Sharaf_Mohamed
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Salam,
I've been doing some research on how vows work in Islam, I'll let you know what I have found, so you can just focus on whats left.
I have discovered that vowing in general is something that should be avoided, as just planning on doing it should be enough, and you also gain little from a vow, and set yourself up off for potential sinning.
I have also found that there are several classifications for vows, some of which should be fulfilled, some of which shouldn't. However, I find the end result, regardless what type of vow, is that if you end up not fufilling the vow you must perform kafaarat yameen.
I have also found that once you break a vow, it is broken, so you only need to perform kafaarat yameen for that vow once.
However, I have 3 questions to which I could not find the answer:
1. What if you make a vow to better yourself islamically (such as vowing that you will not do a haram action) and then every time you commit this action you make that vow (or one that is similar)? If in between each vow you did not make kafaarat yameen, do you have to make it 10 times if thats how many vows you made, or just once for all your vows? And what if you don't know how many times you made this vow?
2. For kafaarat yameen, which category would I fall in. I am 17, no job, so I have no money. So for me to feed or cloth a poor person I would have to ask my parents for money, this requires nothing on my part, so I don't think this is considered making up for breaking a vow. Also, I have no idea where I'd find a slave to free. So then, I assume the only option I have left is to pray 3 consecutive days. Does this mean 3 days straight with no eating/drinking etc., or 3 days of fasting, where you can eat/drink etc. in between? (Also I don't wanna do something like say I'll wait until I have a job and can afford to feed a poor person, because that kind of looks like another vow, not to mention that no one knows when they are to die. So, if I never live to get a job, I end up not being able to make up for this broken vow, and then break the vow where I said I would make kafaarat yameen).
3. What if you know you have made vows, but now you don't remember the specifics. Or, what if you have made vows, but you don't remember that you made them. Does this mean if you break them, you are breaking them unintentionally, and you are not held accountable for them? And is there anyway to somehow "undo" all the vows you made before, as in performing kafaarat yameen. (Does that kinda wipe your slate clean, so that all your vows made before that point are kinda like they were not made?)
Thanks for any help in advance.
Assalamualaikum
I've been doing some research on how vows work in Islam, I'll let you know what I have found, so you can just focus on whats left.
I have discovered that vowing in general is something that should be avoided, as just planning on doing it should be enough, and you also gain little from a vow, and set yourself up off for potential sinning.
I have also found that there are several classifications for vows, some of which should be fulfilled, some of which shouldn't. However, I find the end result, regardless what type of vow, is that if you end up not fufilling the vow you must perform kafaarat yameen.
I have also found that once you break a vow, it is broken, so you only need to perform kafaarat yameen for that vow once.
However, I have 3 questions to which I could not find the answer:
1. What if you make a vow to better yourself islamically (such as vowing that you will not do a haram action) and then every time you commit this action you make that vow (or one that is similar)? If in between each vow you did not make kafaarat yameen, do you have to make it 10 times if thats how many vows you made, or just once for all your vows? And what if you don't know how many times you made this vow?
2. For kafaarat yameen, which category would I fall in. I am 17, no job, so I have no money. So for me to feed or cloth a poor person I would have to ask my parents for money, this requires nothing on my part, so I don't think this is considered making up for breaking a vow. Also, I have no idea where I'd find a slave to free. So then, I assume the only option I have left is to pray 3 consecutive days. Does this mean 3 days straight with no eating/drinking etc., or 3 days of fasting, where you can eat/drink etc. in between? (Also I don't wanna do something like say I'll wait until I have a job and can afford to feed a poor person, because that kind of looks like another vow, not to mention that no one knows when they are to die. So, if I never live to get a job, I end up not being able to make up for this broken vow, and then break the vow where I said I would make kafaarat yameen).
3. What if you know you have made vows, but now you don't remember the specifics. Or, what if you have made vows, but you don't remember that you made them. Does this mean if you break them, you are breaking them unintentionally, and you are not held accountable for them? And is there anyway to somehow "undo" all the vows you made before, as in performing kafaarat yameen. (Does that kinda wipe your slate clean, so that all your vows made before that point are kinda like they were not made?)
Thanks for any help in advance.
Assalamualaikum
