A New Muslim Wants To Fast In Secret: A Girl Who Has Embraced Islam Recently - Her Ramadan
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Ramadan
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Living Shariah
I have a friend (girl)who has embraced islam
recently.The conversion matter needs to be kept
confidential for sometime.she has expressed sincere
desire to fast,but as she is living in a hostel she
would find it extremely difficult to conceal her
fasting from other friends.she is in a dillema.I
REQUEST YOU TO SUGGEST AS TO WHAT SHE NEEDS TO DO
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES MENTIONED ABOVE.
Praise be to Allaah.
We congratulate our sister for entering Islam and we
ask Allaah to make her steadfast in adhering to His
religion and to cause her to die as a Muslim, and to
keep her on the straight path.
We advise our sister to avoid – as much as possible –
places in which Allaah is disobeyed. We understand
from the question that she is studying in a mixed
place, and living in a mixed hostel. This involves sin
and danger to her and to her religious commitment.
Muslim sisters have to explain to her, in the best
manner, the ruling on her situation and the dangers it
poses to her, and advise her that she should leave if
possible, and so long as that will not put her in an
even worse situation.
Secondly:
It is not permissible for you to take girls as
friends, or for her to take men as friends.
Relationships between men and women are governed by
Islamic sharee'ah, and sharee'ah does not give men and
women the freedom to make friends with one another,
because that opens the door to a great deal of evil.
This is one of the traps of the Shaytaan by means of
which he tricks people and makes them commit immoral
actions such as shaking hands with them, being alone
with them and things that are more serious than that.
Thirdly:
With regard to her fasting: she has to fast and it is
not permissible for her not to fast. If she is among
other students that is easier than if she was among
her family and relatives. She can make the people
think that she is not fasting by carrying a glass of
juice – for example – and let them think that she is
drinking it, or she can say that she is sick and mean
thereby that she is sick at heart because of what
people do, as Ibraaheem (peace be upon him) said: "I
am sick" – or some other kind of permissible trick.
She has to fear Allaah and obey Him as much as she
can, and whoever fears and obeys Allaah, He will give
him (or her) a way out.
We ask Allaah to grant her strength.
And Allaah knows best.
Ramadan Team
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