• Prayers & Duties >> Sawm (Fasting)

    Question ID: 9003Country: India

    Title: When i was 15 years old i didnt knew that masturbating breaks fast and it is gunah and i masturbated in roza....and i continued my roza ...now after a year i have came to know that it breaks roza....so my question is what is my punishment for this....should i have to keep 60 fasts!!!!???

    Question: When i was 15 years old i didnt knew that masturbating breaks fast and it is gunah and i masturbated in roza....and i continued my roza ...now after a year i have came to know that it breaks roza....so my question is what is my punishment for this....should i have to keep 60 fasts!!!!???

    Answer ID: 9003

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 2208/1800=B/1429)

     

    In the case mentioned above, you have to make qaza of the fasts during which you committed masturbation, but there is no kaffarah:

    ولو کان مخطئاً او مکرھا فعلیہ القضاء، وکذا اذا نظر الی امراۃ فامنی لما بینا و صار کالمتفکر اذا امنی وکالمستمنی بالکف (ھدایۃ 1:217)

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India