{"id":1659,"date":"2019-07-08T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:10:31","slug":"what-is-the-status-of-fasting-during-the-ten-days-of-zul-hijjah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"What is the status of fasting during the ten days of Zul-Hijjah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>What is the status of fasting during the ten days of Zul-Hijjah?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. What is the status of fasting during the ten days of Zul-Hijjah? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is forbidden to fast on Eid-ul-Adha (the tenth of Zul-Hijjah) and the three days of Tashreeq (three days after Eid-ul-Adha-11-12-13 of Zul-Hijjah). <strong>(Al Ikhtiyaar Li Ta\u2019leelil Mukhtaar 1\/125).<\/strong> On the contrary, it is recommended (Mustahab) to fast on the first nine days of Zul-Hijjah <strong>(Hindiyyah 1\/201) <\/strong>and more particularly, the ninth of Zul-Hijjah-the day of Arafah for pilgrims and non-pilgrims of Hajj. However, if fasting on the ninth of Zul-Hijjah weakens a pilgrim of Hajj in discharging the rituals of Hajj, it would be Makrooh (disliked) for a pilgrim of Hajj to fast on the ninth of Zul-Hijjah-the day of Arafah. <strong>(Shaami 2\/375)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The fasting on the ninth of Zul-Hijjah-the day of Arafah does not refer to the ninth of Zul-Hijjah of Saudi Arabia. It refers to the ninth of Zul-Hijjah in accordance to the moon sightings of one\u2019s own country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the status of fasting during the ten days of Zul-Hijjah? Q. What is the status of fasting during the ten days of Zul-Hijjah? A.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hajj","category-saum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}