{"id":1708,"date":"2019-07-08T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2019-07-08T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:10:50","slug":"is-it-permissible-to-fast-on-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Is it permissible to fast on Fridays?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Is it permissible to fast on Fridays?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Dear mufti Saab, I was told that to fast on Fridays is makrooh, please advise regarding the Shawwal fast, will it still be makrooh?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is permissible to fast on a Friday only. It is not Makrooh (disliked to do so). However, one should not regard fasting on a Friday to be compulsory. <strong>(Badaai\u2019-u-Sanaai\u2019 2\/79)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One may observe the fasts of Shawwal consecutively or individually. In doing so, a person will be observing the fasts of Shawwal on a Friday as well. This is permissible and will not have a negative effect on the fasts in any way.<\/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>Is it permissible to fast on Fridays?\u00a0 Q. Dear mufti Saab, I was told that to fast on Fridays is makrooh, please advise regarding the Shawwal<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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}