INTEGRALS OF FASTING

The integrals of fasting are two:
1. Each night to make the intention to fast the following day
2. To abstain from sexual intercourse, masturbation, and inserting anything with a volume into the head or the body cavity through an open inlet, excluding one’s pure, tahir saliva while still inside the mouth during the time from the dawn until the sunset. Making the intention at night to fast the following day means to have the intention to fast in one’s heart during the night preceding the fasting day, i.e., after the sunset and before the dawn of the following day.