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Should the mujaahideen who are fighting for the sake of Allaah break their fast?

Question: 106469

Are those who are fighting the enemy allowed not to fast during Ramadaan and can they make it up afterwards?.

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

If those who are fighting the kuffaar have travelled the
distance which allows them to shorten their prayers, then it is permissible
for them not to fast, but they have to make it up after Ramadaan. 

If they are not travelling because the kuffaar have attacked
them in their own land, then whoever among them is able to fast whilst
fighting is obliged to fast, and whoever is not able to combine fasting with
the duty of jihad which has become an individual obligation (fard ‘ayn) for
him is permitted not to fast, but he must make it up later on, fasting the
number of days that he did not fast in Ramadaan. End quote. 

Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas 

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