The Fiqh of Fasting
(Al Balagh Online Course)
The Fiqh of Fasting
Duration: | 5 Weeks |
Starting Date: | Self-paced Instructor Guided |
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Effort: | 2 Hours / Week |
Program: | Online Course |
Prerequisite: | None |
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Language | English |
Mode: | Online (2 Live Sessions) |
Video Recordings: | Yes |
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Fees: | Free |
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Main Modules

1. Maximizing Productivity and Spirituality in Ramadan
- What is Fasting?
- Spirituality of Fasting
- Instructions from the Quran and Hadith
- History of Fasting
- How to be productive in Ramadhan
- How to achieve Taqwa?

2. The Fiqh of Ramadan Prayer Timings and Moon Sighting
- Timings of Fasting (18 degrees and 15 Degrees)
- Summer Fasts and Prayer timings
- Quran and Hadith on moonsighting
- Science and moonsighting
- Unity or Disunity
- Dealing with differences in the family
- Controversies of Moon Sightings and Prayer Timings

3. The Medical Fiqh of Fasting
- Medical Concessions for breaking Fast
- Principles and Criteria of breaking Fast
- The Fiqh of Fasting for diabetic patients
- The Fiqh of Fasting for pregnant and menstruating women
- Medical procedures and treatments invalidating the Fast

4. The Fiqh of Penalties and The Fiqh of Tarawih In Ramadan
- Principles of Qadha
- Principles of Kaffarah
- Controversies of Tarawih
- Taraweeh 8 or 20 rakats?
- The Essentials of Fiqh of Taraweeh Prayer

5. A Ramadan Guide to the Traveller and I’tikaf
- Rulings of Fasting travellers
- Breakers and non-Breakers of I’tikaf
- I’tikaf in a Musallah
- Women performing I’tikaf
Modules
Allah says in Quran: “O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous.”
~ [Quran, 2: 183]
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The Final Exam will be held at the end of the course and will be a graded and timed exam.
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