مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٣٣٣ - INTENTION TO FAST
to make an intention to observe it. In case, therefore a person does not
perform throughout this time any act which may nullify a fast, and
makes anintention to observe a recommended fast, his fast would be in
order.
١٥٦٣. If a person goes to sleep before Azan for
dawn prayers on a day other than a day of the month of Ramazan without
making an intention of fast, and wakes upbefore midday and makes an
intention of fast, his fast is in order, whether it be an obligatory
fast or a recommended fast. But if he wakes up after midday he cannot
make anintention of observing an obligatory fast. In case, however, he
sleeps in the month of Ramazan without making an intention of fast it is
difficult that his fast may be inorder, even though he wakes up before
midday and makes an intention to observe fast.
١٥٦٤. If a person intends to observe fast other
than the fast of Ramazan, he should specify that fast, for example, he
should make an intention to offer the lapsedfast or to observe a fast to
fulfil a vow. On the other hand it is not necessary that a person
should make an intention that he is going to observe a fast of Ramazan.
Incase, therefore, a person is not aware or forgets that it is the month
of Ramazan and makes an intention to observe some other fast that fast
will be considered to be thefast of Ramazan.
١٥٦٥. If a person knows that it is the month of
Ramazan and intentionally makes an intention of observing a fast other
than the fast of the month of Ramazan hisfast will.not, on the basis of
obligatory precaution, be reckoned either a fast of the month of Ramazan
or the fast for which he made the intention.
١٥٦٦. If, for example, a person observes fast
with the intention of the fast of the first day of the month and
understands later that it was the second or third ofthe month, his fast
is in order.
١٥٦٧. If a person makes an intention before the Azan for dawn prayers to observe a fast and then becomes unconscious and