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1. Eating and drinking → ← INTENTION (NIYYAH)

THINGS THAT INVALIDATE (MUBṬILĀT) A FAST

Ruling 1551. Eight things invalidate a fast:

1.
eating and drinking;

2.
sexual intercourse;

3.
masturbation, meaning that a man – either with himself or by means of something – does something other than having sexual intercourse that results in ejaculation. How this applies to a woman was explained in Ruling 345;

4.
based on obligatory precaution, ascribing false things to Allah the Exalted, the Most Noble Messenger (Ṣ), and the successors of the Most Noble Messenger (Ṣ) [i.e. the Infallible Imams (ʿA)];

5.
causing thick dust to reach the throat, based on obligatory precaution;

6.
remaining in a state of ritual impurity (janābah), menstruation (ḥayḍ), or lochia (nifās) until the time of ṣubḥ prayers;

7.
applying liquid enema;

8.
vomiting intentionally.

The laws (aḥkām) relating to these will be explained in the following rulings (masāʾil).
1. Eating and drinking → ← INTENTION (NIYYAH)
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