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QUESTION 30
Does (impermissible) backbiting break one’s fast?
Backbiting (whether it is permissible or impermissible) does not break your fast.
Backbiting is mentioning something about your brother that he dislikes, based
on the statement of Allaah (ﷻ):
وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا
…And do not backbite one another.
(Al Hujuraat, 49:12)
The same ruling applies to slandering, revilement, abuse, and lying. These do not break one’s fast. However, they are all sins, so caution needs to be taken and these acts must be avoided.
These acts wound and weaken the fast based on the statement of the Prophet (ﷺ):
“Whoever does not leave false speech and acting upon it and ignorance, Allaah does not need him to leave his food or drink”
(Al-Bukhārī, 1903; 6085, narrated by Abī Hurayrah)
Also, he stated (ﷺ):
“Fasting is a shield. When any one of you is fasting on a day, he should neither indulge in obscene language nor raise his voice; or if anyone reviles him or tries to quarrel with him, he should say: ‘I am fasting.’”
There are many narrations about this issue.
هذا وصلى الله وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين
See 30 Questions and Answers on Fasting in Ramadaan by ‘Allāmah Abdul-‘Azīz Ibn Bāz, translated by ‘Abi ‘Abdir-Raḥmān Uways Onwordi at-Taweel
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