Imam Nasser Mohammad Al-Yemeni

15 - 09 - 1432 AH
15 - 08 - 2011 AD
08:50 am
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Is makeup, perfume, applying kuhl on the eyelids and smelling incense break the fast of the fasting one?


In the name of Allah the All Merciful, the Most Merciful, forgiveness and peace be upon the enlightening beacon Mohammad and his pure family and all the Muslims, after this..

O community of the questioners about the makeup, perfume, applying kuhl on the eyelids and smelling the incense, does it break the fast of the fasting one? Then we reply to you by the Truth and we say: First a reply on the issue of the perfume and the incense;
I surely do not find in Allah’s Book that Allah ordered the fasting ones to fast from the sense of smell; but from the sense of taste and to go in to women.

Confirming with the word of Allah the Most High: {It is made lawful for you to go in to your wives on the night of the fast. They are an apparel for you and you are an apparel for them. Allah knows that you acted unjustly to yourselves, so He turned to you in mercy and removed (the burden) from you. So now be in contact with them and seek what Allah has ordained for you, and eat and drink until the whiteness of the day becomes distinct from the blackness of the night at dawn, then complete the fast till nightfall, and touch them not while you keep to the mosques. These are the limits of Allah, so go not near them. Thus does Allah make clear His messages for men that they may keep their duty.}Truthful Allah the Great [Al-Baqara] 2:187
{أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ الصِّيَامِ الرَّفَثُ إِلَى نِسَآئِكُمْ هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ لَّكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ لِبَاسٌ لَّهُنَّ عَلِمَ اللّهُ أَنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَخْتانُونَ أَنفُسَكُمْ فَتَابَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَعَفَا عَنكُمْ فَالآنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَابْتَغُواْ مَا كَتَبَ اللّهُ لَكُمْ وَكُلُواْ وَاشْرَبُواْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّواْ الصِّيَامَ إِلَى الَّليْلِ وَلاَ تُبَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَأَنتُمْ عَاكِفُونَ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ تِلْكَ حُدُودُ اللّهِ فَلاَ تَقْرَبُوهَا كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللّهُ آيَاتِهِ لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَّقُونَ(187)} صدق الله العظيم [البقرة].

Look at the word of Allah the Most High: {.. So now be in contact with them and seek what Allah has ordained for you, and eat and drink until the whiteness of the day becomes distinct from the blackness of the night at dawn, then complete the fast till nightfall,..}Truthful Allah the Great, so what is the intended from the word of Allah the Most High: {..then complete the fast till nightfall,..}Truthful Allah the Great? That is to say fasting is abstaining from intercourse with the wives and from eating and drinking till the night.
{فَالآنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَابْتَغُواْ مَا كَتَبَ اللّهُ لَكُمْ وَكُلُواْ وَاشْرَبُواْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ أَتِمُّواْ الصِّيَامَ إِلَى الَّليْلِ} صدق الله العظيم،
{ثُمَّ أَتِمُّواْ الصِّيَامَ إِلَى الَّليْلِ} صدق الله العظيم

And who said that Allah forbidden the fasting ones of the women the makeup and kuhl? And only that in one case and it is:
If the wife was fearing from the weakness of her husband’s piety (guarding his duty) and that if she put adornments it is then her husband might try to mate with her, so here only she should not put the makeup and kuhl in her eyes in order not to seduce her husband from his fasting.

And peace be upon the messengers, and praise be to Allah Lord of the worlds..
Your brother the Imam Mahdi Nasser Mohammad Al-Yemeni

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