{"id":2002,"date":"2019-09-21T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:56:30","slug":"is-it-prohibited-to-fast-3-days-after-eid-ul-fitr-in-keeping-the-fasts-of-shawwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Is it prohibited to fast 3 days after Eid-ul-Fitr in keeping the fasts of Shawwal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Is it prohibited to fast 3 days after Eid-ul-Fitr in keeping the fasts of Shawwal?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Alot of people say that we cannot keep the shawwal fasts from the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> of Shawaal as Eid is for 3 days, please advise? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> It is forbidden to fast on five days in the Islamic calendar i.e. Eid-ul-Fitr (the first of Shawwal)<em>, <\/em>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><\/p>\n<p>The prohibition of fasting on the three days of Tashreeq (three days after Eid-ul-Adha-11-12-13 of Zul-Hijjah) refers to fasting three days after Eid-ul-Adha (the tenth of Zul-Hijjah). It does not refer to fasting three days after Eid-ul-Fitr (the first of Shawwal). Hence, it is permissible to fast immediately after Eid-ul-Fitr (the first of Shawwal) even if it is three days after Eid-ul-Fitr (the first of Shawwal).<\/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 prohibited to fast 3 days after Eid-ul-Fitr in keeping the fasts of Shawwal? Q. Alot of people say that we cannot keep 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":[56,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saum","category-udhiyyah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}