What is the ruling for someone who, while praying Isha in Ramadan, remembers that they did not make the intention to fast, knowing that if they were to interrupt the prayer to make the intention to fast, its time would expire with the rising of dawn, and if they were to complete the prayer, the time for making the intention to fast would expire? Is it permissible for them to invalidate one of them, or should they make the intention to fast with their heart while in prayer?
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Uttering the intention for acts of worship is an innovation (bid'ah), and the place of intention is the heart. So, whoever brings to mind in his heart the intention to fast the following day of Ramadan has indeed made the intention, even if he forms the intention during prayer, though it is better for a Muslim not to be preoccupied with anything other than prayer while performing it.
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