By Sheikh 'Abdulazîz Ar-Râjhî (Great scholar and Lecturer at the Islamic University of Riyadh)

Fasting is full of obligatory and recommended rules and etiquette that every fasting person must know in order to properly observe this glorious worship which is the fourth pillar of Islam.

Sheikh Ar-Râjhî offers the reader some of them in thirty points.

A must read...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD - 3 -
1) FAST AS A PRECAUTION BEFORE THE MONTH OF RAMADAN - 4 -
2) WHEN SHOULD THE INTENTION BE FORMULATED? - 5 -
3) EATING OR DRINKING DELIBERATELY DURING RAMADAN - 6 -
4) EATING BY FORGETTING DURING RAMADAN - 7 -
5) HAVING CARNAL INTERCOURSE DURING THE DAYS OF RAMADAN - 8 -
6) SLEEPING OR LOSSING CONSCIOUSNESS FOR THE WHOLE DAY - 12 -
7) INVOLUNTARY EJACULATION - 13 -
8) REMAIN IN A STATE OF MAJOR IMPURITY UNTIL SUNRISE - 13 -
9) THE TRAVELER'S YOUTH - 15 -
10) THE FAST OF THE SICK PERSON - 16 -
11) BLAMEFUL AND FORBIDDEN BEHAVIOURS DURING RAMADAN - 18 -
12) HURRY UP THE BREAKING OF THE FAST - 20 -
13) THE LATE NIGHT MEAL (CALLED SAHUR) - 22 -
14) MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS: WHAT IS PERMITTED AND WHAT IS NOT - 24 -
15) WHEN YOU SWALLOW SOMETHING UNINTENTIONALLY - 27 -
16) EATING WHEN YOU DOUBT THE APPEARANCE OF DAWN - 28 -
17) WHAT TO DO IF YOU SEE SOMEONE EATING OUT OF FORGET? - 29 -
18) THE FAST OF THE INCURABLY ILL AND THE ELDERLY - 30 -
19) CAN WE WASH OR POUR WATER ON OUR HEAD WHILE FASTING? - 31 -
20) HOW TO RINSE YOUR MOUTH AND SUCKING WATER THROUGH YOUR NOSE? CAN YOU PUT DROPS AND USE “KUHUL”? - 32 -
21) THE STATUS OF THINGS COMPARABLE TO FOOD AND DRINK - 34 -
22) BREATHE INCENSE - 35 -
23) VOMITING WHILE FASTING - 36 -
24) THE USE OF “SIWAK” DURING FASTING - 37 -
25) HE WHO APOSTASES WHILE FASTING - 39 -
26) HE WHO DETERMINES THE FIRM INTENTION TO EAT DURING THE DAY - 40 -
27) THE YOUNG WOMAN DURING MENSTRUAL PERIOD - 42 -
28) THE STATUS OF MEDICAL BLEEDING (CALLED “HIJAMAH”) DURING FASTING - 46 -
29) WHAT TO DO IF WE REALIZE AFTERWARDS THAT RAMADAN HAS STARTED? - 50 -
30) HE WHO DIES DURING RAMADAN - 55 -