Most Prominent Ritual That People Do In Shawwal Is Fasting
The Six Days Of Shawaal. Why? The Prophet (Saw) Said
Whoever Fast Ramadan The Whole Month And Follows That With
Six Days Of Shawwal, Allah Would Reward Him As If He Had
As If He Had Fasted The Whole Year And Another Hadith
Because One Deed Is Multiplied To 10.
So Fasting Six Days Of Shawwal Is As If You Had Fasted 60
Days /Two Months And Fasting Ramadan Before That Is As If You
Have Fasted 10 Months And This Is A Full Year. Now, One Of
The Benefits Of Fasting,
The Six Days Of Shawwal Is That It Compensates
Whatever Shortcomings You Had Done During Fasting Ramadan,
And This Is Something Well Known In Sharia, Whatever Thing
You Miss In A Fard, Whatever Voluntary You Perform Would
Compensate For That Which Was Missing.
Now,
There Is An Issue Of Dispute Among Scholars In Regards To
Whether The Fasting Of The Full Ramadan Must Be Done Before
The Six Days Of Shawwal Or Not?
And The Most Authentic Opinion Is That You Cannot Fast 23
Days Of Ramadan.
Skipping Six Or Seven Days Due To A Legitimate Reasons Such
As Traveling, Falling Sick, Or Having Menstrual Cycle For Women.
And After Ramadan You Fast The Six Days Of Shawwal,
The Most Authentic Opinion Is That This Is Not Permissible.
You Have To Make Up For The Missed Days Of Ramadan So That
You Would Have Fulfilled Fasting The Whole Month Of Ramadan.
And After That You Must... If You Wish Fast The Six Days Of
Shawwal In Order To Fall Under The Category And Under The
Reward Of The Prophet (Saw) That Afterwards Meaning
After Fasting Ramadan You Follow That With Six Days Of Shawwal
On Which Means If You Fast It 28 Or 25 Days, You .... Did
Not Do That.
And This Is The Fatwa Of The Permanent Committee That You
Cannot Fast A Missed Ramadan Follow That By 6 Shawwal And
Attained The Reward, You Have To Fulfill And Complete It.
It. So Frequently Asked Questions
Can We Combine Between Making Up Of The Missed Days Of Ramadan
With The Six Days Of Shawwal With One Intention?
So Like For Example I Missed.
One Day Of Ramadan Due To Traveling. So In Shawwal
I Fast One Day With The Intention Of Making Up For The Missed
Day Of Ramadan.
Plus It'S A Day From The Six Days Of Shawwal.
The Answer Is No, You Cannot Combine Such Intentions.
You Have To Fulfill Fasting Of Ramadan Entirely Without A
Combination Of Intentions.
Then You Fast The Six Days Alone And Separately. Do I Have
To Fast The Six Days Of Shawwal In A Row?
The Answer Is No, You Can Break Them, One Day Here, One Day
There, One Day In The Middle, One Day At End Which Means That
You Have The Option Even To Combine The Intention Of Six
Days Of Shawwal With Voluntary Fasts.
So If I Select To Fast Mondays And Thursdays With The Intention
Of The Six Days Of Shawwal, You Get Two Birds With One Stone.
If I Intend To Fast The White Days 13th, 14th And 15th Of
Shawwal With The Intention Of The Six Days Of Shawwal, This
Is No Problem.
What About If I Happen To Fast On A Saturday Alone? This Is An Issue Of Dispute.
... Authentic Opinion Is That You Should Fast A Day Before
Or A Day After Just To Be Safe Though The Hadith Of The
Prohibition Of Isolating Saturday In Fasting,
This Is Disputed Upon And The Most Authentic Opinion That
It Is Not Authentic, But Just To Be Safe Rather Than Sorry
Add To It A Day Before Or A Day After.
A Lot Of The Sisters Complain And Say That We Have So Many
Days To Make Up Of Ramadan,
And We Have Our Own Excuses In Shawwal And We Won'T Have
Enough Time.
So The Answer Would Be, Shaykkh Ibn Al-Uthaymeen Said May
Allah Have Mercy On His Soul,
Let Us Assume That A Woman Gave Birth In The Month Of Ramadan,
Or Let Us Assume That She Had 14 Days Of Menses In Ramadan
So She Fasted 16 Days, Shawwal Was Over First Day Of Eid.
She Started From The Second Day Of Shawwal.
And Fasted Making Up The 14 Days, On The 15th Of Shawwal
When She Finished Making Up For Ramadan,
She Got Her Menses Again For 10 12 13 Days.
And Now After She'S Pure, She Has Only Two Days To Fast From
Shawwal Remaining. We Say Fast These Two Days And In...Qada
You Can Fast The Other Four Days And This Would Make Up For
The Six Days Of Shawaalbecause You Had A Legitimate Reason And
This Is A Fatwa Of Ibn Al Uthaymeen And It'S Also The
Fatwa Of Abdul-Rahman Al-Sa'Di (Rah) Because
You Had A Legitimate Reason Those Who Are Lazy And Don'T
Fast During The Month Of Ramadan, Do Not Fast During The Month
Of Shawwal And They'Re Late And They Want To Make It Up Indul
Qada Without A Legitimate Reason.
There Is Not An Excuse For Them And This Would Not Be Legitimate.