If a non-Muslim guest comes to my home during the day in Ramadan, can I give him something to e

From amongst our imams, what Imam al-Ramli has said, is that it is haram to give food to a non-Muslim who is morally responsible during the day in Ramadan, as he narrated from Al-Sharqawi in his Hashiya Sharh al-Tahrir (2:14). This is based on that fact that in our school, non-Muslims are accountable for details of the Shariah, and they will be punished in the Afterlife for leaving them. So upon this, giving them food in the day in Ramadan would be assisting them in disobedience and this is haram.

Amjad Rasheed

[Translated by Sr. Shazia Ahmad]

السؤال: إذا جاءني ضيفٌ كافرٌ في نهار رمضان ، فهل يجوز لي أن أقدم له الطعام والشراب ؟ الجواب : الذي صرح به الإمام الرملي من أئمتنا هو حرمة إطعام الكافر المكلف في نهار رمضان كما نقله عنه الشرقاوي في “حاشية شرح التحرير” (2/14) ؛ بناء على أن الكفار عندنا مخاطبون بفروع الشريعة فيعاقبون على تركها في الآخرة ؛ وعليه فيكون تقديمُ الطعام لهم في نهار رمضان من الإعانة على المعصية وهي حرام .