Fasting the six days of Shawwal while having missed days of Ramadan to make up

The questioner:
If he has some missed days of Ramadan to make up, Shaykh?

The Shaykh:
This is a matter of scholarly disagreement. Some scholars say that one who has missed days to make up cannot validly fast in Shawwal until he completes the make-up fasts. Other scholars say this falls under the category of voluntary worship, and since the make-up fasts have a wide time frame, and if the obligatory act has a wide time frame, it is permissible to perform voluntary acts before it, just as one performs voluntary prayers before the five obligatory prayers. This is of that nature. The issue is one of disagreement, and the safest course is for a person to complete the make-up fasts he owes and then fast the six days of Shawwal, because the apparent meaning of the statement "he fasted Ramadan"

The presenter:
is complete.

The Shaykh:
[referring to] the six days of Shawwal, is that he must have fasted Ramadan in its entirety. So if he has missed days from it, it is not true to say that he fasted Ramadan. Yes.