Confusion Regarding A Supplication (Dua) of Holding Fast

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Re: Confusion Regarding A Supplication (Dua) of Holding Fast

@psyah

Anyone who gives something a classification other than what is meant for it then that is bid’a …

If people are calling the statement of this phrase bid’a purely because it is not in hadith then many things we do become bid’a - so they who call it a bid’a are themselves in danger of commiting a bid’a … Now here is why this is not bid’a.

1. This phrase is not a du’a …
2. it translates to this … "I swear an intention that tomorrow is a fast from the month of Ramadan

It is a statement of intention.

I have actually been reading this since childhood …

Niyah of the fast is a required condition of fasting if you read fiqh of sayyam you will see this … Niyah as you all know can be done in any language so long as you understand the statement of niyah … In fact niyah can be done with the heart and no statement is even necessary, however there is no harm in making intention with a vocalised statement.

If it is true that this is not found in the ahadith at all then reciting this statement with the belief that it is a Sunnah makes it bid’a … But if it is recited to articulate an intention without believing it is a Sunnah then there can be nothing but good in having it … as it facilitates the niyah which is required for the fast.

first of all thanks for replying :k:, secondly what i understand from all above is that its not a dua, one can make fast by just intention and if we consider reading that what we knew was dua of starting and ending our fast as a must like without reading it our fast will not start nor end (this is what i was taught) then i twill be surely bid’a, right.

few people also argued there is no such thing as 3 ashra of ramzan, 1- rehmat, 2-magfrat, 3-nijat can you please tell if this is true or not