Dr. Zakir: if a person starts to travel midday or in the afternoon and if he is in the hometown till afternoon it is fardh for him to keep the fast atleast till that time. Only time a traveler is permitted to break the fast is when he leaves the hometown if he decides that he is going to leave in the afternoon and it’s not possible that he does not fast in the morning he has to fast in the morning because there can be change of plan if he decides in the afternoon he may change his plan so then it will be a sin on him. So if a person who is traveling the only time he will break the fast is when he leaves the city limits
Yusuf Chambers: I see…
Dr. Zakir: Until he hasn’t left he should not break, so if he leaves the city limits in the afternoon he is permitted to break, it is not that he should break but he feels there’s not hardship he can continues fasting and complete his fast it’s optional
Yusuf Chambers: Okay excellent. Next question is from one of our viewers who is a pilot and he considered himself to be in a perpetual state of traveling every day he is traveling on the plane… long distances and umm.. he is asking, is he exempted therefore from all fasts?
Dr. Zakir: If a persons profession is such that he is a pilot or if he is a sailor and he has to travel and if he leaves his hometown and goes on a way so but natural he is considered as a traveler he is exempted from fasting but he has to make up his fast before the next of Ramadhaan. So if he travels a lot then he’ll have to fast in the holidays, whatever holidays he gets and when he’s stationed in hometown. So if he does not want to fast he is exempted because he is considered as a traveler but he’ll have to make up the fast as soon as possible before the next Ramadhaan unless he is traveling on a very long flight maybe from India to New York which is more than twelve hours but if the flight is a short flight, I don’t think so there’ll be problem.
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