Completing thirty days of fasting, then moving to a country still fasting

A question about completing thirty days of fasting, then moving to a country still fasting, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that he joins them in fasting the end of the month and must refrain with them even if he has completed thirty days, because he has become one of them. ¹

The questioner asked about someone who fasted thirty days in his own country and then moved to a country whose people were still fasting. ¹

The Department answered that someone who completed the fast in his country and then travelled to another country and found its people fasting joins them in fasting the end of the month. ¹ It said he must refrain from eating with them even if he has completed thirty days, and even though his own country has celebrated Eid, because he has become one of them. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4216, dated 10 February 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 ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.