In Islam fasting is obligatory on
everyone who reaches the legal age of maturity – but this is not
enough because there are other points to be cared about which are
considered as conditions for achieving fasting without attaching
harm and mischief to man. Of these stipulations are the
following:
1-The fasting one must be a Moslem
and whoever enters Islam recently, fasting drops off him with
regard to the previous years.
2- Fasting is obligatory on the
youth who reaches maturity age and non-obligatory on the person
below maturity stage or age
3-Fasting is to be declined from a
person who frequently gets fainted or that who has a defective
mind so, a madman is also not to be included in
fasting.
4-Fasting demands the female to be
pure from menstruation and any other state which causes her to be
impure during daytime on which she is fasting.
5-The fasting one ought to be at
home and not, on travel.
6-The fasting one ought not to be
afflicted with a disease which is detrimental to fasting.