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Summary
A question about whether school exams are an excuse to break the fast in Ramadan, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that school and university exams are not an excuse that permits breaking the fast. 1
The question
The questioner asked whether school exams count as an excuse permitting one to break the fast in Ramadan. 1
The answer
The Department answered that school and university exams do not count as an excuse permitting one to break the fast, because most students sit their exams while fasting without hardship beyond the ordinary. 1 It said that fasting does not conflict with preparing for exams, and that a Muslim draws on acts of obedience for help with the tasks of this world and the next. 1
About this record
Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4105, dated 26 January 2026. 1 The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.
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Wearing an appetite-suppressing or nicotine patch while fasting· Breaking the fast for people in hard physical work· Completing thirty days of fasting, then moving to a country still fasting· Cooking for someone who is not fasting in Ramadan· Endoscopy during the day in Ramadan· Enemas and suppositories while fasting· Eye drops while fasting· Fasting twenty-eight days, then moving to a country celebrating Eid
Sources
- Jordan's General Iftaa Department (aliftaa.jo) , fatwa 4105
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islam.museum contributors. “Are exams an excuse to break the fast in Ramadan?”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/fatwa-aliftaa-jo-are-school-exams-an-excuse-to-break-the-fast/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.