DDHK. ORG – Fasting in the month of Ramadan, mandatory law for Muslims. Wherever you are, it is obligatory to fast unless you are sick, not yet mature, and without any sense. But what if the employer prohibits fasting? Check this out. Someone in a forced condition who cannot perform his worship properly gets certain relief in carrying it out or suspending its implementation Imam Nawawi wrote in al-Arba'in, the 39th hadith that the Prophet said;
Amen
"Indeed, Allah forgives my people who are wrong, forget and those who are forced to"[1]
There are similarities between people who are forced to break their fast and people who are sick, as well as travelers in fasting, namely elements masyaqqah or the difficulties they experience that make the worship they do not carry out normally.
Therefore, an employee who is forced by his employer to break his fast and not fast, and receives a threat to his life or source of income at that time, he can make up the abandoned fast at another time while trying to find other sources of income where he can calmly carry out his worship.
In al-Mawsu'ah al-Fiqhiyyah al-Kuwaitiyyah it is stated;
مَذْهَبُ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ وَالْمَالِكِيَّةِ، أَنَّ مَنْ أُكْرَهَ عَلَى الْفِطْرِ فَأُفْطِرَ قَضَى
"In the Hanafiyyah and Malikiyyah schools of thought, if someone is forced to break their fast and then follows them, then they have to make up the fast at another time."
However, he still has to make the intention every night of Ramadan with the slightest presumption that after dawn he can fast as usual, because it is possible that day he will be able to fast in the absence of anything preventing him from fasting so he still has to carry out this obligation. Allah knows best. [DDHK News]
