The conditions necessary in order for ones fast to be acceptable:
- Islam – The person has to be Muslim during the time of the fast.
- Sound Intellect – The person has to be of sound mind all throughout the day of fasting.
- Being free from menses and post natal bleeding – This too has to be throughout the whole day of the fast.
- The knowledge of the permissability of fasting that day – One has to be sure that the day they will be fasting is from those days that fasting has been legislatively permitted, and not forbidden.
