It Is Not Permissible For One Who Is Fasting To Insult Anyone
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Ramadan
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Living Shariah
If i fast and during fasting i swear or be mean
to someone is my fast broken?i would like to know
because my friends swear and be mean to people while
they are fasting and i would like to tell them why
they should prevent evil like swearing.
Praise be to Allaah.
Committing sins during the day in Ramadaan, such as
swearing or insulting others, does not invalidate the
fast as such, but it detracts from the reward for
fasting. These sins may take away all of the reward,
and the fasting person is left with nothing as a
result of his fast apart from hunger and thirst.
The fasting person is enjoined to guard all his
faculties against disobeying Allaah. The purpose
behind fasting is not simply to refrain from eating
and drinking, rather the purpose is to refrain from
disobeying Allaah and to achieve piety or fear of
Allaah. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"O you who believe! Observing As-Sawm (the fasting) is
prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those
before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqoon (the
pious.)"
[al-Baqarah 2:183]
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) said: "Whoever does not give up false speech and
acting upon it, Allaah has no need of his giving up
his food and drink." Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1903,
6075.
False speech includes all kinds of speech that are
haraam, such as lying, backbiting, slandering,
insulting and cursing.
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) said: "If any one of you is fasting, let him not
utter obscenities or act in an ignorant manner, and if
anyone insults him or wants to fight him, let him say,
I am fasting." Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1894; Muslim
1151.
Al-Haafiz said:
"Let him not utter obscene speech" means let him not
say any foul words.
"Let him not act in an ignorant manner" means let him
not do any of the actions done by ignorant people such
as yelling, being foolish, etc.
What is meant by this hadeeth is that he should not
react in kind, rather he should limit himself to
saying, "I am fasting."
If the fasting person is commanded not to react to one
who insults him, how can it be appropriate for him to
mistreat people or be the first to insult them?
Al-Nawawi said:
Note that the prohibition against obscene speech,
ignorant action, argument and insults on the part of
one who is fasting is not restricted only to him,
rather each of these things is forbidden in general,
but the prohibition is stronger in the case of one who
is fasting.
Al-Haakim narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be
pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Fasting
does not just mean abstaining from food and drink,
rather fasting means abstaining from idle and obscene
speech. If someone curses you or treats you in an
ignorant manner, then say, ‘I am fasting, I am
fasting.'"
Ibn Maajah (1690) said: Abu Hurayrah said: The
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) said: "It may be that the fasting person
gets nothing from his fast apart from hunger, and it
may be that the one who prays qiyaam at night may get
nothing from his qiyaam but a sleepless night."
See also Question no. 37989 concerning lying whilst
fasting.
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