Menstruation and postnatal bleeding.
Exemptions
The ill, the traveller, and pregnant or nursing women who fear harm may break the fast and make it up later. Those with no hope of recovery, such as the elderly, pay fidya (feeding a poor person for each day).
This is general educational information. For specific cases consult a trusted scholar in your country.