7- If a saim while rinsing his mouth with water for wudu of...

7- If a saim while rinsing his mouth with water for wudu of salat al-wajibah or mustahabbah or not for salat and the water is inattentively swallowed, what is the ruling? A: In the given question, this would not invalidate his sawm. When I was fasting, my mother forced me to eat or drink. Did it invalidate my fast? A: Eating and drinking invalidates fast, even if it is done at the request or insistence of someone.

If something is forced into the mouth of someone fasting, or his head is forcefully submerged in water, does it invalidate the fast? What if one is coerced to break his/her fast, and he/she does it to avoid danger, for instance if he/she is told: If you do not eat, we will hurt you or your property. Is his/her fast valid? A: Forcing food into someone''s month without his consent does not invalidate his/her fast and neither does submerging his/her head in water.

However, if one breaks the fast himself when forced or threatened by someone, the fasting becomes void. While suffering from a cold, some mucus gathered in my mouth and I swallowed it instead of spitting it out. Was my fast valid?

Also, once, while staying for some days with one of my relatives during the blessed month of Ramadan as I had a cold, and moreover felt shy to perform major ablution for the state of major impurity [ghusl al-janabah], so I did dry ablution [tayammum] instead, which I did not perform until some time before noon. This happened for several days. Were my fasts for those days valid? If not, do I have to pay the kaffarah as well?

A: Swallowing the mucus does not make one liable to anything, though as obligatory precaution one should perform qada of that fast if it is done after the mucus enters the mouth. As for not performing ghusl al-janabah before dawn, if the tayammum was done because of some legal excuse or done at the last moment due to shortness of time, then your fasting is valid; otherwise your fasts for those days are void. Previous…