The ruling on one who is ignorant of the obligation to make up the fasts of Ramadan after breaking them due to menstruation, and does not know the number of days she broke?
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Question:
She says about herself: I am a young woman at the beginning of my age, meaning at my first breaking of the fast in Ramadan due to a valid legal excuse. Due to ignorance and negligence, I did not make up those days that I broke, and years have passed since the days I broke in that year, and I have forgotten their number. So what do you advise me to do now? May Allah reward you with good. Knowing that I have paid an amount of ten dinars for those days, which I assumed to be a specific number, so guide me. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
You are required to make up the days you broke during the days of your menses. The length of the time does not exempt you from making them up. You must make them up, and along with making them up, you must feed a poor person for each day. That means you pay the equivalent of one and a half kilograms of food for each day for delaying the making up to this extent. This fasting is a debt in your liability that must be performed, even if time has passed. As for your saying that you are ignorant of the days, it appears that the days are known by the custom of the menses that used to afflict you. This is a matter known by the days of the custom that continue with you, so you make up the number of days of the custom. As for the dinars you paid out, they do not suffice for the making up.
They also do not suffice for the feeding due to the delay, because the feeding must be given from the staple food of the country, and money is not given in its place. Yes.
She says about herself: I am a young woman at the beginning of my age, meaning at my first breaking of the fast in Ramadan due to a valid legal excuse. Due to ignorance and negligence, I did not make up those days that I broke, and years have passed since the days I broke in that year, and I have forgotten their number. So what do you advise me to do now? May Allah reward you with good. Knowing that I have paid an amount of ten dinars for those days, which I assumed to be a specific number, so guide me. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
You are required to make up the days you broke during the days of your menses. The length of the time does not exempt you from making them up. You must make them up, and along with making them up, you must feed a poor person for each day. That means you pay the equivalent of one and a half kilograms of food for each day for delaying the making up to this extent. This fasting is a debt in your liability that must be performed, even if time has passed. As for your saying that you are ignorant of the days, it appears that the days are known by the custom of the menses that used to afflict you. This is a matter known by the days of the custom that continue with you, so you make up the number of days of the custom. As for the dinars you paid out, they do not suffice for the making up.
They also do not suffice for the feeding due to the delay, because the feeding must be given from the staple food of the country, and money is not given in its place. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، حكم من تجهل وجوب قضاء رمضان إذا أفطرت بسبب الحيض، ولا تدري عدد الأيام التي أفطرت؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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