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Summary
A question about cooking for someone who is not fasting in Ramadan, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that cooking for someone who is not fasting without an excuse is forbidden because it is helping in wrongdoing. 1
The question
The questioner asked about cooking food for someone who is not fasting in Ramadan. 1
The answer
The Department answered that it is forbidden to cook for someone who is not fasting in Ramadan without an excuse, because it helps in wrongdoing, and helping in wrongdoing is itself wrongdoing. 1 It cited the verse forbidding cooperation in sin and aggression in Surat al-Ma'ida 5:2. 1
About this record
Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4228, dated 12 February 2026. 1 The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.
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Sources
- Jordan's General Iftaa Department (aliftaa.jo) , fatwa 4228
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islam.museum contributors. “Cooking for someone who is not fasting in Ramadan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/fatwa-aliftaa-jo-cooking-for-someone-not-fasting-in-ramadan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.