SIYAM (Fasting)

CONTENTS

1.      Introduction

2.      Significance of Ramadhan

Spiritual and Moral Elements

Psychological Elements

Social Elements

Physical and Medical Elements

3.      Determination of the Beginning and End of Ramadhan

4.      Who Should Fast?

5.      Exemptions from Fasting

6.      Duration of Fasting

7.      Requirements for the Validity of Fasting

8.      Desirable Things in Fasting

9.      Things which do not Invalidate the Fast

10.  Things which Invalidate the Fast

11.  When to Make Up for Missed Fasts

12.  Death Before Making Up for Missed Fasting

13.  Fasting in Places where the Day or Night is Unusually Long

14.  Zakat-ul-Fitr

15.  Salat-ul-Eid

16.  Other Types of Fasting

17.  Other Aspects of Ramadhan

A.     Lailat-ul-Qadr

B.     I’Tikaaf

C.     Zakat-ul-Maal

      References