Assalmualikum, So I’ve been getting some questions regarding sehri, practically about not waking up for sehri and if the fast is still valid. The answer is yes. Your fast is still valid if you didn’t perform sehri as long as the intention was there. However waking up for sehri is a big part of fasting. Rasulullah (SAW) said: ‘The difference between our fasting and that of the Ahlul-Kitaab (Jews and Christians) lies in our partaking of food at “Sehri” which they do not.”
Sehri means partaking of food shortly before dawn. Scholars have agreed that the time for Sehri commences after half the night has passed, and not observing it is contrary to the Sunnah. Abdullah bin Haarith (RA) reports that one of the Sahaaba said: “I once visited Rasulullah (SAW) at a time when he was busy in partaking of ‘Sehri’. Rasulullah then said: “This is a thing full of blessings, which Allah has granted you. Do not give it up.” There are many reasons for the blessedness of sehri including that the Sunnah is followed, through Sehri we differentiate ourselves from the ways of Ahlul-Kitaab, it promotes greater sincerity in Ibaadah (worship), and it aids in elimination of short temper, which normally comes about as result of hunger.
Next is the best time to wake for sehri. It was narrated that Zayd ibn Thaabit (RA) said: “We ate suhoor with the Prophet (SAW) then he went to pray.” I [the narrator] asked, “How long was there between the adhaan and suhoor?” He said, “As long as it takes to recite fifty verses.” This hadith encourages us to delay suhoor until just before Fajr. The time between should be the amount of time it takes one to to recite fifty verses of the Qur’aan at a moderate pace.
وَبِصَوْمِ غَدٍنَّوَيْتَ مِنْ شَهْرِرَمَضَانَ
Wa bi-sawmi ghadin nawaytu min shahri ramadan
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